Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, looked miserable Tuesday after not a single voter showed up to hear why he was running against President Biden at an outdoor coffee hour in New Hampshire's largest city. Ta.
Phillips, who polls show is Biden's most serious rival in the Jan. 23 Democratic primary, has a Dunkin' coffee on the bumper of a government repair truck outside the DoubleTree Hotel in Manchester. He was photographed sitting alone with a box on top.
Just two weeks before Election Day, when he realized no one was coming, Phillips told the assembled journalists, “Sometimes you build it and they don't show up,” to CBS News reporter Jake Rosen. . Posted in X.
Phillips spokeswoman Katie Dolan told the Post that with temperatures in the low 20s, it was too cold to hold the event outdoors, and that a small number of people showed up when lawmakers moved indoors. added.
“We met with voters this morning, but only indoors, not outdoors,” Dolan told The Post, providing a photo of him with 14 members of Congress, some of whom appear to be under voting age. Some people said it was.
Adding insult to injury, however, was the fact that Phillips' event was aimed at attracting an audience built into the venue. 2024 New England Collegiate Conference It was happening at a hotel.
According to the Eventbrite registration page, the convention exposes young people “from across the country” to the presidential primary experience and features “visits from presidential candidates, campaign staff, members of the media, and political experts.” It is said that
Mr. Phillips, 54, began his long campaign in late October by arguing that Mr. Biden, now 81, is too old and would lose to former President Donald Trump, who is seeking re-election.
New Hampshire was initially thought to be Mr. Phillips' turn, but Mr. Biden's efforts to strip the Granite State advantage in favor of South Carolina have failed, so it is officially not scheduled to be on the ballot. Instead, voters revived Biden's 2020. motion.
Mr. Biden is still running a write-in campaign in New Hampshire, and the national Democratic Party is trying to raise awareness of that fact to avoid an upset of the president, who came in fifth place in the state's 2020 primary with just 8.4% approval rating. I'm having a hard time raising it.
Other write-in candidates include “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic, a self-described “gay, gun-toting, mullet-toting redneck.” He is appealing his 21-year prison sentence and campaigning from prison to “make America exotic again.” Murder-for-hire plots and animal abuse.
In addition to Phillips on the primary ballot, there will be spiritual advisor and self-help author Marianne Williamson, and satirist Vermin Williamson, whose message is that all politicians are rats and voters should support the biggest ones. There are 20 candidates, including Supreme.
Biden maintains a large lead in New Hampshire polls, with Phillips and Williamson generally in the single digits, but recent polls have shown that Phillips has a sizable lead. As much as 21% backing.
