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New Hampshire may have mattered for Biden after all

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04.02.2024

New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary may end up counting, after all.

Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison suggested on Saturday that he’s open to finding a way to seat New Hampshire’s delegates at this summer’s nominating convention, after President Joe Biden won the state’s unsanctioned primary last month.

Doing so would be a remarkable — but not unprecedented — about-face for the DNC, which stripped the Granite State of its favored position on the nominating calendar, elevating South Carolina to the lead-off spot for this cycle at Biden’s request.

The change prompted a bitter intraparty feud. But if New Hampshire’s delegates are seated come summer, the state might have the venerable South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn to thank for it.

Minutes after Biden was projected to win South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, Clyburn, standing beside Harrison at a watch party there, called on the DNC to seat New Hampshire’s delegates, citing the New Hampshire law requiring the state to hold its primary a week before any similar contest.

“I believe, Jaime, that it’s time for us to ask our Rules........

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