Dean Phillips, Jewish Democrat who ran quixotic presidential campaign, endorses Biden

(JTA) — U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, the Minnesota Jewish Democrat who ran a long shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nod, suspended his campaign and endorsed President Joe Biden.

Phillips sought to tap into frustration among Democrats based almost wholly on Biden’s age; the two barely differed on policy, including on Israel, with both strongly backing Israel in its war with Hamas, but expressing concerns about the conduct of the war. In the end, he scored zero delegates.

He alluded to the age argument in his statement Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known…