(President) Biden Might Have Already Lost Iowa and New Hampshire. Here's Why. [View all]

[LudwigPastorius]

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-iowa-new-hampshire-primary-dnc-rules-2023-4

One of Biden's challengers may be poised to secure the first electoral contests of the season, putting the incumbent president at risk of losing early state nominations to lesser-known candidates, NBC News reported.

The new primary calendar ratified by the Democratic National Committee – at Biden's request – downgraded Iowa and New Hampshire from their longstanding positions as the first electoral hoorahs of the primary season. As a result, candidates are prohibited from campaigning — or even adding their names to the ballot — in any state that refuses to adhere to the calendar.

Both Iowa and New Hampshire, who have long enjoyed outsized influence as early-voting states, plan to buck the DNC rules and hold their contests early anyway.

That means that if Biden intends to follow his own rules, he would have to forfeit the two contests, clearing the way for Democratic challengers like Marianne Williamson, a self-help author, or Robert Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer best known these days for his anti-vaccine stance. Both have said they would accept the DNC's penalties for campaigning out of turn, NBC News reported.

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This is meaningless in the actual race for the nomination, BUT the refusal of Iowa and New Hampshire to follow the new primary schedule will allow the enemy to put a bad spin on the start of the president's reelection campaign.

Personally, I don't want to see RFK, jr. or Williamson win any delegates. The Democratic party doesn't need the woo woo anti-vaccination associations that would bring.