Once known as a Minnesota-nice moderate, he's infuriating House colleagues with a quixotic primary bid focused on the president's age — which polls show is a weakness.
Once known as a Minnesota-nice moderate, he’s infuriating House colleagues with a quixotic primary bid focused on the president’s age — which polls show is a weakness.
He rattled off examples of primary bids that soured voters on the party’s presidential candidates, such as the New Hampshire primary near-upset that derailed Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and fellow Democrats’ criticism of Michael Dukakis’ record on crime that resurfaced in the 1988 general election. The plainspoken Minnesotan got to Congress in 2018’s blue wave as a wealthy businessperson of Talenti Gelato and Belvedere Vodka fame, and his ability to self-fund meant he could afford — literally — to speak hard truths about his party.
What especially dumbfounds Democrats like Kuster is how little policy daylight there is between Phillips and Biden. The one major issue where Phillips diverges from Biden is Israel, which the Jewish American lawmaker is more hawkish than the president in defending. But now, his fledgling New Hampshire bid is causing Phillips to miss key votes on Israel policy.
Privately, a small number of congressional Democrats agreed that they, too, are worried about Biden’s weaknesses against Trump. Still, they see Phillips as the wrong alternative.
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