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2024 Follies: Could Biden lose the New Hampshire Primary [1]

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Date: 2023-04-28  

President Joe Biden angered the state’s top Democrats by pushing changes to the 2024 nominating calendar that eliminated New Hampshire’s prized first-in-the-nation primary status and put South Carolina in the lead-off spot.

But New Hampshire is still likely to go first, thanks to a state law that requires the primary to take place one week before any others. The Democratic National Committee gave New Hampshire until June to change the date, but that’s a no-go with the Republicans who control the governor’s office and state legislature.

And so Biden faces a quandary of his own design. If he participates in the primary of a state that’s poised to go rogue, he risks violating party rules — which would likely impose sanctions on candidates or states in violation. (A Biden campaign aide said the president and his team would abide by any sanctions imposed by the DNC, if that were to happen.)

But if Biden doesn’t appear on the ballot, he could cede the unofficial first contest to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and self-help guru Marianne Williamson.

Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) has privately urged Biden twice now to compete in New Hampshire. “He should be on the ballot in New Hampshire. He’ll win handily,” she said in an interview this week. And if Biden is not on the ballot, there’s an alternative option: a write-in campaign, which is what Kuster and other top Democrats expect will happen if the president chooses to formally skip New Hampshire.

Either way, losing a primary that doesn’t actually count for anything isn’t a problem. Nor are Kennedy and Williamson a threat to the president’s renomination — not by any stretch.

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