- President Joe Biden may be forced to abstain from the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire.
- New DNC rules championed by Biden have demoted Iowa and New Hampshire on the primary calendar. But either way, the state intends to hold elections early.
- DNC rules prohibit candidates from adding their names to ballots in non-calendar states.
President Joe Biden’s newly launched 2024 re-election campaign hasn’t gotten off to a smooth start.
One of Biden’s challengers could be poised to secure the first run of the season, and the incumbent president risks losing an early state nomination to a lesser-known candidate. exposed to NBC News report.
New Primary Calendar Ratified By Democratic National Committee – At Biden’s Request – Downgrading Iowa and New Hampshire From his longstanding position as the first electorate of the primary season. As a result, candidates are prohibited from campaigning or even adding their names to ballots in states that refuse to adhere to the calendar.
Both Iowa and New Hampshire have long enjoyed great influence as early voting states, scheduled Break the rules of the DNC Anyway, I will hold a contest soon.
That means that if Biden is going to follow his own rules, he’ll have to withdraw from two contests, and he’ll have to fight Democrats like self-help author Marianne Williamson and the best-known environmental lawyer these days, Robert Kennedy Jr. will open the way for challengers of for his anti-vaccination stance. According to NBC News, both said they would accept his DNC penalties for campaigning out of turn.
The DNC has not yet indicated what these penalties will be.
“We are still going to have the first presidential primary in the United States,” New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan said, according to NBC News. It’s up to him to put his name on the ballot.”
Scanlan added of Biden, “If he chooses not to put his name on the ballot, I’m sure Democrat voters in New Hampshire will put his name on the ballot.”