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President Joe Biden will win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to early projections, which seem to have addressed the anxiety of concerned Democrats that his lagging enthusiasm over his campaign and the absence of his name from the ballot could add up to an embarrassing defeat.
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Biden’s supporters were set to launch an unofficial write-in campaign for the President to encourage rank-and-file Democrats to go to the polls to show their support for Biden.
The current President was not among the 21 candidates listed on the ballot after New Hampshire defied the primary calendar set by the National Democratic Party. His win will be ‘symbolic’, and his supporters will welcome the result as a positive sign of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old’s re-election bid this November.
Technically, though, because Biden did not register for the primary, the result did not yield any nominating delegates.
The by-product of the infighting in the Democratic Party was an unusually tense run-up to the contest amid concerns that the President, already struggling to excite the Democratic base, could fail to rouse enough support to avoid what would have been a mortifying result, CNN reported.
As those worries grew, Biden surrogates began to promote a write-in campaign aimed at Granite State Democrats and the “undeclared” independents who wanted a say in the Democratic primary.
However, he himself did not campaign in New Hampshire.
Earlier on Tuesday in northern Virginia, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a rally for abortion rights as part of the soft launch of their 2024 general election campaign, CNN reported.
Biden’s absence from the ballot is the most clear fallout from his and the DNC’s decision to push South Carolina to the front of the primary calendar in a nod to its diversity and role in rejuvenating the former vice president’s 2020 primary campaign.
New Hampshire decided to schedule its primary ahead of South Carolina’s anyway, in accordance with their own laws, creating a standoff that ultimately led the DNC to call the results “meaningless” before a vote was cast.
Notably, the Biden campaign knows that Trump’s win in New Hampshire could amount to the start of a rematch of the last presidential elections.
