Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) signaled Thursday that he’d be willing to serve under President-elect Trump when he returns to the White House.
“If there is a job that could help the country and that my skillset would be useful for. Anybody should consider that,” Phillips told NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
“And if we come to a point where no Democrat will want to serve in a Republican administration, and conversely, we are limiting 50 percent of the universe of potential appointees and that’s what I am trying to overcome,” he added.
Phillips, mounted a long shot bid against President Biden before dropping out in March.
The Minnesota Democrat consistently warned his party about not having a competitive primary process and urged both parties to try to better understand the needs of the American people.
Phillips said last week that Trump has “become a significant historical figure in American politics” and that he built a movement “that, frankly, snuck up on most Democrats.”
“I am not a big fan of the President himself, but I understand the MAGA movement,” Phillips said Thursday. “I understand why people are angry. I understand why this federal government needs to be reformed. But then do it with people with competency and integrity to do it.”
Trump has announced a a number of candidates for his Cabinet and other administration posts since being declared the winner of the presidential race, including picking two ex-Democrats, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be his director of national intelligence and head the Department of Health and Human Services
Why him??? what can he offer
He doesn’t need a democrat when he has so many qualified Conservatives to pick from. Nice try Dean but no.
Be careful because God just said so. You are going to have some try to get on your team to sabotage you & what you are doing to clean up our government.
This election is the results of years of democrats and republican rinos being in control. In the 60s I noticed that republicans were passing these democrat laws that seemed to say (you can’t do this) which I felt had Constitution questions. After college, building a family, teaching, etc., etc. I noticed stuff like killing babies seemed to be the wish of Americans, and homosexuals needed laws passed to give them equal rights to themselves. What you think became you do not have the right to say. The years gave us more and more government rules. My Sister lost her baby. I took a sharp right from the democratic party to the republican party. The Constitution does not give the right to murder a baby, it is still murder. LGBT does not have the right to push porn on kids through the school systems. Pushing porn on kids on the streets, you get arrested but not in the school systems. The silent war against girls came out in the open in schools when boys were allowed to use girl’s bathrooms and showers. The okay extended to adult men’s right to be in Target’s women’s bathrooms. And the democrats and rinos were all for pushing laws to protect this war on females. What modern, up to date country allows killing its babies no matter the point of growth, allows kids who survive pregnancy to children taking care of adult sexual needs. A country that does not protect its children and women dies a slow death into paganism. Even Mohammad said Islam would conquer the world through the women’s womb. Islam controls women but still doesn’t kill their babies just the babies of infidels. The republican party I hope doesn’t weaken and give in to the democrat party. We want the survival of this country for those babies who get through pregnancy and grow up wanting to protect future babies. That is the way life should be in a country.