U.S. congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota will launch a long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, seizing on Biden's lackluster approval ratings and voter wariness over his age, according to two people familiar with his plans.
The 54-year-old millionaire businessman and co-founder of a gelato company is expected to hold an event outside New Hampshire's Statehouse in Concord on Friday and file for its primary inside the building in the secretary of state's office before embarking on a bus tour.
Even so, Democrats are wary of any challenge to Biden that could dent the party's chances against likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. He added, "I don't understand the political calculus on this. I don't understand the how, I don't even understand his why. It doesn't make any sense to me that he would spend all of this political capital, frankly, all of his political capital, on a wild goose chase that isn't going to result in him being the president of the United States.
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