Tag Archives: Dean Phillips

NBC News reports: A telecom company has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for its role in the deepfake robocall that impersonated President Joe Biden’s voice ahead of the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Lingo Telecom, a voice service provider that distributed the artificial intelligence-generated robocalls through “spoofed” phone numbers, will pay the seven-figure penalty and agreed to stricter oversight …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is calling on the governor of New York to pardon Donald Trump after the former president was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments. Phillips, who unsuccessfully challenged President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination this cycle, tweeted at Governor Kathy Hochul (D) on Friday night to …

NBC News reports: Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., has suspended his campaign for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, ending his longshot bid for the White House. “I’m going to suspend my campaign and I will be, right now, endorsing President Biden because the choices are so clear,” he said in a Minnesota radio interview on WCCO’s Chad Hartman’s show. Phillips, 55, …

The Insider reports: Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota didn’t seem too happy after getting wiped out on Super Tuesday. “Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me,” Phillips wrote on X on Tuesday after losing his home state to President Joe Biden by a landslide. Philips announced his …

NBC News reports: Steve Kramer, a veteran political consultant working for a rival candidate, acknowledged Sunday that he commissioned the robocall impersonating President Joe Biden with artificial intelligence, confirming an NBC News report that he was behind the call. Kramer expressed no remorse for creating the deepfake, in which an imitation of the president’s voice discouraged participation in New Hampshire’s …

“Wouldn’t all your listeners be maybe more compelled by Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips getting together on a unity ticket, and actually doing for the first time perhaps in our country’s history what most Americans actually want, which is cooperation, collaboration, participation, decency, common sense leadership. “There’s no way Nikki Haley will become the nominee in the GOP, and the …

NBC News reports: A Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation, according to text messages, call logs and Venmo transactions the creator shared with NBC News. Paul Carpenter says …

Politico reports: Longshot Democratic presidential contender Dean Phillips announced that he would lay off a significant portion of his campaign staff but said he would remain in the race. “I found it almost impossible to raise enough to do this campaign the way I want. And today, sadly, I had to announce layoffs to a lot of my staff members,” …

“What I’m saying is this: I don’t know what my name recognition is. It was zero just ten weeks ago. I would imagine in this country right now, it is probably 5 or 10 percent, tops. I was a brand-builder before this in the private sector. It takes recognition of a name or a brand in order to actually test …

The Hill reports: 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 …

The New York Times reports: Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, a Democrat running a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden, said on Saturday that he would consider running on the ticket of No Labels, a centrist group exploring an independent bid, if it appeared the general election would be a rematch between Mr. Biden and Donald J. Trump. In an …

The Messenger reports: Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has pledged his support to Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., in the 2024 presidential campaign. “If you want to run for president, your time is right now. In this time of need, only one person decided to place his country above his professional aspirations,” Yang said during an event with Phillips at …

Politico reports: Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips removed a reference to promoting “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” on his campaign website after one of his top financial backers, a leading DEI opponent, prodded Phillips publicly on the subject. That donor, the hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, has at different times called Phillips’s language about DEI a “mistake” and said the candidate …

Politico reports: In a forum with Elon Musk on Monday afternoon, Democratic presidential primary challenger Dean Phillips floated a possible Cabinet post for the billionaire and his tech allies. Phillips, who is running a longshot bid against President Joe Biden, spoke with Musk, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman and podcast host Jason Calacanis for a wide-ranging conversation on Musk’s X …

Politico reports: A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid to require Florida Democrats to hold a presidential primary in March. Florida’s Democratic primary was scuttled because President Joe Biden was the lone candidate certified to state election officials. It was a decision that rankled other Democrats, including Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) who is challenging Biden and called it “intentional …

The Guardian reports: Contemplating a New Hampshire campaign event to which not one voter showed up, the Minnesota congressman and Democratic presidential hopeful Dean Phillips told reporters on Tuesday: “Sometimes, if you build it, they don’t come.” He was alluding to a famous line from Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which an Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner …

Politico reports: A Tampa lawyer who has run for office previously wants a federal judge to order state election officials to put the name of Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) on the March 19 ballot along with Biden. The lawsuit filed contends the process used by Democrats — as outlined under Florida law — is unconstitutional. The lawsuit does not include …

The Daily Beast reports: In a series of early morning tweets, retiring congressman and long-shot presidential candidate, Dean Phillips, articulated his thoughts on the 2024 election. He said while he was a staunch supporter of the Biden agenda and respects the president, he thinks the level of government missteps is “staggering” and that its “delusional” to believe that Joe Biden …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., announced Friday that he will not seek re-election to Congress as he mounts a longshot primary challenge to President Joe Biden. Echoing statements he has made about Biden’s reelection campaign, Phillips said in a press release that after three terms in Congress it is “time to pass the torch.” “My journey to public …

Politico reports: The presidential campaign Dean Phillips launched on Friday is such a longshot that some of his colleagues call it a vanity project. Other top Democrats privately deem it a mid-life crisis. It may also be the clearest distillation to date of the undercurrent of discontent with Joe Biden among Democratic Party voters, even if it’s not likely to …