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This is the best summary I could come up with:
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Like a jilted lover reluctantly coming to the aid of a former partner in need, New Hampshire Democrats have largely decided to help Joe Biden win their beloved primary this month — even though many are still mad he tried to kill it.
But his performance against weak opposition from Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and self-help author Marianne Williamson will nonetheless be judged as a measure of his political health at a moment when Democrats are already anxious about his campaign.
Biden ended up in this strange predicament when he tried last year to do what many Democrats say is long overdue: Dethrone overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire and add more diversity to the top of the presidential primary process.
Armed with a century of history, its swing state status and a law mandating New Hampshire hold its primary a week before any others, the Republicans who control the government in Concord had no qualms about ignoring the DNC.
There are 21 other Democrats on the ballot — New Hampshire makes it easy to run for office — and the space to write in Biden’s name comes directly under that of Vermin Supreme, the perennial candidate known for wearing a boot on his head.
And New Hampshire Democrats are convinced Biden is not going anywhere, careful to direct all their criticism at the DNC and not at the president himself, like feudal lords excoriating the king’s ministers while praising the man on the throne.
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Completely missed why Biden needs to be written in, the article makes no sense without that.
Because he didn't register to be on the ballot since NH threw a hissy fit over not being directly after the Iowa caucus as it has been since forever. So the DNC removed their delegates for choosing a presidential candidate and now the NH primary has no baring in choosing the democratic candidate for president.
From the article: (emphasis mine)
nobody has any bearing for choosing a democratic candidate for president this year
This is the same “BerNiE or BuST” democratic voters’ strategy that gave us Trump in 2016.