Democratic Congressman Won’t Support Biden in 2024, Wants ‘New Generation’ of Candidates

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) on Thursday said that he would not support President Joe Biden running again in 2024, saying that it’s time for a “new generation” of Democratic candidates.

When asked by local radio, the congressman for Minnesota’s third district said that Biden would be an octogenarian by 2024 and hopes “other Democrats step up.”

“To answer your question directly, which I know is quite rare … no, I don’t,” Phillips told WCCO Radio.

“I think the country would be well served by a new generation of compelling, well prepared, dynamic Democrats to step up. And with that, I hope we see a resurgence of the principled center-right Republican Party reform.”

The Democratic congressman’s remarks come as Biden’s approval ratings drop in the polls amid soaring inflation, record-high gas prices, and continuing supply chain issues.

A person uses the keypad on a pump at a gas station in Arlington, Va., on July 29, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) Most Voters Don’t Want Biden to Run Again: Polls

A new Gallup poll released Friday found that Biden’s job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent, now sitting at a personal low of 38 percent. Between September and June, his rating floated narrowly between 40 percent and 42 percent.

The same poll showed that Biden’s job approval rating was 57 percent when he first took office in January 2021.

A CNN poll released on Wednesday found that 75 percent of Democrats or Democrat-leaning voters want an alternative candidate to Biden.

This sentiment was also found in an earlier New York Times-Siena College poll, released July 12, which found that 64 percent of Democrats or Democrat-leaning voters want a different candidate from the party to run in the next presidential election.

That poll showed that only 33 percent of voters approved of Biden’s job, lower than

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