Democratic Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips Says He’s Open to Being Nikki Haley’s Running Mate on a ‘Unity Ticket’
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Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) said on Thursday he would be open to becoming Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s running mate on a “unity ticket” against both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
After WCCO radio host Chad Hartman asked Phillips whether he would vote for Haley over Biden if she were to somehow become the 2024 Republican nominee, Phillips said:
Wouldn’t all your listeners be more compelled by maybe 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 really want, which is cooperation, collaboration, participation, decency, common sense, leadership? So I’m gonna turn the question that way because there’s no way Nikki Haley will become the nominee in the GOP, and the fact of the matter is right now the Democratic Party doesn’t want competition and seems to want to coronate Joe Biden.
“Let’s say she ran as an independent, you would run as her VP?” questioned Hartman.
Phillips replied, “I think it’s a conversation Ambassador Haley and I should have, if that’s what this comes down to.”
He continued:
In the event of a Donald Trump victory this November, which is almost certain if Joe Biden is the nominee, I think any American who opposes that should celebrate, encourage, and inspire an alternative that can actually win and lead our country in the way that people want, and I think anybody, including myself, should keep open minds and hearts about that. I hope Nikki Haley does and I think America could be very well served by some type of a bipartisan ticket that restores faith in government and most importantly demonstrates to the world, to the world, that America can work together and restore its extraordinary brand around the entire world.
Phillips concluded, “That’s my aspiration, Chad. One way or another.”
Haley, meanwhile, has a poll average of just 16.9% behind Trump at 74.8%.
