Rep. Dean Phillips criticized his own party’s attempts to bypass the primaries, likening it to the dangers of the January 6 insurrection.
He expressed frustration at being excluded from ballots in Florida and North Carolina and highlighted the DNC’s actions in New Hampshire and Florida.
Phillips emphasized the lack of Democratic primary choices and the challenges faced by potential candidates. (Trending: Bombshell UFO Footage Released To The Public)
A look back at Dean Phillips' conversation with Joy Reid after the Jan. 6 insurrection. pic.twitter.com/nkuwnpVJra
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He also mentioned the switch of Robert Kennedy Jr. to independent due to similar intra-party challenges.
“How can Democrats say we’re fighting for democracy, we’re fighting to make voting easier, and then yet removing me from the ballot in Florida and North Carolina?” Phillips pressed.
“How can you say you are for free speech and protecting freedom and democracy and not even consent to doing one debate? How can you say this?” he said.
“Right now, they’re saying this to the voters in New Hampshire: that their vote doesn’t count, that this is a meaningless primary. And it’s true, by the way, Democratic voters in Florida, North Carolina, and New Hampshire — their votes don’t count because in two states, there isn’t going to be a Democratic primary, and in the other state, there is, and their votes aren’t gonna matter. And this is the United States of America.”
“I was in the House chamber on January 6. I know what an insurrection is like. I know who inspired it and who promoted it.”
“And now, frankly, Democrats are doing something to democracy that I think is just as dangerous as the insurrection because, at the end of the day, one was to prevent the counting of ballots — and right now, the Democratic Party is literally trying to prevent names from being added to ballots and people from even voting on those ballots. So that’s the truth, and they don’t want to hear it. They don’t want me to say it, but guys, man, someone’s got to listen.”
Phillips expressed disappointment in the lack of courage from others to stand up against these issues.
“Because nobody, nobody wants to go through what I’m going through right now, which is the most vicious, atrocious, aggressive attacks you can possibly imagine,” Phillips said when asked of Biden’s previous comment that there were “probably 50” Democrats who could beat Trump.
“I mean, two months ago, I was a darling in the Democratic Party, and now I’m the devil. And I knew that…I knew what I was getting into.”
“But you asked the question, why don’t others do it? Well, most people don’t want to be subjected to it; most people want to protect their image and their future and their, you know, their career.”
“And that’s why you have all these sheep in Washington, falling in line, constantly saying the same thing based on the talking points because they don’t want to do anything to hurt the next chance to be reelected,” he added, noting that “when I did this, I knew my career in Congress was done. And it is.”
“…I just wish more people had the courage to stand up right now, and I’m disappointed,” he added.
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