Dean Phillips Backs Down From Running For No Labels

January 22, 2024 Democrats, Politics

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), the long shot challenging President Biden for the White House, will not run as a candidate with No Labels.

Phillips’s leading campaign adviser Jeff Weaver confirmed to The Hill that the congressman and insurgent candidate does not intend to seek a third-party or independent bid with the group, despite the candidate’s apparent flirtation with the idea over the weekend.

Weaver was responding to news first reported by Politico on Monday that Phillips will not challenge both the Democratic and Republican nominees in November by mounting a candidacy with No Labels.

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