Take that Congressman Dean Phillips! The Guardian reports that Texas pastor and businessman Ryan Binkley’s 2024 presidential campaign, riding on a wave of momentum after capturing 774 votes in the Iowa caucuses (absolutely crushing former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s 191 vote finish there), managed to draw four people to an open bar campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire last week and one of them was actually eligible to vote in the Granite State!
“There’s so many candidates that are coming in and out of the race, you just kind of have to see what’s available the day of. It’s like going to the market. I maintain an open mind,” said Dartmouth College Political Science Professor Jason Barabas, whose presence the Guardian described as more of “an anthropological exercise” than one of any actual interest in voting for Binkley.
“Binkley’s event was competing against a trivia night taking place in the main bar. Once that had finished, Binkley’s campaign staffer, a pleasant person apparently well-practiced in remaining positive, went round to try to lure people to Binkley’s event. But not even the open bar could tempt a crowd that had largely never heard of the candidate,” the reporter described the scene.