Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., this week compared his challenge to President Joe Biden in the New Hampshire Democratic primary to a campaign by another Minnesotan, a little-known senator who challenged an unpopular sitting president in the first-in-the-nation primary in 1968.

“Gene McCarthy recognized that President (Lyndon Baines) Johnson was terribly unpopular. There was a war that was disgusting him. He recognized that massive numbers of Americans were unheard and particularly young people,” Phillips said on Monday during a talk at Dartmouth.

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