Posted on 05/18/2023 7:29:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NASHUA, N.H. — Top Democrats are scrambling for ways to avoid a catastrophe in New Hampshire in which Joe Biden may not appear on the primary ballot, ceding the first unofficial contest of 2024 to a fringe candidate.
The bizarre predicament is one of the president’s own making, after he pushed for changes to the party’s presidential nominating calendar that stripped the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation primary. The move was designed to reward South Carolina, which catapulted Biden to the nomination in 2020.
But there’s a state law requiring New Hampshire’s contest be held a week before any others, and Republicans in charge of the governor’s office and state legislature are refusing to touch it. If they don’t, a primary may well be held without the sitting president putting his name on the ballot.
Now, national Democrats are searching for an off-ramp. With a June deadline looming for New Hampshire to make progress on changing its law or get kicked out of the official early voting lineup, Democratic National Committee members are privately considering giving the state more time.
“If there's any opportunity for this to get resolved by New Hampshire having more time, all of us will say, ‘Give New Hampshire more time,’” said labor leader Randi Weingarten, who sits on the DNC committee that approved the changes to the nominating calendar.
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The Bible says the wicked fall into their own traps.
I don’t think he’s going to make it. He’s looking really bad.
Abolish the fbi.
The mockingbird meme instructs their tools to not name RFK, Jr. but to always use the term "fringe".
We live in weird, neo-totalitarian times.
Wow.....Randi, the author of the school board FBI coordination memo? The policy maker for the NIH, and CDC? The schools closing Randi? The remote learning Randi?
In a policy steering role at the DNC, Randi? Just wow!
Yep that’s her, a more vile, wicked woman you will not find
“fringe candidates” ... “not a threat to biden” ... yeah, no bias there, right politico?
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