Posted on 01/17/2024 3:11:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
Last year, Biden tried to end New Hampshire’s 100-year reign as the nation’s first presidential primary state when he directed the Democratic National Committee to overhaul the 2024 primary calendar by putting South Carolina (which he won in 2020) ahead of New Hampshire (which he lost).
The Democratic National Committee, which essentially becomes the political arm of the White House when a Democrat is in occupancy, promptly ratified Biden’s wishes. Iowa went down easily since it was already on the chopping block...
But the Granite State refused to budge... triggered DNC rules prohibiting any presidential candidate from campaigning in any state with an unauthorized primary...
Democrats there stepped into the vacuum to help Biden...
Their main goal is simple: Make sure voters know how to write in Biden’s name on the ballot. "Start at the bottom of the ballot, fill in the oval for 'write-in,'" one digital ad instructs, "Then write 'Joe Biden' on the line."
The budget for the main write-in campaign is somewhere around $70,000... An affiliated super PAC would not disclose its budget. But a source familiar with the effort said it had raised roughly $500,000 by mid-December.
The leaders of the write-in effort all insist they have had no communication with the White House or the Biden campaign...
Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Maura Healey of Massachusetts have pitched in to help the write-in campaign directly.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Since Joe isn’t on the ballot Democrats, or undeclared voters who support Trump could just write in Trump on the Democrat ballot. It would be hilarious if he won both the Republican and the Democrat primary in New Hampshire.
Right, RFK Jr. is running as an independent now. I believe he switched from Democrat to independent in October.
Here is another article along the same lines from the blogging site some refer to as a news site, Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/20/democrats-nikki-haley-primary-votes-00136418
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