Before his election to Congress, Dean Phillips enjoyed a successful career in business, leading his family’s distilling company and building Talenti into the country’s largest gelato brand. In 2018, he successfully ousted an NRA A-rated incumbent in Minnesota’s Third District by running a campaign focused on inclusivity and listening.

In Washington, Representative Phillips, who is a gun owner himself, has applied his skills for consensus building and problem solving to addressing America’s gun violence crisis. He has voted for bipartisan legislation to enact universal background checks and close the boyfriend and stalker loopholes. He has joined the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and pushed for funding gun violence research. Minnesotans can trust him to continue to stand for commonsense legislation that will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

We are proud to endorse Dean Phillips for the US House of Representatives in 2020.