In 2011, I hosted then VP Biden at my home. Most notable was his empathy and kindness to my daughters and the catering staff, with whom he sat and had ice cream (surprise-surprise). His decency and wisdom were rarities in politics then, and even more so today.
Over a decade
I’m attacked for being honest and saying the quiet part out loud - the part DC insiders only do in private.
I admire our President. I voted for him and campaigned for him. He has visited my home and been gracious to my family and our country.
But shame on all of you pretending
As
@RepErikPaulsen
hides from voters and misrepresents his record and the truth, here's a little dose of humor based on fact: a Congressman who avoids voters at all costs, is the 6th biggest taker of PAC money in Congress and is bought and sold by special interests.
#Truth
#MN03
I never imagined seeing the flag of a terror group holding eight Americans hostage for 292 days waved in the streets of our nation’s Capitol.
Over a million Americans have given their lives to protect that right - including my own father.
Still waiting for someone to explain how this is different than Iran’s tactics to guarantee the outcome of elections.
Not a single state GOP party has moved to make Trump the only candidate on the ballot.
Utter hypocrisy.
Four state Democratic parties have moved to make Biden the only candidate on the Democratic primary ballot for 2024
Florida
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Tennessee
I’ve sat at tables with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and the contrasts in character & competency are graphic.
If the qualifying measures of a American President are integrity, experience, and empathy, there’s simply no comparison.
Joe Biden is the only bridge to a bright future.
The Democrats condemning my friendly visits with Trump supporters outside his rally are the same people coronating Joe Biden and questioning why America is so red.
That’s why we need a candidate who leads with invitation, not condemnation, of fellow Americans. 🇺🇸
Trump: When we gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom… It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor— it’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many
67% of young people believe those of the Jewish faith, just .2% of the world population, are “oppressors”.
Something very wrong and very dangerous is happening in our high schools and colleges.
I’ve travelled to our southern border twice to bear witness.
It’s an unmitigated and inexcusable human crisis, national security crisis, and now constitutional crisis - all preventable with competent leadership.
As President, I’ll do so immediately and effectively.
A little known Congressman from Minnesota built a scrappy campaign with a passionate team just 10 weeks ago, and tonight earned 21% against an incumbent President with a 50 year head-start and the full force of a party behind him.
We’re just getting started! See y’all in South
Don’t allow the angertainment industry to have us believe we’re irreparably divided.
I’m working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to lead a national re-set, reduce toxicity, and restore mutual respect.
We must save America. Will you join us? 🇺🇸
Trump agreeing to debate Biden before the Democratic convention and selecting JD Vance as his running mate will likely go down as two of the most consequential unforced errors in modern political history.
.
@JoeBiden
,
@KamalaHarris
, every VP candidate, and a wide majority of Democrats support Israel.
But for some reason,
@JoshShapiroPA
’s support is problematic to certain leftists.
Such anti-semitism cannot be granted safe haven in any party. Period.
This is shameful and absolutely untrue.
The State of New Hampshire manages its elections with great integrity and efficiency, and Joe Biden won the NH Democratic primary election last evening fair and square.
~150 Christian-majority nations, ~50 Muslim-majority nations, almost each one established through bloodshed and displacement - including our own.
But it’s the 1 Jewish-majority nation, a multi-cultural democracy constantly under attack by its neighbors, that protestors wish to
Conduct a straw poll among Dem delegates of potential candidates.
Invite
@KamalaHarris
and the top three other vote getters to a series of four, televised town halls w/audiences of delegates before voting at the convention.
Transparent, competitive, & as Jim Clyburn argued - a
The morning after the 2016 election, I promised my daughters I’d do something. Today, they drove me to the airport for my flight to Washington to become a United States Congressman. Anything is possible.
I am running for President as a Democrat in 2024.
My campaign will be about four main things.
First and foremost, it will be about the economy. We have to make life more affordable for the middle class, which is the issue that voters care about most. We need to bring down the
BREAKING: Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is running for president, challenging Pres. Biden in the Democratic primary race.
He tells
@costareports
and
@CBSMornings
he won't "be quiet" as polling numbers "are so clearly saying that we’re going to be facing an emergency next November.”
Remember the scene in Hamilton when he tries to dissuade Washington from giving-up power?
“They will say you’re weak,” exclaims Hamilton.
“No. We’ll show them we’re strong,” Washington calmly replies. “We’ll teach them how to say goodbye.”
The Democratic National Committee actively obstructs Democrats and Independents from ballot access - bleeding campaigns dry with lawsuits and absurd “signature requirements”.
I’ve had to spend ~$2m to successfully overcome their barriers in 40+ states so far.
Democrats should
I’ve long advocated for Palestinian self-determination and statehood, and will continue to do so.
But Spain, Norway, and Ireland’s premature recognition of a state is a gift to Hamas and a message to terrorists around the world that abhorrent tactics work.
Shameful.
I’m thrilled by reports that my friend and governor will be America’s next Vice President.
Tim is a common-sense, competent, and experienced leader whose refreshing normal-ness will be a great contrast to the tiresome weirdness. Let’s go!
