New Hampshire Dems say Biden’s primary calendar change will ‘wreak havoc’ in the state

New Hampshire Democrats consider proposed modifications to the first schedule championed by President Biden will “wreak havoc” within the state. 

A letter despatched to White Home chief of employees Ronald Klain and deputy chief of employees Jen O’Malley Dillon on Tuesday urged the 80-year-old president to rethink his assist for shifting New Hampshire out of its slot because the first-in-the-nation major, Politico reported.

The letter’s signatories embody former New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, former Reps. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.), and greater than a dozen different Granite State Democrats. 

The pols argue that making South Carolina the primary major state in 2024 would put New Hampshire Democrats on the poll subsequent yr in jeopardy. 

“Whereas we share your need to raise extra various voices within the course of, we consider that the proposed schedule might wreak havoc on Democrats up and down the ticket in New Hampshire and unnecessarily jeopardize 4 vital electoral votes in your re-election marketing campaign,” reads the letter obtained by Politico. 

The Democratic Nationwide Committee voted final month to take away Iowa as the primary caucus state and transfer New Hampshire additional down the first schedule, shifting South Carolina as much as the No. 1 slot,  in an effort, backed by Biden, at rising variety within the presidential nominating contest.

Final month, each of New Hampshire’s Democratic US senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, skipped the White Home congressional ball in protest of the proposal. 

“As Senator Shaheen has mentioned, the President’s proposal unnecessarily makes Democrats in New Hampshire, from the highest to the underside of the ticket, susceptible in 2024,” Sarah Weinstein, a spokeswoman for Shaheen, informed The Publish on the time.

Underneath the brand new association, the Palmetto State would maintain its major on Feb. 3, 2024. Nevada and New Hampshire will maintain their primaries three days later, adopted by Georgia on Feb. 13 and Michigan on Feb. 27.

Hassan known as the Biden-backed plan “deeply misguided” final month.

“I strongly oppose the President’s deeply misguided proposal for modifications to the first calendar. Make no mistake, New Hampshire’s legislation is obvious and our major will proceed to be First within the Nation,” Hassan wrote on Twitter final month. 

New Hampshire Democrats’ letter to the White Home on Tuesday additionally mentioned the plan places their candidates in a “no-win place” and makes the state susceptible to being taken over by Republicans.

“New Hampshire Republicans have begun to make use of this transfer to assault New Hampshire Democrats – an assault that they’re already capitalizing on within the 2024 election cycle, when every part from the state legislature and governorship to the 2 battleground Congressional seats and presidency shall be at stake,” the letter reads.

“We’re particularly involved about how this can impression your re-election,” the signatories add, referring to Biden.