Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Biden is LITERALLY abandoning New Hampshire..... [View all]democrattotheend
(12,011 posts)In 2016, didn't Hillary and Bernie always speak to supporters in whatever state had a primary (unless more than 1 had primaries on the same day)? I'm almost positive that's how it was in 2008.
I like Biden a lot but this is a bad move on his part. He will lose even more votes in NH because of this, and the people who have been working hard for him there are probably going to be pissed about it and may decide they have better things to do with their day today than GOTV for him. His comment at the debate that he didn't expect to win already alienated at least a couple NH people who had planned to volunteer for him over the weekend, according to Politico. NH voters and activists have a very entitled mentality, and while I agree that candidates shouldn't keep cowtowing to it, the time to decide he wasn't going to give them their due was months ago, not the day of the primary.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided