Disrupt! The Silicon Valley Elites Lining Up Behind Dean Phillips

In the New Hampshire primary yesterday, a relatively unknown Democratic congressman from Minnesota gained nearly 20 percent of the vote. Dean Phillips, who is challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, was boosted by rich techies from Silicon Valley hoping to shake up the Democratic primary. Biden wasn't on the ballot in New Hampshire, and hasn't campaigned in the state. The President still won the state by a landslide, gaining more than 50 percent of the vote, thanks to a successful write-in campaign. Despite the meager showing in New Hampshire, Phillips' tech-adjacent supporters have long seen his campaign as a way to disrupt yet another arena: the election industrial complex.