Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said on Friday that he’s challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president because he doesn’t think Biden can win next year’s general election. “Right now, if this election was held today, President Biden would lose, and it is an existential threat to the future of the United States of America. That will not happen under my watch,” Phillips said in an interview NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker.
” Phillips told NBC that he wouldn’t run as an independent for president and encouraged other candidates running, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Cornel West, to also run for the Democratic nomination. “I will not demean the president; I will not undermine him,” the congressman said. “Whoever the Democratic nominee is, I believe it will be me.
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