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Phillips on Threats to Democracy

Who? Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is the sole Democratic candidate – so far – challenging President Biden’s re-nomination bid now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone indy. On NBC’s Meet the Press NOW last Thursday, Phillips softened criticism from a week earlier when he told an NBC News reporter that Biden is a “threat” to American democracy.

“The president is not a threat to democracy,” he said in his claw-back last week, “but running and suppressing other candidates is a threat, when you are behind in the polls, like he is.

“I just want to make it clear he is not a threat,” Phillips said.

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