<p>Presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) pushed back on an MSNBC panel led by Symone Sanders Townsend — former chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris — as they attempted to grill him on the heels of his decisive loss in the South Carolina Democratic primary.</p>
<p>Sanders, who worked on Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign, began by pointing to the numbers — Phillips took third place behind President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic challenger Marianne Williamson — and asked Phillips to explain how he could possibly hope to win a general election when he could not win the Democratic primary.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Grateful for the invitation from <a href="https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SymoneDSanders</a> and MSNBC to discuss why Democrats must use invitation &#8211; not condemnation &#8211; and promote a new generation of common sense leaders like <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJeffries</a>.</p>
<p>We will not succeed by coronating leaders of the past when… <a href="https://t.co/4Fbavkqwyw">pic.twitter.com/4Fbavkqwyw</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/status/1754199443887313334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Phillips pointed to the fact that his name recognition nationally was practically non-existent — something he attributed to the fact that the Democratic Party appeared to be more interested in simply coronating Joe Biden than in encouraging healthy debate and competition.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think I probably have 5% name recognition now in the country. No voters know me,&#8221; Phillips said. &#8220;In fact, this is my first invitation to your network in four months. So I&#8217;m grateful to all of you — sincerely, I mean that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my whole point,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The GOP has had a competition. They&#8217;re on TV, they&#8217;re consuming hundreds of hours of primetime television, debates, town halls. CNN has given every GOP candidate a one-hour town hall. At least there&#8217;s energy on the GOP side. We don&#8217;t get energy unless there&#8217;s competition. So when you coronate someone — especially a man like Joe Biden &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Phillips went on to explain that he respected Biden but that his goal was to encourage more competition — a move that he said would ultimately help Democrats to put forth the best and strongest candidates.</p>
<p>Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele weighed in next: &#8220;So the Chairman in me says, &#8216;What the hell you doing?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Steele went on to argue that the Democratic Party had had a chance to choose someone different in 2020 — and they had chosen Biden. He argued that the fact that Biden was not stepping down — which Phillips said was a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; — meant that the primary was his to lose.</p>

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