New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary is a shallow pool with deep meaning, and a lot of folks like to dip their toe in that water. The ballot is often long on names no one knows. This year will be no different, but then it will.
The Democrats don’t have a primary, but then they do.
Democrat candidates are still registered to be on the primary ballot. Joe Biden is not one of them. He changed the schedule. They kicked New Hampshire to the curb. He is “The first sitting White House occupant in history not to appear on the primary ballot of his party in New Hampshire.”
It has got people yapping about how bad the idea is. He’s left himself open to the very embarrassment he was hoping to avoid, hidden behind the lie that New Hampshire is not diverse enough. He’s doing South Carolina first becasue NH doesn’t represent the Democrat party, and he’s blaming the DNC.
The president’s reelection campaign informed New Hampshire Democrats Tuesday in a letter obtained by CBS News from Biden campaign officials that while he’d like to appear on the ballot, Mr. Biden “is obligated as a Democratic candidate for President to comply with the Delegate Selection Rules for the 2024 Democratic National Convention” set in motion earlier this year.
Biden told the DNC – as its deranged muppet leader – to change the schedule. They did. And now “the buck stops here,” Biden is passing it like he always does. It has unnerved the local Marsixts. They are organizing a write-in campaign.
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Why? Biden could still lose New Hampshire, and that’s not good for incumbents. And there are other names to choose from. Names no one knows. But they will be on the ballot.
Mixing the enthusiasm of a pre-adolescent gazing up at a T-Rex likeness and the happy warrior joy of his political hero Hubert Humphrey, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) let out back-to-back “wows,” signed his declaration of candidacy and paid the $1,000 to appear on New Hampshire’s presidential ballot. …
“I learned to love my country right here in New Hampshire,” Phillips said, recounting to the photographers, reporters and state officials cramped into the Secretary of State’s capitol office his summers spent at a camp in the White Mountains. (The camp is technically in Maine though along the New Hampshire border, as the Union Leader reported.) He also revealed his inscription on the paperwork: “I love New Hampshire.”
Phillips has vowed, if elected, to return the first Democrat primary to New Hampshire. That will attract a few jilted lovers to his altar. But not likely enough. The Biden write-in campaign, headed by long-time Dem party leader Kathy Sullivan – she who housed out-of-state vote stealer Jeff Wetrosky – will rally a lot of scribbles for Biden. She’s got this idea that he needs to win. Her State party can’t let it slide even when the National Party has moved forward and away from the Granite State.
And isn’t that what Democrats do? Every existing tradition and institution must be smashed. You need ashes before your utopian phoenix can rise. Joe Biden has done them a favor. He has lifted the rock of a 123-year tradition and pitched into the river. No longer burdened, Granite State Dems are free to salute the new primary order.
They’ve got a case of Primary Fundamentalism, and it is not very progressive of them.
You’re not conservatives. Let it go.
HT | Politico
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