Allies want voters to write Joe Biden in on the 2024 New Hampshire primary election ballot anyway.

Back in 2020 he was a supposed frontrunner struggling to look like one, fresh off a sluggish performance in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. He asked New Hampshire voters to help him flip the narrative and deliver him a comeback. He snarked back at critics, belittled a younger challenger and called one woman “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event.

Then he skipped his own campaign party, headed to South Carolina, and finished a distant fifth in New Hampshire’s primary, faring worse than the former mayor of a midsized Midwestern city.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    6 months ago

    the parties do not even need to hold primaries, it’s a party function not a fed requirement.

    That’s the problem…

    Saying I’m “totally cool” is an exaggeration but I really don’t understand why the state wouldn’t simply move their date if they wanted the primary.

    Because the states are in charge of when and how they determine delegates…

    The state (whose decision it is) decided one thing.

    Biden and the DNC (who have zero authority) wanted something else. When they didn’t get what they wanted, they took the entire states delegates away.

    They’re punishing every registered Dem voter in NH and it will effect general turnout

    I don’t know what you don’t understand, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to explain anything to you, so I’m going to save us both the hassle in the future.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      6 months ago

      The DNC is not a federal agency, it is private. A State may make their own decisions in comparison to private entities. If they wish to keep their primaries where they are and the DNC wants to have South Carolina first, what do you think is going to happen? They have authority over their own organization. If a State wants to go ahead with its own desires they do not get to force the DNC to bow to them just like they couldn’t force the RNC. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding about how these entities interact and who holds what authority.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        6 months ago

        Me:

        Explain a problem and why the system should change

        Moderates who don’t think it’s a problem:

        But it’s leeeeegal!

        The issue is that it’s a private entity that can do whatever they want and if people don’t do what they say, then a Republican wins.

        What is complicated about that?

        Why defend something that is obviously undemocratic just because that’s currently the way it is?

        • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          6 months ago

          Go start your own party, with blackjack and hookers. Then you can decide who should run in the general for your party, by whatever means you see fit.

          And I mean this sincerely. We desperately need more parties.