Another hot mess for 2024.[An] unusual situation [has arisen] from the Democratic national committee’s decision to ditch decades of tradition this year in choosing South Carolina, a much more racially diverse state, to host the first presidential primary. When New Hampshire said it would host its primary first anyway – South Carolina will vote next week – the Democratic National Committee essentially said it would ignore the state’s results.
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As a consequence of the party scrap, Biden’s name will not even appear on the ballot in the Granite state on Tuesday.
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“New Hampshire historically has not been about delegates, because we have relatively few to offer in the big scheme of things,” [Dante Scala, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire] said.
“It’s about the publicity that comes with a victory or even a better-than-expected performance in an early voting state in the nomination process, and I think they’ve been following that playbook.”
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Biden might be absent from the state, but a movement has emerged encouraging people to write his name on voting slips, and in a sign that the Biden campaign sees the potential for embarrassment, a series of high-profile Biden supporters have been dispatched to New Hampshire in recent weeks.
Guardian
..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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