A unknown Democratic House member is the next to jump into the Democratic 2024 Presidential nomination sweepstakes….
Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips will have a YUGE mountain to climb…..
(The media is sure to help him to get some sort of Democratic horse race excitement going)
Biden maybe looked as old and cranky ….
But Democrats WILL vote for him a second time over Trump or any other Republican to NOT have the Trump Era revisit the US government….
The Axios post below reveals that Biden’s campaign is non-existent in South Carolina , the new first Democratic Presidential primary state vote coming in just THREE months…..
Hmmmm?
Phillips has voted WITH President Biden 100% of the time…..
President Biden‘s re-election campaign responded with a shrug Friday as Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips jumped into the presidential race.
Why it matters: Polls indicate most Democrats prefer that Biden not run again — but the president’s campaign is so confident he’ll be the party’s nominee that it’s essentially ignoring Phillips and focusing on swing states likely to decide the 2024 election.
- A sign of that confidence: Biden pushed for South Carolina to hold the first Democratic contest of the primary season with delegates at stake, but his campaign has no staff there and is relying on the state party in the Feb. 3 primary.
- Phillips — whose run for president will focus on the 80-year-old Biden’s electability — tried to talk with Biden twice in recent weeks, but the White House told him the president was unavailable.
What they’re saying: Biden won the state big in the 2020 primary, but some South Carolina Democrats worry that his team is too confident about his standing in the state for the 2024 primary.
- “The first rule of politics: Don’t take anything for granted,” Trav Robertson, chair of the state’s Democratic Party from 2017 until earlier this year, told Axios.
- “We recognize that other states will be a priority in the general election, but the people in SC still need to see some semblance of a campaign staff, or the narrative that his campaign is taking South Carolina for granted will take root,” Robertson added.
- Christale Spain, the new chair of the state’s Democratic Party, said the state party is in “constant contact” with Biden’s campaign: “I can’t divulge their strategy but they are working, and not taking South Carolina for granted.”….
image…Forbes