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MacDonald: Do NH Dems Think They Can Get Their ‘Primary’ Groove Back?

It hardly matters what the DNC thinks about the actual voting. The State primary will be when it is, and Dems will have to show up...

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There is a state law that says New Hampshire has to be the first primary in the presidential election process. This means that no matter when another state sets its primary date, New Hampshire has to set one earlier. You can say what you like, but NH has made it a statutory requirement that we hold the first primary.

New Hampshire Democrats, despite having numerous opportunities to offer a minority candidate for high public office, continue to find and push some of the palest, whitest, proglodytes on their ideological plantation. This, combined with the Granite State’s majority-white population (and Joe Biden’s never doing well here except as a write-in in 2024 before he dropped out), convinced the (D)EI party to pick someplace else they view as a bit browner.

That was 2024. What’s up with 2028? New Hampshire is still too white.

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Given that the (D)EI is the primary driver of policy at the DNC, and how New Hampshire Dems are so racist that they don’t think they can get a person of color nominated to run for Congress, any official recognition of their part of the First In The Nation Primary seems unlikely.

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