Dean Phillips: “The time to act is now, and I am encouraged that there is support on both sides of the aisle to address this issue this…”

There's a palpable, massive disaffection in the country. And here you have Donald Trump and AOC that may have very different political perspectives and backgrounds, but they're both disrupters.

I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week.

This entire election, in my estimation, was sealed the day that Joe Biden announced he was running for reelection. And the answer is absolutely, we should have had a competition. It makes everything better.

It's time for probably my side of the aisle, particularly to wake up to that reality. And the status quo is not appealing to most Americans.