A Democrat opponent for the White House swiped at the incumbent by pointing out the “unmitigated, embarrassing, unforgivable” issue former President Donald Trump is “actually listening” to voters on.
(Video: NewsNation)
While President Joe Biden has hardly strayed outside the beltway during his administration, save to go on one vacation after another, he spent Friday politicking in Pennsylvania while his oft-ignored primary opponents gathered in New York City for their own forum.
There, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips referenced the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border when he was asked about a main difference between himself and the Democratic Party head.
Alongside writer Marianne Williamson and constitutionally ineligible commentator, Turkish-born Cenk Uygur, NewsNation host Dan Abrams eyed drawing distinctions between the candidates and asked each in turn, “What is the issue where you differ most from President Biden?”
Offering a compliment to the president to start, Phillips contended that Biden “saved our country” before pushing the CHIPS Act, made law in Aug. 2022 authorizing nearly $300 billion in spending that was sold as an America First revitalization plan that ultimately picked winners and losers through forced social policies.
Following that up with a criticism about Biden’s lack of investment in Americans amid a “crisis in costs and chaos,” the Minnesota lawmaker turned to the invasion from the south.
“The other area where I differ with him immensely is our southern border. I’ve been there twice, Dan. It is an unmitigated, embarrassing, unforgivable disaster, and Democrats, as Cenk said earlier, have to wake up to the truth,” argued Phillips.
“The more we ignore it, the more we pave a path for Donald Trump to return to the White House because you know what — he’s actually listening,” the congressman asserted, distinguishing the GOP figure and his leftist counterpart, “and I think it’s time that Democrats do, and I’m afraid that President Biden is at a stage where he has lost the ability to legitimately listen.”
“In fact, where is he? I know he probably couldn’t be here today,” said Phillips as Biden had spent the day getting heckled in Pennsylvania less than 100 miles from the Big Apple, “but to tell the country that he will not debate a single time in a Democratic primary of such consequence? That’s perhaps the biggest point of differentiation between him, Cenk, Marianne and me, is showing up.”
The president’s lack of participation in the primary process had been the deciding factor in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shifting from the Democratic Party to an independent bid, and it remained a key focus of Phillips’ platform against the incumbent as he ran an ad featuring an inquisitive Sasquatch, “something of an expert on elusive creatures,” attempting to find Biden campaigning anywhere in the state of New Hampshire being ignored by the Democratic National Committee.
Stripping New Hampshire of its 103 year #FITN status. Suppressing voters. Suppressing candidates. Refusing to debate. Hiding from reporters. Where’s Joe?https://t.co/V5qBXRyNDvpic.twitter.com/delRSi6FII
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) January 13, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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