‘No voters know me’: Dean Phillips challenges MSNBC panel over party plan to ‘coronate’ Biden

Presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) pushed back on an MSNBC panel led by Symone Sanders Townsend — former chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris — as they attempted to grill him on the heels of his decisive loss in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

Sanders, who worked on Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign, began by pointing to the numbers — Phillips took third place behind President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic challenger Marianne Williamson — and asked Phillips to explain how he could possibly hope to win a general election when he could not win the Democratic primary.

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Grateful for the invitation from @SymoneDSanders and MSNBC to discuss why Democrats must use invitation – not condemnation – and promote a new generation of common sense leaders like @GovWhitmer and @RepJeffries.

We will not succeed by coronating leaders of the past when… pic.twitter.com/4Fbavkqwyw

— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) February 4, 2024