Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips announced his candidacy for U.S. President on Friday.
It has been only one day since Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips announced he was taking on President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination and he is already getting a pretty cold shoulder from his party.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens were among those who quickly took to social media shortly after Mr. Phillips’s announcement. The mayor denounced the Minnesota representative’s candidacy, accusing the 54-year old three-term lawmaker of “hosting an attention-seeking stunt” that he specifically said is insulting to black voters and characterized in a lengthy tweet on X as undermining the successes of the Biden-Harris administration.
“I’m not sure what he’s doing in New Hampshire today, but I know what he’s not doing: he’s not mounting a serious or meaningful bid to be President of the United States,” the mayor wrote, pointing out that Mr. Phillips is just a duplicate of President Biden, having voted in favor of his policies “100 percent of the time.”
At the same time, Mr. Phillips’s own party quickly and very publicly tied him to accepting past donations from conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s generous billionaire friend Harlan Crow.
Mr. Crow, a