Democrats are dismissing expectations that Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) will mount a primary challenge against President Joe Biden as “delusional.”
Phillips, a third-term congressman from Minnesota’s Minneapolis suburbs, is anticipated to announce a campaign next week, which is unlikely to secure him the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination but could embarrass Biden.
Kate deGruyter, the senior communications director for liberal think tank Third Way who was born and raised in Phillips’s congressional district, described his “presidential flirtation” as “maddening” and “delusional.”