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Democrat Dean Phillips vows to continue campaign after losing New Hampshire primary
MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat from Minnesota, vowed to continue his presidential campaign in a high-energy speech following his performance in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday.
CBS News projects President Biden will win the New Hampshire primary over Phillips.
“Your votes tonight were the most meaningful votes you’ve ever cast in your life, and I’ll make that promise to you,” Phillips told supporters Tuesday evening in New Hampshire.
Phillips said he thinks he is the only person that can stand in the way of former President Donald Trump’s potential re-election.
“The polls are saying he [Mr. Biden] cannot win, his approval numbers are saying he can’t win,” Phillips said. “We’re going to go to South Carolina, to Michigan, and 47 other states.”
Phillips told WCCO Radio that getting “into the 20s” in New Hampshire would be “a huge victory.”
Phillips launched his campaign in October in New Hampshire. He positioned himself as a younger alternative to the 81-year-old incumbent Mr. Biden. He said he was running for “the exhausted majority” and cited issues such as the nation’s debt, military spending and high taxes.
Mr. Biden did not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot. The state has long been the first primary, but the Democratic National Committee last year approved a new schedule that put South Carolina first. New Hampshire’s state government disagreed with the move and refused to change state law to adhere to it. As a consequence, Mr. Biden’s campaign did not file for the primary. This did not preclude Mr. Biden from earning write-in votes, which were encouraged by his campaign.
Phillips said in November he would not seek re-election to Congress. He unseated Republican Erik Paulsen in the 3rd District 2018 and won re-election in 2022. Since he launched his presidential campaign, several candidates have come forward in the 3rd District. Democrats Sen. Kelly Morrison and Ron Harris, a Democratic National Executive Committee member, have announced their bids. Republicans Quentin Wittrock and Blaize Harty have also entered the race.
Before getting into politics, Phillips was heir to his stepfather’s Phillips Distilling Company empire, serving as the company’s president. He also ran the gelato maker Talenti. He lives in Wayzata with his wife, Annalise, and has two adult daughters from a previous marriage.
Note: The video above originally aired Nov. 19, 2023.
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McDonald’s investing $100 million to lure customers back to the fast food giant after E. coli outbreak
McDonald’s is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
The investments include $65 million that will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises, the company said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.
The E. coli outbreak has sickened 104 people in 14 states, federal health officials said in an update on Wednesday.
At least 34 people have been hospitalized, and four developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. An 88-year-old man who resided in Grand Junction, Colorado, died, as previously reported. The illnesses began at the end of September, and the most recent onset of illness occurred as of Oct. 21, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Food and Drug Administration has said that “there does not appear to be a continued food safety concern related to this outbreak at McDonald’s restaurants.”
However, the outbreak hurt the company’s sales.
Quarter Pounders were removed from menus in several states in the early days of the outbreak.
In a statement Wednesday obtained by CBS News, McDonald’s said it had found an “alternate supplier” for the approximately 900 restaurants that had temporarily stopped serving Quarter Pounders with slivered onions.
“Over the past week, these restaurants resumed the sale of Quarter Pounder burgers with slivered onions,” McDonald’s said.
CBS News reached out to McDonald’s on Saturday for a statement regarding the reported investment.
Health officials said Saturday they have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo.
The person had traveled to eastern Africa and was treated in Northern California upon return, according to the California Department of Public Health. Symptoms are improving and the risk to the public is low.
Mpox is a rare disease caused by infection with a virus that’s in the same family as the one that causes smallpox. It is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals.
Earlier this year, scientists reported the emergence of a new form of mpox in Africa that was spread through close contact including through sex.
More than 3,100 confirmed cases have been reported just since late September, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of them have been in three African countries – Burundi, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Since then, cases of travelers with the new mpox form have been reported in Germany, India, Kenya, Sweden, Thailand, Zimbabwe, and the United Kingdom.
Health officials earlier this month said the situation in Congo appears to be stabilizing. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated Congo needs at least 3 million mpox vaccines to stop the spread, and another 7 million vaccines for the rest of Africa.
The current outbreak is different from the 2022 global outbreak of mpox where gay and bisexual men made up the vast majority of cases.