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Dean Phillips Wins Reelection in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District

DEEPHAVEN, MINNESOTA – Today, Dean Phillips won reelection in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District by historic proportions. With more than 243,000 votes cast in his favor, Phillips’s win represents the largest vote count ever earned by a candidate for Congress in MN-03. 

Dean Phillips released the following statement: 

“Tonight, our community chose optimism over fear, conversation over chaos, and decency over division. This is the best job I have ever had, and I am honored to have the opportunity to represent such a civically-engaged district for another two years.

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Reps. Phillips and Gonzalez sign Braver Angels letter committing to bipartisan support for a fair and nonviolent election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Dean Phillips (D-MN) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) came together in a show of bipartisanship today to sign the Braver Angels “What we will do to hold America together” public letter, promoting bipartisanship in the lead-up and following this year’s Presidential election.

“…In this season of intense and legitimate partisanship, we the undersigned commit ourselves also to a higher partisanship – for the maintenance of our Union; for the importance of our shared civic life; and for those feelings of goodwill that Lincoln called the better angels of our nature,” reads the letter. “We the undersigned will work separately for what each of us believes is right, but we will also work together to protect the land we all love – to lift up American citizenship and the American promise in a time of peril and to find in ourselves the understanding that our differences don’t simply divide us, but can strengthen and complete us.”

The Braver Angels “Holding America Together” campaign calls upon Americans to embrace a higher partisanship and disavow all election related violence. The public letter, which has over 5,000 signatories to date — including elected officials and media figures across the political spectrum — resolves that should a consensus not be reached on who is the legitimately elected president following the election, the signers will work in a bipartisan manner for solutions grounded in the Constitution and guided by democratic and non-violent traditions. The campaign has also recruited thousands of Americans, and hundreds of institutions — including colleges, churches, and civic groups — to commit to holding post-election gatherings designed to help Americans hold their families, friendships, and communities together in the wake of the election, or during an ongoing election crisis.

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Dean Phillips Gives Minnesotans a Reason to Send Him Back to Congress in Final Debate

MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA —  In a one-hour debate on WCOO radio today, Dean Phillips rose above divisive fear tactics and gave Minnesotans a reason to send him back to Washington. For the second time in one week, Dean’s opponent declined to share his vision for our future, misrepresented the truth and doubled down on his support for Donald Trump. 

With unrelenting optimism in the face of dishonest attacks, Dean thoughtfully answered policy questions and shared details about the bipartisan success from his historic first term in Congress. Minnesotans are voting in record numbers, and they deserve the truth: 

  • Dean Phillips is a bipartisan leader and has voted four times more often with Pete Stauber than with Nancy Pelosi. 
    In Congress, Dean has voted 393 times with his fellow Problem Solvers Caucus member Pete Stauber (R-MN) and 79 times with Speaker Pelosi. As a proud member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, Dean is inspiring a new era of collaboration in Washington. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce honored Dean with their 2020 Jefferson-Hamilton Award for Bipartisanship, he is the 27th most bipartisan out of 437 House members, and one out of every three bills Dean cosponsored was introduced by a Republican. 
  • Dean wants to see a new generation of leaders in Congress.
    No Democrat stepped forward to run against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker in the 116th Congress, but Dean remains committed to supporting a new generation of leaders in the House. As a crucial first step, Dean secured a “Break the Gridlock” rules change to ensure that no Speaker of the House can unilaterally block bills that have earned broad bipartisan support.  
  • Dean Phillips leads with optimism and gets results for Minnesota.
    President Trump signed Dean’s bipartisan Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act into law, saving millions of small businesses and American jobs. Now, Dean is leading the Problem Solvers Caucus in introducing a bipartisan “March to Common Ground” framework to break the impasse on COVID-19 relief negotiations.
  • Dean Phillips works for the people and is a leading voice for transparency, accountability, and integrity.
    Dean is on a mission to end the corrupting influence of special interest money in our politics and on Capitol Hill. He refuses all campaign contributions from PACs, special interests, federal lobbyists, and other members of Congress, proudly serves on the House Ethics Committee, and authored the TRUTH Act, which would have required the federal government to disclose where COVID-19 relief money is going.
  • Dean Phillips builds strong coalitions, and Everyone’s Invited!
    The Star Tribune, labor unions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association have all endorsed Dean. The Minnesota Farm Bureau calls Dean a “Friend of the Farm,” and the Campaign to Fix the Debt named Dean a “2020 Fiscal Hero.” 

Dean Phillips Charts a New Course for Political Advertising

As pandemic pushes campaigns online, Phillips uses technology to bring his bipartisan message directly to voters 

MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA – Yesterday, Dean Phillips announced details behind his strategic and innovative advertising campaign, which is currently underway in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District. Rather than participating in archaic, ugly, and offensive political ad wars on television, the Phillips for Congress campaign is using data to micro target a series of positive online ads directly to independent voters.

“We’re running an innovative campaign that’s built for the challenges and realities of 2020,” said Phillips. “I reject the outdated fear tactics employed by Donald Trump and the Republican candidates who are running alongside him. I’m choosing optimism and invitation over fear and division – and my campaign is using twenty first century tools to spread our message during this unprecedented and historic election.” 

Totalling more than $400,000, the investment includes six targeted ads which highlight Phillips’s lengthy bipartisan record and gives voters something to vote for rather than reasons to dislike his opponent. Phillips also leaned on local creative talent – rather than political consultants – to develop a series of ads calling on Americans to come together with optimism in the midst of the most divisive political season in our lifetimes. 

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Third District’s Dean Phillips deserves another term in Congress

He’s taken a refreshingly bipartisan approach to Washington. 

Opinion editor’s note: The Star Tribune Editorial Board operates separately from the newsroom, and no news editors or reporters were involved in the endorsement process.

Minnesota’s Third Congressional District, long in Republican hands, swung to a Democrat in the last election, businessman Dean Phillips. Voters liked his message of innovation, pragmatism and a commitment to working across the aisle.

Phillips, 51, has delivered on those ideals in his first term and deserves to continue his work in a second term. He is part of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, where some 50 lawmakers from both parties sit down to figure out where they can find common ground.

Their most recent work centered on breaking the impasse on COVID relief, with Phillips and South Dakota Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson laboring to craft a well-balanced framework that was larger than the Senate’s “skinny stimulus” but smaller than the House’s $2 trillion package. Continue reading.