Washington:
President Joe Biden received New Hampshire’s unofficial Democratic major on Tuesday, regardless of not even showing on the poll.
After Biden and the Democratic Occasion scrapped New Hampshire’s function internet hosting the standard first-in-the-nation major, following the Iowa caucuses, it’s Democrats in South Carolina who will formally maintain the primary vote, on February 3.
However New Hampshire — whose motto is “Stay Free or Die” — selected to buck the nationwide occasion’s directive and proceed with its ballot anyway.
Because of this, no delegates will probably be awarded from the vote, rendering it merely symbolic within the general nomination course of.
Nonetheless, a last-second write-in marketing campaign was launched by Biden supporters to stop two would-be challengers from swooping in unopposed to assert a meaningless however nonetheless embarrassing win.
The 2 comparatively minor figures, Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, stand subsequent to no probability of wounding Biden, no matter they fight: no major challenger has ever taken the nomination from an incumbent president within the trendy political period.
Biden has a historical past in New Hampshire. He misplaced badly within the overwhelmingly white state in his bid for the Democratic nomination in 2020 and was solely rescued by robust help from African Individuals within the South Carolina major.
As soon as elected, he successfully dethroned New Hampshire, together with fellow early nominating state Iowa, instructing the occasion management to put South Carolina forward of each.
Iowa caved quietly however the transfer angered Democrats in New Hampshire, the place first-in-the-nation standing is an extended custom.
On the Republican aspect, New Hampshire was seen as a key take a look at for whether or not Donald Trump would keep his grip on the Republican Occasion, regardless of his 4 separate legal indictments.
He handed with flying colours, sweeping the northeastern state from his solely severe remaining Republican challenger, former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley — who nonetheless pledged that the race was “removed from over.”
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