WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden won’t report to have his title appear on the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary poll, his reelection marketing campaign stated Tuesday, opting to skip a competition that the state plans to carry in defiance of a made over primary order that the White House has championed.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, supervisor of Biden’s reelection marketing campaign, wrote in a letter to New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley that “while the president wishes to participate in the primary, he is obligated to comply” with party rules.
“The president looks forward to having his name on New Hampshire’s general election ballot as the nominee of the Democratic Party after officially securing the nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where he will tirelessly campaign to earn every single vote in the Granite State next November,” Rodriguez wrote.
Biden ultimate yr prompt the Democratic National Committee to shake up the order of the 2024 primary, changing Iowa’s leadoff caucus with the South Carolina primary to higher empower Black and different minority electorate an important to the birthday celebration’s base. In February, the DNC approved a new 2024 calendar, starting with South Carolina’s primary on Feb. 3, adopted 3 days later by means of New Hampshire and Nevada.
But New Hampshire has balked at the plan, arguing that it has traditionally held the nation’s opening primary — a rule that Iowa only got around by having caucuses. Top New Hampshire Democrats say state law there mandates hosting the nation’s first primary, and officials have vowed to have a primary prior to South Carolina’s regardless of what the DNC says.
The DNC has warned that such a move would lead to an unsanctioned primary that could trigger sanctions, including New Hampshire potentially losing delegates to the 2024 Democratic convention in Chicago. In the meantime, New Hampshire voters will still be able to write in Biden’s name even during an unsanctioned primary, and some of the state’s top Democrats have organized an effort to encourage write-in support for the president.
New Hampshire has yet to set a formal date for its 2024 primary. But, in response to Chavez’s letter, Buckley released a statement saying, “The reality is that Joe Biden will win the New Hampshire first-in-the-nation primary in January, win renomination in Chicago and will be re-elected next November.”
Biden is not the primary sitting president to forgo showing on New Hampshire’s primary poll. In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t file for the state’s primary and still received by means of write-in, regardless that Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s sturdy second-place end within the state helped push Johnson to announce mere weeks later that he would not search reelection.