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A Democratic member of Congress who ran a solo major in opposition to President Joe Biden is resigning.
Minnesota Consultant Dean Phillips suspended his presidential marketing campaign on Wednesday after failing to realize a lead in any of the Tremendous Tuesday major contests.
The longtime candidate introduced the termination on a broadcast of Minnesota WCCO-AM radio's “The Chad Hartman Present,” based on NBC Information.
Phillips introduced his endorsement of Biden as quickly as he left.
Phillips mentioned of the presidential marketing campaign, “I'm going to droop my marketing campaign and I'm going to help President Biden proper now as a result of the alternatives are very clear.”
The announcement got here the identical day that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley suspended her marketing campaign for the Republican nomination in opposition to former President Donald Trump.
Phillips criticized Trump in his announcement.
In keeping with NBC, he mentioned, “The choice, Donald Trump, is a really harmful, harmful man.”
“I’d simply ask and invite and encourage Haley supporters, Trump supporters, uncommitted supporters to unite for decency and integrity.”
Phillips didn’t garner vital help in any of the early major and caucus states, and couldn’t safe a single delegate.
The three-term Minnesota congressman was prepared to query Biden's probabilities of nominating Biden based mostly on his advancing age, an nearly unprecedented place for a Democratic elected official.
“At that stage of life, in the end, it’s unimaginable to prosecute the workplace of the American presidency in the best way that this nation (and) the world wants proper now,” Phillips instructed Axios forward of the New Hampshire major.
In keeping with CNN, Phillips acquired about 20 % of the vote in that contest, though his efficiency was not sufficient to safe any delegates.
President Joe Biden received the state in a landslide as a write-in candidate.
Trump received comparatively simply as anticipated, however hahaha @Marianne Williamson. Additionally, given how Dean Phillips is doing, you need to marvel how an precise established Dem would have carried out, though New Hampshire was at all times going to be weak for Biden since he's not on the poll. pic.twitter.com/Ch3zZLYZK1
– John (@john12948833) 24 January 2024
The Democratic Nationwide Committee refused to schedule any major debate, and acknowledged Biden because the occasion's de facto nominee lengthy earlier than a single vote was counted.
Phillips' departure leaves Marianne Williamson as one in every of a handful of candidates to problem the incumbent.
One other minor candidate, Jason Palmer of Baltimore, received American Samoa's Democratic major on Tremendous Tuesday, based on the Related Press.
This text initially appeared on The Western Journal.