{"id":592880,"date":"2023-10-01T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rep-phillips-to-step-down-from-democratic-leadership-role\/"},"modified":"2023-10-01T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:21:54","slug":"rep-phillips-to-step-down-from-democratic-leadership-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rep-phillips-to-step-down-from-democratic-leadership-role\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rep. Phillips to step down from Democratic leadership role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/PhillipsDean.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) is stepping down from his Democratic leadership role as he mulls a primary challenge to President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Phillips\u2019 office confirmed with The Hill that the congressman will be stepping down from his position as co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMy convictions relative to the 2024 presidential race are incongruent with the majority of my caucus, and I felt it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate to step aside from elected leadership to avoid unnecessary distractions during a critical time for our country,\u201d Phillips said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI celebrate Leader Jeffries for his remarkable and principled leadership and extend gratitude to my outstanding friends and colleagues for having created space and place for my perspectives,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019ll continue to abide by my convictions, place people over politics, and support our shared mission to deliver security, opportunity, and prosperity for all Americans. Onward!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Phillips\u2019 office told The Hill that Phillips will remain in his congressional seat and a member of the Democratic caucus. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/10\/01\/dean-phillips-steps-down-dem-leadership-biden\">Axios<\/a>\u00a0first reported Phillips\u2019 decision to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, a three-term congressman, has been\u00a0toying with a potential 2024 bid\u00a0against Biden for months and has called for a competitive primary, urging other Democrats to jump into the race. He said last week that he has not\u00a0\u201cruled it out,\u201d\u00a0but added that it is a \u201csteep slope\u201d as there are other Democrats with more prominent name recognition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phillips has previously\u00a0signaled that he would not challenge\u00a0Biden but said in August that he would make a firm decision on his 2024 plans in September.\u00a0It is still unclear whether he will make a move to challenge his party\u2019s leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>There are already two Democratic challengers to Biden in the primary: Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has teased a \u201cmajor\u201d announcement amid rumors he could run as an independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) is stepping down from his Democratic leadership role as he mulls a primary challenge to President Biden. A spokesperson from Phillips\u2019 office confirmed with The Hill that the congressman will be stepping down from his position as co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC). \u201cMy convictions relative to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/PhillipsDean.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134343,134418,140894,134420,80445,90482,991,115,79097],"class_list":["post-592880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-campaign","tag-congress-blog","tag-dean-phillips","tag-equilibrium-sustainability","tag-healthcare","tag-house","tag-joe-biden","tag-news","tag-president-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}