Field of bad dreams: Biden rival makes quip after no one turns up to 2024 event https://ift.tt/GaK9TBI Martin Pengelly in Washington ‘Sometimes, if you build it, they don’t come,’ says Dean Phillips after he ends up pouring coffee for staffers only in New Hampshire Contemplating a New Hampshire campaign event to which not one voter showed up, the Minnesota congressman and Democratic presidential hopeful Dean Phillips told reporters on Tuesday: “Sometimes, if you build it, they don’t come.” He was alluding to a famous line from Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which an Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner builds a baseball field, thereby attracting the ghosts of famous players. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/zGxlEvZ January 09, 2024 at 10:12PM

‘Sometimes, if you build it, they don’t come,’ says Dean Phillips after he ends up pouring coffee for staffers only in New Hampshire

Contemplating a New Hampshire campaign event to which not one voter showed up, the Minnesota congressman and Democratic presidential hopeful Dean Phillips told reporters on Tuesday: “Sometimes, if you build it, they don’t come.”

He was alluding to a famous line from Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which an Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner builds a baseball field, thereby attracting the ghosts of famous players.

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