Joe Biden’s supporters are working to avoid an embarrassment in New Hampshire, where his name will not be on the ballot.
The effort is designed to prevent President Joe Biden from suffering an embarrassment in what’s traditionally been the first primary state. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTop New Hampshire Democrats on Monday launched a write-in campaign for President Joe Biden, days after the president passed on putting his name on the primary ballot there.
The write-in campaign is being spearheaded by veteran Democratic operatives and politicians including Jim Demers and Kathy Sullivan, a former state Democratic Party chair. And it’s backed by a who’s who of other top New Hampshire Democrats — including every Democratic state senator, both Democrats running for governor and former Reps. Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter. The group filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission under the name “Granite State Write-In.
But New Hampshire law requires the state to hold its primary before any similar contest, and Republicans who control state government and the secretary of state who sets the primary date refused to bend to the DNC. Other Democrats are now seizing on the opening Biden created in New Hampshire to elevate their longshot bids. The latest: Phillips, who pledged to restore the state’s lead-off status as he launched his primary challenge to Biden on Friday in Concord. He’s beingNew Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan said he’s “strongly” recommending that local election officials bring in “additional help” for processing a potentially large number of write-ins.
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