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Biden might have already lost the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. Here's why.
Business Insider ^ | 4/29/23 | Katie Balevic

Posted on 04/30/2023 1:52:57 AM PDT by Libloather

resident Joe Biden's newly launched 2024 re-election campaign is not off to the smoothest start.

One of Biden's challengers may be poised to secure the first electoral contests of the season, putting the incumbent president at risk of losing early state nominations to lesser-known candidates, NBC News reported.

The new primary calendar ratified by the Democratic National Committee - at Biden's request - downgraded Iowa and New Hampshire from their longstanding positions as the first electoral hoorahs of the primary season. As a result, candidates are prohibited from campaigning - or even adding their names to the ballot - in any state that refuses to adhere to the calendar.

Both Iowa and New Hampshire, who have long enjoyed outsized influence as early-voting states, plan to buck the DNC rules and hold their contests early anyway.

That means that if Biden intends to follow his own rules, he would have to forfeit the two contests, clearing the way for Democratic challengers like Marianne Williamson, a self-help author, or Robert Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer best known these days for his anti-vaccine stance. Both have said they would accept the DNC's penalties for campaigning out of turn, NBC News reported.

The DNC has not yet indicated what those penalties might be.

"We still intend to have a presidential primary that will be first in the nation," said New Hampshire's secretary of state, David Scanlan, according to NBC News. "Whether the president campaigns here or not is up to him. It's up to him whether he's going to place his name on the ballot or not."

Scanlan added of Biden: "If he chooses not to place his name on the ballot, I'm sure there will be some New Hampshire Democratic voters who will write his name in."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; iowa; nh; primaries
RATS have rulz.
1 posted on 04/30/2023 1:52:57 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“Here’s why”?!?!?! Why read this? These commies have a foot hold in every state on every level of elections.


2 posted on 04/30/2023 1:55:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: Libloather
What a clown show our rigged "elections" are.

Eff this banana republic we live in.

3 posted on 04/30/2023 2:27:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Libloather

The Demonrats are going to allow primaries?


4 posted on 04/30/2023 2:47:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Libloather

Biden got his clock cleaned in both....repeatedly. It happened in 88 and again in 08 and again in 2020. Surprise Surprise, they’re not going to vote for him this time either and he knows it. Thus, this attempt to rework the calendar to bring forward a state Jim Clyburn’s machine has a hammer lock on.


5 posted on 04/30/2023 2:54:24 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: albie

Has Iowa finished counting the 2020 caucus votes yet?


6 posted on 04/30/2023 3:36:02 AM PDT by digger48
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They can have a primary but the results won’t be counted until the Democrats figure out the desired magic number.


7 posted on 04/30/2023 3:37:54 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Libloather

But Fox News has already called Arizona for Biden 2024.


8 posted on 04/30/2023 5:47:10 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most importan.t election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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