{ Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said Sunday he wants President Biden to stand down on his 2024 Democratic presidential primary bid to give another Democrat a shot at the White House.

Why it matters: Phillips has previously called on others to challenge Biden in the 2024 Democratic nomination but is not committing himself to running as of yet.

  • “I would like to see Joe Biden, a wonderful and remarkable man, pass the torch — cement this extraordinary legacy,” Phillips said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
  • “And by the way, this is not how everybody thinks, but I do believe the majority wants to move on,” he added.
  • Phillips said his views on Biden stepping down are not based on the president’s age but rather “how people feel.”

By the numbers: 56% of U.S. adults said they had an unfavorable opinion of Biden, compared to just 32% of those with favoring opinions on the president, according to a CNN poll in June.

  • Prospective voters in the CNN poll also had an unfavorable view of former President Donald Trump at 59%.
  • An April poll from NBC News revealed that 70% of Americans think Biden should not seek another term. Of those responses, 51% came from Democrats.
  • 60% of those polled by NBC also thought Trump shouldn’t run for president again. Of those, a third identified themselves as Republican voters.
  • “Joe Biden right now is down seven points in the four swing states that will decide the next election,” said Phillips, who also pointed to Biden’s historically low approval numbers.
  • Phillips added that he’s not saying Biden is “not up to a second term,” but that the numbers reflect that Americans want change and a new Democratic candidate. }
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    no. Phillips has no chance.
    He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. Biden is the compromise canidate nobody likes but everybody voted for precisely because he’s milquetoast and soooo much better than the turnips the pubies put forward

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      1 year ago

      everybody voted for precisely because he’s milquetoast

      I voted for him in spite of him being milquetoast.

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        1 year ago

        well, kinda, yeah. My point is he wasn’t particularly offensive to anyone (which is exactly why he was chosen as Obama’s VP… you don’t pick controversial VP’s, generally.) which is exactly the reason he became the nominee in 2020, and will be again.