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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Democrats restore New Hampshire’s convention delegates after | |
party-run nominating event | |
By Ethan Cohen, CNN | |
Updated: | |
7:29 PM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Democrats will send a full delegation to this summer’s Democratic | |
National Convention after the national party’s rules committee voted | |
Tuesday to approve a nominating event the state party held Saturday. | |
The New Hampshire Democrats have not released formal results from the | |
event, but the state will get 25 pledged delegates, as well nine | |
automatic delegates (also known as superdelegates), according to a plan | |
the committee approved Tuesday. | |
The vote resolves a conflict between the state and national parties | |
over the timing of . | |
“We, as a committee and as a national committee, have gone through a | |
difficult number of weeks and months getting to this point and I know | |
that New Hampshire has gone through a difficult number of weeks and | |
months, where some things we’d liked to have seen take place did | |
not,” rules co-chair Jim Roosevelt said during Tuesday’s meeting. | |
“As it happens, all that is behind us now. We have worked out | |
compliance with our rules and with the charter.” | |
Democrats to prioritize more diverse states among the early contests. | |
Under the plan, South Carolina replaced New Hampshire as the . But | |
Granite State law requires its primary to be held first. | |
New Hampshire Democrats refused to comply with the new schedule and | |
chose to participate in the state-run contest in January, before any | |
other primary. | |
Because the election was not sanctioned by the DNC, the results | |
didn’t count toward allocating convention delegates and President Joe | |
Biden didn’t campaign in the state (although he won the primary as a | |
write-in candidate). | |
Both of Biden’s highest-profile Democratic challengers, Minnesota | |
Rep. Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson, chose to participate | |
in the state-run primary. Campaigning in the unsanctioned contest was a | |
violation of DNC rules, and so both were deemed ineligible for the | |
weekend’s party-run process and could not win pledged delegates from | |
New Hampshire. | |
Three months later, with Biden’s nomination assured, Tuesday’s move | |
allows the national party to hold the line on not recognizing the | |
noncompliant New Hampshire state-run primary, while still allowing | |
delegates from the Granite State to attend the convention. | |
“I know that we have had some challenging moments,” Joanne Dowdell, | |
a member of the committee from New Hampshire, said. “But we are now | |
focused squarely on the November election and reelecting President� | |
Biden and Vice President Harris.” | |
This story has been updated with additional details. | |
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