I’m happy to stand-in for President Biden and do the Super Bowl interview.
I also hold press conferences.
I debate.
I face voters.
I face the press.
And I face the future.
We have 8 year term limits for presidents, so why not term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court?
Eighteen years is more than enough time to learn, make a difference, then make space for others to serve.
Over 100 members of Congress have served > 18 years, and it’s time to
.
@Tim_Walz
enlisted in the military and served for 24 years.
It’s a special kind of pathetic to disparage him while worshiping a guy who avoided military service by claiming “flat feet”.
My goodness.
President Biden is an American hero and patriot whose legacy will rank among the most important in our history.
I entered the primary in the spirit of Paul Revere, not George Washington, and cannot wait to get to work for the new Democratic ticket, defeat Donald Trump, and win
Source: Democratic Party coronating 81 year old man in steep decline, with lowest approvals in history, and losing to dangerous and indicted man in every poll of consequence.
As the ONLY one of 535 in Congress who refuses money from:
1. PACs
2. Lobbyists
3. Members of Congress, and
4. Has no Leadership PAC (politician slush fund)
I cannot be bought.
And anyone who might even attempt to do so will learn a hard and very public lesson.
Not surprising an incumbent with approvals in the 35% range would only be at 54% among Democrats in NH.
But who would have imagined me at 32% and rising every week?
Change in coming, America!
#DropInDean
To all who say I’ve torpedoed my career in Congress.
You’re right. I have.
By listening to voters, studying polls, and helping save our country from another disaster.
America would be in better shape if more politicians were willing to torpedo their careers.
Worst approval since Jimmy Carter, who got crushed by Reagan.
4 points BELOW Donald Trump at the same point.
Down 8 in Michigan & Georgia.
Is anyone paying attention?
Despite my over-performance in Atkinson, I’m excited to get to work for
@JoeBiden
and ensure integrity, competency, and decency remain in the White House. Onward!
How can one “support democracy” while supporting the most unpopular and unelectable Democrat in the modern era?
He’s 4 points BELOW the man he barely beat in 2020. Hard to believe, but very true.
The delusion is dangerous and it’s not rocket science, folks. We need a different
What certain Republicans call a coup, replacing a nominee with another, we know is democracy.
What we know was a coup, attacking the Capitol to stop the counting of ballots, certain Republicans call democracy.
Neither
@marwilliamson
nor I inspired an insurrection.
Yet the
@DNC
is working to keep us off ballots and was served w/a cease & desist yesterday by the State of New Hampshire for the UNLAWFUL SUPPRESSION OF VOTERS.
Silence is complicity, and we won’t be silent. 🥊
I’m excited and energized to mobilize behind
@KamalaHarris
and do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump in November.
It’s time for a new American generation to restore optimism, attack injustice, and invest in prosperity - for all.
The choice is stark, the time is short, and
In 2016, Joe Biden made the wrong decision by not running, and in 2024 he’s making the wrong decision by running.
It gives me angst, but someone in Washington has to be honest and say what the entire country knows.
Compare him at the 2016 convention (link below) to yesterday,
I’m attacked for being honest and saying the quiet part out loud - the part DC insiders only do in private.
I admire our President. I voted for him and campaigned for him. He has visited my home and been gracious to my family and our country.
But shame on all of you pretending
The only solution is to raise the bar to deter illegal immigration and lower the bar for legal immigration.
1. New buffer zone in Mexico, enhanced physical barriers, technologies, more agents, and reconstructed POEs.
2. Reform asylum policy to require filing and adjudication at
As President, I will compose the most talented, bipartisan Cabinet in American history.
Not just politicians, but experienced leaders from diverse sectors with the capacity to manage large organizations, reduce costs, dramatically improve customer service, and employ innovative
I’m running as a Democrat because I am a Democrat.
In ‘18, I resisted the delusional Donald Trump by flipping a seat for the first time since 1958.
In ‘24, I’m resisting the delusional DNC by challenging an unelectable Joe Biden.
I will do whatever it takes to defeat Donald
Imagine if college students put as much energy into protecting reproductive rights, and reducing poverty, homelessness, crime, and other injustices. In America.
Imagine.
Is the bottom row the best America can do? Of course not. But it’s what the parties want.
Imagine how much better off America would be with an election between the top row.
Thank goodness democracy is being protected by the judiciary, because our political parties are eroding it right in front of our eyes.
I’ll keep exposing the truth and saying the quiet part out loud.
Please join me. 🇺🇸
I’ve built business and brands and studied the best successes in marketing history.
Never known one that generated 20% market share in just ten weeks, as we did last evening in New Hampshire.
We’re just getting started! 🇺🇸
Rep.
@deanbphillips
: President Biden is a good man. He is a man of principle, experience, and wisdom. I'm going to get behind President Biden because the alternative, Donald Trump, is a disaster
.
@KamalaHarris
is talented, experienced, and well-prepared to beat Donald Trump and serve as our President.
As I said on
@FaceTheNation
and in my editorial in the
@WSJ
this morning, I agree with
@BarackObama
that a brief, transparent, competitive process would serve democracy,
Joe Biden is hemorrhaging so much support that he’s now losing to Trump by 8 points in a key battleground state that recently elected two Democrats to the US Senate.
