The mid-term water is barely beginning to boil, but somewhere, perhaps on the back burner, Democrats in the Granite State are trying to come up with a way to get back what they lost—their NH Primary. The people riding Joe Biden’s scatter-brained, dim-witted coattails took it from them because New Hampshire is too white. They’d like it back, but I can’t see how that will ever happen.
The American National Democratic Socialist Party (DNC, for short) is, in its current form, the same party that voted for and then “ran off” a white guy (David Hogg) so it could replace him with someone who was neither white nor a guy. They replaced him with Shasti Conrad, “the first South Asian American woman to lead a state political party.” Speaking of glass ceilings, Hogg could have claimed he was a woman who loves women and cross-dressing as a man. Male inmates do it all the time. It might have even saved him the DNC VP gig, but he’s either not that ballsey (odd given that yelling lies is what made him famous) or that creative.
This is the same party that picked Kamala Harris for their nominee—a woman of color. No one likes her. She’s a terrible speaker. Can’t articulate policy. She is, by all accounts, lazy, a horrible boss, and many Democratic insiders knew she was bad, but they tried her because their Biden lie had collapsed, it was short notice, and she wasn’t Donald Trump.
The NH Democrats’ Primary
Biden claimed they picked South Carolina to go first because New Hampshire wasn’t diverse enough. The truth is, NH’s primary voting Dems didn’t like him, and when they were told they had to (write-in campaign), he dropped out. Lessons learned all around? Perhaps, but that National political party isn’t going to take a primary from a state that is almost 25% black (South Carolina) and give to one that’s 5% (New Hampshire) even on a good day. It can’t. There is no amount of talking, bribing, or otherwise persuasive behavior that will convince the DNC to change the schedule to count New Hampshire first. It lacks diversity!
Keep in mind that the NH primary will still happen before any other. NH Law expects that. We will go first; it will be the Republicans’ primary, and Democrats will have to figure it out. In 2024, there were numerous choices on the Blue Ballot; lots of Democrat candidates roamed the state, just not Joe Biden.
On First in the Nation primary day, 79,460 Democrats wrote in Joe Biden. He won, at least on paper, and a few weeks later, further down the calendar, the DNC counted them. A few months later, everyone had to admit those lost-grandpa video clips weren’t deep fakes. The dude was mentally compromised, and everyone knew it, which explains why NHDEMS favor Bernie Sanders when he runs. You have to be mentally compromised to think Socialism will work or that you are getting your primary back.
The best Granite State Dems can hope for is that the party won’t take away delegates or punish those who campaign here if they behave out of turn. The candidates are already coming, so the latter seems unlikely, but the rest is as unclear as Kamala (who isn’t running) trying to explain a sandwich to a hat rack.
The one thing we can see is that identity politics will likely keep NHDEMS from officially reclaiming their first-in-the-nation spot. They could improve their odds by offering their mostly white voters a candidate of color, but they seem unable to manage this. They even import pasty white libs back to NH from DC (Maggie Goodlander) to replace the ones who retire (Ann Kuster). No people of color on the federal ballot. None. Ever.
They must be convinced New Hampshire Democrat primary voters are racist, which may be true.
Republicans, on the other hand, put up candidates of color all the time, but the Dems always vote for the white Democrat, so perhaps they are racist or they are admitting that ideology is the only thing that matters to them.
It could be both.
