Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota fell just short of his goal in the New Hampshire primary.
With 95% of the vote, Mr. Phillips, who had previously said “to be in the 20s is no mean feat,'' won 19.5% of the state.
President Biden secured victory with approximately 55% of the vote.
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Congressman Dean Phillips, a Democrat from Minnesota and a 2024 presidential candidate, speaks at a primary night event in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Mel Musto/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mr. Phillips had a lucky chance heading into the second primary election. Biden voters were forced to write the president's name after the Biden campaign was unable to register him on the ballot.
More than a year ago, the president proposed a nominating calendar for the 2024 election cycle, freeing New Hampshire from its traditional lead-off first-party status and creating a more diverse state in which Black voters play a larger role in Democratic politics. It was replaced by South Carolina, a state rich in
A year ago, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) overwhelmingly approved the president's proposed calendar changes that would require New Hampshire to jump ahead of South Carolina and become the first in the Granite State to hold its primary. It respected long-standing state laws.
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President Biden. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The state is hosting an unauthorized Democratic campaign, and the president's reelection campaign announced last fall that Biden would not apply to have his name placed on New Hampshire's ballot.
Phillips said he has invested $5 million of his own money into his bid for the White House.
“It was a lot more than I intended,” he said in an interview with Fox News Digital. But he said his own investments may be starting to pay off because “grassroots donors are really starting to show up.”
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Democratic presidential candidate Congressman Dean Phillips addresses the media in Londonderry, New Hampshire. (Reuters/Leva Saldaña)
The president is a strong front-runner for the party's nomination in 2024, but polls show many Americans, including many Democrats, do not want Biden to seek a second term in the White House. .
These same polls show that voters are not excited about a likely rematch between Biden and former President Trump, the candidate whom Biden defeated in 2020.
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
