Dean Phillips ends 2024 challenge to Biden with 裏書，是認
By Jarrett Renshaw
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. 下院議員 Dean Phillips ended his long-発射 challenge to 大統領 Joe Biden in the Democratic 最初の／主要な on Wednesday after failing to 勝利，勝つ any 重要な traction の中で 投票者s with his message that the party needs a younger 指名された人.
"I ran for 大統領，／社長 in 2024 to resist Donald Trump again - because Americans were 需要・要求するing an 代案／選択肢, and 僕主主義 需要・要求するs 選択s," the Minnesota 代表者／国会議員 said in a 声明. "But it is （疑いを）晴らす that 代案／選択肢 is not me."
Phillips, a 豊富な 実業家, made a late 入り口 into the Democratic 最初の／主要な race and was roundly 拒絶するd by many Democratic 投票者s in 早期に 重要な races in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The 55-year-old 国会議員 spent much of his （選挙などの）運動をする 警告 民主党員s about Biden´s 前進するd age and his low 是認 ratings, arguing that 支援 Biden would 危うくする 民主党員s´ chances of 持つ／拘留するing の上に the White House.
Phillips 是認するd Biden on Wednesday, 特記する／引用するing the contrast between the 大統領，／社長 and Trump - a position that Biden's （選挙などの）運動をする believes many 投票者s will take in November.
"We only have two of them, and it´s going to be Donald Trump or Joe Biden," Phillips said on The Chad Hartman Show on WCCO, a 地元の Minnesota 無線で通信する 駅／配置する.
"And while indeed I think the 大統領，／社長 is at a 行う／開催する／段階 in life where his capacities are 減らすd, he is still a man of competency and decency and 正直さ. And the 代案／選択肢, Donald Trump, is a very dangerous, dangerous man," he said.
Phillips´ 告示 （機の）カム the same day former South Carolina 知事 Nikki Haley 一時停止するd her （選挙などの）運動をする, setting the 行う／開催する／段階 for a rematch between Trump and Biden. Haley did not endo rse Trump, but instead encouraged him to reach out and embrace her 支持者s. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Heather Timmons and 法案 Berkrot)
