Due to Schedule Impasse, RFK Jr. Appears Poised to Win New Hampshire Primary

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By Alice Giordano
June 16, 2023Updated: June 16, 2023

In what some Republican leaders are calling a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, President Joe Biden could lose his own party nomination to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in New Hampshire’s historically important primary in the race for the presidency.

Biden’s successful push to re-calendar New Hampshire’s long-standing First in the Nation primary, making it second to South Carolina, means the president’s name will likely not appear on the state’s Democrat primary ballot.

Both Republican and Democrat leaders in New Hampshire have meanwhile vowed not to yield to the schedule change and have cited a state law that prohibits the move anyway.

That leaves RFK Jr. and Marianne Willamson to take the state’s Democrat nomination. Biden’s recent vow not to campaign in the Granite State increases the already high likelihood that Biden’s name won’t be on the ballot.

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[Kamaji]

[Free Vulcan]

Salient point. Parties have power over caucuses and conventions, but not over primaries. Those are set by state law and states are sovereign over primary elections even more so than the general.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

 

[GrouchoTex]

Interesting.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Joe's trying to fix the 2024 Dem Primary just like Hillary tried in 2016.  Joe is trying to shortcircuit any whippersnapper punk challenegers from stealing his Primary thunder.

It was Hillary Clinton's loss to Obama in the Iowa Caucuses that derailed her 2008 attempt to get Dem nomination. 

To avoid a repeat of the 2008 Dem Primary, Hillary made damn sure the 2016 Dem Primary was rigged in her favor.  The result - the Dems nominated the Dem whom Trump could most easily defeat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

[Free Vulcan]

Salient point. Parties have power over caucuses and conventions, but not over primaries. Those are set by state law and states are sovereign over primary elections even more so than the general.

And just recalled that South Carolina is also a primary. Wonder how that's going to work as well.

[Hoodat]

Salient point. Parties have power over caucuses and conventions, but not over primaries. Those are set by state law and states are sovereign over primary elections even more so than the general.

You clearly don't understand how fascism works.

[jmyrlefuller]

Salient point. Parties have power over caucuses and conventions, but not over primaries. Those are set by state law and states are sovereign over primary elections even more so than the general.

The parties don't have to recognize them, though, nor seat the delegates assigned.

That will likely be the cop-out the Democrats use.

[Free Vulcan]

The parties don't have to recognize them, though, nor seat the delegates assigned.

That will likely be the cop-out the Democrats use.

Agree, but the state is likely to win in court.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Agree, but the state is likely to win in court.

I wouldn't bet on it.  I don't think a state can (or should) tell a national political party who it must accept as delegates.  The state likely can say "these are the delegates from this state", but if the National Committee says "that's nice, but we don't recognize their right to vote in our national convention, my guess is the DNC wins.

[Free Vulcan]

I wouldn't bet on it.  I don't think a state can (or should) tell a national political party who it must accept as delegates.  The state likely can say "these are the delegates from this state", but if the National Committee says "that's nice, but we don't recognize their right to vote in our national convention, my guess is the DNC wins.

True, but the state could refuse recognize their choice and not put them on the ballot in the general.

That gray area could be a very interesting court case.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Don't forget the Dems have designated "Super Delegates".

This mechanism was created by the Dem Establishent after the Dem electorate selected libs, Mondale and Dukakis, in the '84 and '88 primaries, only for Dems to get blown out in those General Presidential Elections.

It was "Super Delegates" that helped bring Dem Centrist, BIll Clinton, to power at the Dem 1992 Convention.

The Clintons leaned on "Super Delegates" in 2008 and 2016 Dem Primaries to help put Hillary at the top of those Dem Presidential Tickets.

 

But, those cow-pie tossers in the 2008 Iowa Dem Caucuses had the audacity to give the win to Obama over Hillary.  Imagine that.