NASHUA, New Hampshire, Jan 20 (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman looking to thwart President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, from a second term assailed Biden as weak and unelectable on Saturday as he tried to take advantage of Biden’s absence from New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.
Biden is skipping the New Hampshire primary after the Republican-run state refused his demand to give up its first in nation primary spot to South Carolina. But Biden’s supporters are mounting a write-in campaign to avoid an embarrassing loss in the state on primary election day on Tuesday.
Congressman Dean Phillips, a wealthy Democrat from Minnesota who is running for president, said during a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, that he hoped to expose what he called Biden’s weakness by doing well in Tuesday’s voting.
Phillips said a strong showing by him would be getting upwards of 20% or more of the vote – “going from zero to somewhere in the 20s would be pretty awesome, I think.”
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