U.S. President Joe Biden won an overwhelming victory in the New Hampshire primary to elect the Democratic presidential candidate on the 23rd (local time). President Biden did not register as a candidate in the New Hampshire primary, so his name was excluded from the ballot. However, President Biden did not lose face as supporters showed their support through ‘write-in votes’ by directly writing President Biden’s name.
President Biden won the Democratic Party’s New Hampshire primary on this day with a gap of more than 20 percentage points over Congressman Dean Phillips and author Mary Ann Williamson. As the Democratic National Committee (DNC) selected South Carolina as the first primary location, this primary was an ‘unofficial primary’ that did not receive central party approval. In particular, President Biden’s name was missing from the ballot paper as he declared his absence. In response, voters expressed their support by writing ‘Biden’ directly on the paper.
“I want to thank everyone who wrote my name in New Hampshire this evening,” President Biden said in a statement. “It was a historic testament to their commitment to our democratic process.” Representative Phillips congratulated President Biden, but said, “By no means did a strong incumbent president win the way he should have.”
With both President Biden and former President Donald Trump winning the New Hampshire primary, there is an analysis that the faceoff structure for the November presidential election has in fact been confirmed early on. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, director of the Biden presidential campaign, issued a statement on this day, saying, “As we move toward November (when the presidential election is held), one fact is becoming increasingly clear. “We’re heading into the general election where Trump will face Biden, the only person who beat him,” he said.
However, in recent opinion polls, President Biden is lagging behind former President Trump. According to a poll of 2,346 voters conducted on the 17th and 18th by Harvard University’s Institute of American Politics and public opinion research firm Harris Poll, President Biden (41%) had a 7 percentage point gap with former President Trump (48%). I searched.
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