In addition to the Republicans, the Democrats also voted on their future candidate for the presidential election in New Hampshire. With a curious outcome: Although President Biden was not on any ballot papers, he won the primary election.
According to forecasts, US President Joe Biden has won the primary election for his party’s presidential nomination in New Hampshire. However, his success is more of a symbolic nature – because the delegate votes secured in the state will not be taken into account at the Democrats’ nomination convention in the summer.
Biden, who wants to run for a second term as president in November, was not even on the ballot in the primary election. Still, voters had the opportunity to write in his name. Biden’s supporters had campaigned for votes primarily for image reasons so as not to leave the president looking blank.
Democrats moved the start of the primary to South Carolina
The background is an internal dispute among the Democrats: the party leadership actually wanted to move the start of the primary election series to South Carolina – to a state with a more diverse electorate, in order to give the votes of black voters a larger stage. The vote there doesn’t take place until February 3rd.
New Hampshire didn’t want to lose its status as the first primary election state and insisted on its early voting date. Biden stuck to the party line and did not get on the ballot in New Hampshire. Only largely unknown candidates who had little chance were listed there. As the incumbent, Biden has no serious competition in the Democratic primaries.