“We’re at grave risk of another Trump presidency,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.) told the Washington Post in an interview this week, saying Biden should “pass the torch, open the stage.”
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Phillips has been vocal for months about what most Democrats have hesitated to say publicly: Biden’s age and poor polling suggest he should not seek reelection. Phillips has said Biden shouldn’t run since last year.
“I’m doing this to prevent a return of Donald Trump to the White House,” Phillips said this week.
[Of course, a significant number of Republicans think that a Trump nomination will result in a second Biden term. Perhaps it would behoove both parties not to test either theory. — Ed]
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