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Cannot wait to throw this at some voter fraud asshat's face. "Holy shit you're right! Look here. Biden won an election and he wasn't even on the ballot! Talk about rigged!"
self-help author Marianne Williamson.
I'd forgotten all about her. I'd like to do so again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Associated Press called the race for Mr Biden shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night, as a majority of voters wrote in the president’s name.
Mr Biden’s campaign purposefully did not file the president’s name for the ballot within the deadline in an act of solidarity with the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) decision to make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary.
The DNC said those who ran Tuesday’s primary would not be awarded delegates, prompting Mr Biden’s campaign to comply.
Mr Biden’s win is likely to reassure Democrats that the president still holds support from a majority of voters in the party.
Officials will likely spend the night counting write-in votes in the Granite State to determine the exact number Mr Biden received.
Now that New Hampshire’s primary has finished, heads are turning to South Carolina, where Democrats will host a caucus.
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Silly political games
The DNC said those who ran Tuesday’s primary would not be awarded delegates, prompting Mr Biden’s campaign to comply.
Congrats to Biden for winning a primary in NH after it was announced the primary meant nothing and Dems in NH have no say in their candidate because their state party leaders didn't have time to change the state law that dictated when their primary was. Not to even mention, state party leaders don't make state law...
There was literally no way the NH state party could have complied with the DNC's request to move their date...
Considering his past performances in NH, this is likely the only way he was ever going to win there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Hampshire_Democratic_presidential_primary
Moderates just don't do well there, which is the real reason they can't go first anymore and the DNC yanked their delegates this year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_New_Hampshire_Democratic_presidential_primary
People would be shitting bricks if the RNC did this to a state that always goes more liberal than the national party wants.
But the DNC doing it to a progressive state isn't a big deal?
Considering his past performances in NH, this is likely the only way he was ever going to win there.
Against who?? He's an incumbent president, of course he was going to win the primary. Of his 2020 opponents, Warren, Sanders and Klobuchar are on record being proud of what Biden has been able to accomplish legislatively, and all three are 100% behind him, and Buttigieg is working in his administration.
Moderates just don't do well there
Isn't the governor of New Hampshire a Republican? I've always considered New Hampshire to be a politically sane and somewhat moderate state