Joe Biden.Photo:Jonathan Ernst - Pool/Getty

Joe Biden

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New Hampshire scheduled its Democratic primary election before the other 49 states, defying the DNC’s guidance to let South Carolina go first, a plan that Biden himself proposed. If Biden had filed to appear on New Hampshire’s primary ballot, he, too, would be defying the DNC.

Rodriguez added in the letter that Biden’s name will be on New Hampshire’s general election ballot in November, however.

President Joe Biden, standing with wife Jill Biden and children Ashley and Hunter Biden, at his 2021 inauguration.Rob Carr/Getty

Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President as his wife Dr. Jill Biden looks on during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC

“Consistent with New Hampshire law and the Secretary of State’s guidance, the president looks forward to having his name on New Hampshire’s general election ballot as the nominee of the Democratic Party after officially securing the nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention where he will tirelessly campaign to earn every single vote in the Granite State next November,” Rodriguez wrote, per NBC News.

While New Hampshire and Iowa are traditionally the first presidential primary voting states, Democrats have criticized those states as not being diverse enough to be representative of the electorate at large.

Joe Biden on Jan. 19, 2021, one day before being inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president.Chip Somodevilla/ Staff/Getty Images

NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE - JANUARY 19: One day before being inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center January 19, 2021 in New Castle, Delaware. The reserve center is named for Beau Biden, Joe Biden’s oldest child and who served as attorney general of Delaware and a major in the state’s National Guard before dying of brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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DNC chair Jaime Harrison said at the time that the calendar change was “long overdue.”

“It puts Black voters at the front of the process in South Carolina. It keeps Nevada, where Latinos have been building power … The Democratic Party looks like America,” Harrison added, “and so does this proposal.”

While Biden will not be among the listed candidates on the ballot, New Hampshire voters can still write in the president’s name, and it is highly likely that he will still win the state’s primary.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk and talk on the White House grounds.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Joe Biden,Kamala Harris

Biden formallyannounced his 2024 reelection campaign in April— and committed to keeping Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate — saying American voters are “in a battle for the soul of America.”

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom; more rights or fewer,” Biden said at the time. “I know what I want the answer to be and I think you do too. This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for reelection — because I know America.”

Presidential candidate Nikki Haley, the only major challenger to Donald Trump remaining in the 2024 presidential race.Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during a campaign event in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024.

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On Tuesday, Republicans in New Hampshire will also take the polls asNikki Haleyhopes to secure enough delegates to prove that she can take onDonald Trump.

Ron DeSantis, who was polling around 6% in the state, dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday and endorsed Trump, hoping to give the former president an extra boost in the final hour.

source: people.com