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Jeongyoon Han

Rep. Dean Phillips ends a longshot bid to defeat Biden in the Democratic primary

Democratic challenger and U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips listens to supporters during a campaign rally on Jan. 22 in Manchester, N.H. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who ran a longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination against President Biden and in contempt of the national party's wishes, has announced he's suspending his campaign.

Phillips had campaigned particularly hard in New Hampshire, where, because of a dispute between the state and the Democratic National Committee, Biden was not on the party's primary ballot. Yet Biden won that Jan. 23 primary as a write-in candidate regardless.

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