The delusion is disastrous.
I appreciate
@FoxNews
for affording me the opportunity to make the case for American repair and reconciliation.
“Angertainment” would have us believe we are more divided than we really are. Just have to get off our screens and convene. 🇺🇸
Democrats suppressing competition, suppressing voters, and suppressing debate. In America.
We did it by the book, but the party plays by its own rules.
Coronating an unelectable candidate and disenfranchising voters enables the erosion of democracy itself.
The President just said in Mankato, “if I lose Minnesota this time, I’m not coming back for terms 3, 4, 5, or 6”. Yes. The President of the United States just said that.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene is incompetent, unserious, and a stain on our country and Congress.
I’ll be voting to table her Motion to Vacate the Speaker of the House.
It is she who should be removed.
The truth hurts, but Joe Biden is not a viable general election candidate in ‘24.
The organized twitter mob can attack the facts all it wants. It just highlights how out-of-touch the establishment is with political reality.
When people in power place self-preservation over
My dad, Capt. Artie Pfefer, was killed in Vietnam in July of 1969.
He wasn’t a loser. He was a 26 year-old of very modest means but filled with outsized dreams.
He loved his country, gave his life for it, and earned a Bronze Star in doing so.
#WeRespectVets
#WeRespectOurVets
The dysfunction in Washington is a national security threat to us and to democracies around the world.
Corruption, perverse rewards, poor leadership, and a culture of tenure over talent and self-preservation over principle are all to blame.
Until a new generation rises, we’ll
Can we stop focusing on which elderly candidate makes more gaffes and start focusing on the crisis at our border, the economic & social disruption of AI, ending bloody wars, and reducing housing, healthcare, and education costs for hard-working American families?
I feel strongly that people past the age of American life expectancy should not serve as President of the United States.
The risk of cognitive decline and physiological health episodes is simply too high.
The would-be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump and our democracy on Saturday.
Since Corey Comperatore took the bullet for his American family, let’s honor his memory by protecting one another, rejecting political provocateurs, and restoring respect. We can - and must - meet
Corey Comperatore risked his life as a Fire Chief, and lost it as an American engaging in democracy.
While others argue about responsibility for the toxicity that inspired his killer, I say we honor his memory by actually doing something about it.
Hey,
@joerogan
. I ran for President against both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and would welcome a conversation with you about what I discovered along the way.
📈American Dream Accounts:
We endow every baby with $5,000 invested in the S&P 500.
In school, students track their assets on an app while learning financial management and entrepreneurship.
Conditioned on graduation from HS, young adults receive their $20,000+ account as
To the thieves stealing campaign signs from my supporters’ lawns across the district and the criminals who broke into our Minnetonka campaign office overnight, the irony isn’t lost on me. Your disregard for law and stoking of fear and disorder, only increases my resolve.
Swing states Trump leading:
WI +5, PA +3, NV +8, GA +8, MI +5, NC +10, AZ +3
Swing states Biden leading:
-
(Bloomberg/Morning Consult 2024 GE, 4,956 RV 1/16-22)
Medicare For All is a centrist, common sense solution to our unaffordable sick care disaster.
With 26mm uninsured, 90mm underinsured, the highest prices in the world, and mid-pack outcomes - we should be embarrassed.
We ensure public education for all and must ensure health
Change has come! Heartfelt gratitude to Minnesota’s 3rd district for entrusting me with your representation in Congress, and a huge THANK YOU to our amazing staff and extraordinary volunteers. I am humbled, honored, and cannot wait to get to work! 🙌🏻
I appreciate you, Dash, but a candidate losing in every battleground poll and facing the lowest approvals in history should exit the race, open the stage, and encourage a competition among next generation Democrats who can and will defeat Trump.
Marianne Williamson, Dean Phillips, Cornel West & Robert F Kennedy Jr should immediately suspend their campaigns and throw their full support behind President Biden. If they truly care about protecting our Democracy like they say they do, then they will drop out of the race today
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling is the second time that Biden's state party allies have had their anti-democratic, improper conduct reversed. The first was by the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
If you're ready for change, I’m here to bring it. Invest today ⤵️
I am humbled, honored and joyful to be on the House floor for the first time as a Congressman-elect. While great challenges await, the early spirit of collegiality and conversation amongst newly elected Democrats and Republicans make me hopeful about the future. Onwards!
The American brand is built on being a welcoming home for those seeking opportunity and freedom - and on the rule of law.
That’s why we must raise the bar to deter illegal immigration and lower the bar for legal immigration.
It’s just common sense.
Sure,
@BirkMatt
. This 2020 report from your alma mater, Harvard Univ, should suffice. Conversely, what evidence supports your decision to actively undermine faith in our elections? That might go a long way in giving Minnesotans facts rather than falsehoods.
Mr
@deanbphillips
- can you please cite the sources that recognize MN for our "secure and fair elections"? That might go a long way in giving Minnesotans faith in our system overseen by
@MNSteveSimon