What Dean Phillips Really Thinks
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Minnesota Democratic Congressman and former Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips understands politics. And there’s a lot he doesn’t like about it. He dishes with Michele.
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| 0:00.0 | To answer your question very directly, yes, I was deeply dismayed. |
| 0:09.3 | Setting aside the fatherly, the paternal element of doing what Joe Biden did and that most dads would want to do, you know, the consequence of that singular decision for his son has a long tail and great consequences. |
| 0:22.7 | And I think it was a mistake. |
| 0:24.2 | I think it's a stain on his legacy. |
| 0:25.8 | I think it's going to be a stain on the Democratic Party. |
| 0:27.8 | And it's going to accelerate the erosion of trust in government. |
| 0:42.0 | Dean Phillips is a congressman, at least for a few more days. |
| 0:49.4 | You may recall that he decided not to run for re-election in Minnesota because he wanted to run for president. |
| 0:54.1 | And that was met with a lot of pushback. And I'm just putting it lightly. I mean, that was met with a lot of pushback. |
| 0:55.9 | And I'm just putting it lightly. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean, that was met with a lot of pushback. |
| 1:03.8 | So Dean Phillips, this guy comes out and says, look, Biden can't win. |
| 1:05.4 | He's not fit to serve. |
| 1:06.9 | He's not fit to run. |
| 1:08.7 | He's not fit to be in the White House. We've got to accept that. |
| 1:10.1 | And we've got to put some other candidates up. |
| 1:12.3 | So I'll run. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, that took some guts and he paid a very heavy price. |
| 1:17.8 | He's going to share that story with us. |
| 1:19.6 | He's going to tell us what he's going to do and not do in the future. |
| 1:23.7 | And we're going to talk about some very important news of the day, as you may have guessed. |
| 1:28.3 | That's all coming up with Dean Phillips next. |
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