Wasn’t on the ballot
Biden wins strange primary in New Hampshire
January 24, 2024, 10:56 a.m
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Not only the Republicans, but also the Democrats voted in New Hampshire on their future candidate for the presidential election. With a strange ending. Even though President Joe Biden wasn’t on any ballot papers, he won the primary.
US President Joe Biden has won the unofficial primary election for his Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the state of New Hampshire. The special thing about it: Biden wasn’t even on the ballot. The participants voted for him as a “write-in candidate”, meaning they entered his name themselves. Background to the manual work: Joe Biden did not officially stand for the primary election in New Hampshire because there was a dispute between the Democratic party leadership and New Hampshire.
The party leadership in Washington had actually wanted to move the start of its primary election series to South Carolina. The Democrats are hoping for a greater response there and they pointed to the southern state’s more diverse electorate. For example, the votes of black voters would have greater weight. The vote in South Carolina isn’t due until February 3rd.
New Hampshire disagreed. The state – including the Democrats there – did not want to lose its status as the first pre-election state after the primary mode and insisted on its early voting date on January 23rd. However, Biden stuck to the party line and was not on the ballot in New Hampshire. Only largely unknown candidates were listed there who practically have no chance. Overall, incumbent Biden has no real competition in the Democratic primaries.
Because of the dispute, the Democratic party headquarters has declared the primary election in New Hampshire inadmissible. Biden’s victory is therefore purely symbolic in nature, because the delegate votes from New Hampshire will not be taken into account at the Democratic nomination convention in November. The official start of the democratic primaries is now as planned by the party leadership on February 3rd in South Carolina.
At 81, is Biden the right candidate?
The presidential election in the USA will take place on November 5th. Incumbent Biden has practically already been confirmed as the candidate; he has no serious competitors. However, many Democratic politicians and voters have doubts that Biden, at 81, is the right candidate. He is already the oldest president in US history.
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden won against Donald Trump, who had a four-year term marked by chaos and scandals and who still does not recognize Biden’s election victory.
The ex-president came one step closer to his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday: Trump prevailed in New Hampshire against his only remaining competitor, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. After more than half of the votes were counted, the 77-year-old was around ten percentage points ahead of the 52-year-old.