{"id":1957003,"date":"2023-06-26T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-got-a-big-problem-in-early-primary-state-thats-the-line-for-rfk-jr\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:39:13","slug":"bidens-got-a-big-problem-in-early-primary-state-thats-the-line-for-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-got-a-big-problem-in-early-primary-state-thats-the-line-for-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden faces major issue in key primary state: RFK Jr.&#8217;s stance."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-got-a-big-problem-in-early-primary-state-thats-the-line-for-rfk-jr%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1957003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Biden&#8217;s Got a Big Problem in Early Primary State: &#8216;That&#8217;s the Line for RFK Jr.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>After the messy 2020 Democratic nomination process, President Joe Biden had a brilliant idea: Why not move the first primary to South Carolina?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that the Palmetto State was where Biden managed to turn around a flailing, drowning campaign with a single endorsement (namely, then-House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, a local icon who threw his weight behind the former vice president as it seemed all but certain either Bernie Sanders or Mike Bloomberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-got-a-big-problem-in-early-primary-state-thats-the-line-for-rfk-jr\/\" title=\"Biden faces major issue in key primary state: RFK Jr.'s stance.\">late long-shot moneybags campaign<\/a> were the only contenders left).<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina, the Democrats said, represented America in a more diverse way \u2014 and would produce a candidate who looked more like America in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: There are more black Democratic voters in South Carolina, which makes things a heck of a lot easier to fend off a primary challenge from, oh, just randomly spitballing here, California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Not like he\u2019s positioning himself for a run or anything like that. Just, you know, picking a random guy. Who\u2019s definitely positioning himself for a presidential run.)<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party agreed with Biden, because of course it did.<\/p>\n<p>However, things don\u2019t work quite that easily \u2014 and now, instead of fending off his primary challengers, the move may have handed the New Hampshire primary to none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy as a presidential candidate is the Democrats\u2019 worst nightmare for a variety of reasons. There is the fact that, aside from his work as an environmentalist, he\u2019s also known for being opposed to every vaccine known to man, and (let\u2019s be frank here) not for very good reasons. As it turns out, he may finally have been right about one \u2014 and it happens to be just the one vaccine the Biden administration wanted to mandate every American take.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he\u2019s difficult to call a \u201cfringe\u201d candidate \u2014 because he\u2019s garnering support.<\/p>\n<p>The RealClearPolitics polling aggregate has him at 14 percent compared with Biden\u2019s 64 percent. Furthermore, only one poll taken in the past two months has him polling under double digits.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this was supposed to be a coronation for Biden, 64 percent vs. 14 percent doesn\u2019t look particularly great, particularly since the media have been scrambling to paint RFK Jr. as a cuckoo bird.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is this just a protest vote against a Biden administration that some Democrats see as insufficiently liberal, or that some independents feel is incompetent. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some of that, but there\u2019s also evidence of enthusiasm around the RFK Jr. campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">the line for @RobertKennedyJr at #porcfest pic.twitter.com\/FftYETfYgN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Kauffman  (@jeremykauffman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremykauffman\/status\/1671891789975007234?\">June 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the line for RFK Jr.,\u201d said Jeremy Kauffmann, a blockchain CEO and Free State Project supporter, in a minute-and-a-half video from one of the candidate\u2019s New Hampshire events last week. It\u2019s quite the queue.<\/p>\n<p>Now, fine. Biden did poorly in New Hampshire in 2020 and hasn\u2019t performed well there in his previous campaigns. But what does this have to do with Kennedy winning?<\/p>\n<p>Well, as Voice of America noted, the Granite State has a law protecting its first-in-the-nation primary status: If another state decides to schedule its primary before New Hampshire\u2019s, New Hampshire is required by law to then schedule its primary seven days before that state\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, New Hampshire Democrats are unwilling to give away their first-in-the-nation status, according to The Hill \u2014 a real problem in a swing state where blue-collar voters could swing to Trump and deliver him a few electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>As The Hill noted, \u201cBiden outraged many Democrats in the state when he proposed last year to make South Carolina the first to vote in the primary, citing its diversity, and putting it ahead of New Hampshire and Iowa, which had always gone first. Though the calendar hasn\u2019t been formally settled yet, many New Hampshire Democrats are already suggesting the state could defy the Democratic National Committee and hold their primary ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould that happen, Biden allies have indicated the president likely won\u2019t participate \u2014 leaving an opening for a candidate like Kennedy to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was President Biden\u2019s decision to deprive New Hampshire of its historic \u2018First in the Nation Primary\u2019 status,\u201d said RFK Jr. campaign manager Dennis Kucinich, himself a long-shot Democratic candidate in 2004 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision is to respect the people of New Hampshire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or at least to court them, aggressively. According to WMUR-TV in Manchester, Kennedy participated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-declares-chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide-as-biden-remains-silent\/\" title=\"Canadian Parliament Declares China\u2019s Treatment Of Uyghurs \u2018Genocide\u2019 As Biden Remains Silent\">recent town hall event<\/a> in the state in which he compared his campaign to his father\u2019s doomed 1968 presidential bid \u2014 which ended in RFK Sr.\u2019s assassination shortly after a win in the California primary \u2014 and said he could unite the country in the same way he predicted his father would have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad had faced the same thing when he ran for president against the sitting president of his own party. The same as I\u2019m doing,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, my father \u2026 succeeded in uniting the country,\u201d he continued, noting his father\u2019s wins in the late stages of the 1968 primary race came in both the country\u2019s most urban and most rural states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had succeeded in bridging that gap. This was at a time that was almost as polarized as we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy also courted immigration hawks who were frustrated with the Biden administration\u2019s border policy, saying that \u201cno country can survive if it can\u2019t control its borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Biden loses New Hampshire, let\u2019s not be fooled: This won\u2019t be a slingshot that delivers the nomination to RFK Jr. However, it\u2019s also worth noting that no sitting president has lost a state in the modern primary system and gone on to win the general election. (And for that matter, only two have lost states, period: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.)<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a win in New Hampshire \u2014 and perhaps in Iowa, where voters also aren\u2019t exactly plussed at Biden\u2019s decision \u2014 could see RFK Jr.\u2019s numbers rise significantly. NewsNation noted that Iowa officials have said they intend to keep a caucus date before South Carolina as well.<\/p>\n<p>It would be difficult for any candidate, even a sitting president, to justify refusing to debate a candidate drawing 20- and 30-percent poll results. That could compound an already lousy situation, given that Biden seems to struggle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diminutive-beta-prince-harry-meghan-markle-mocked-over-time-magazine-cover-photo\/\" title=\"\u2018Diminutive,\u2019 \u2018Beta\u2019: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Mocked Over Time Magazine Cover Photo\">scripted public appearances<\/a> these days.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, though, the brewing New Hampshire debacle is a delightfully perfect metaphor for the entire Biden administration thus far.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his consiglieres sought to preclude any kind of challenge to an aging commander-in-chief by reshuffling the primary calendar to suit him.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s not quite so easy \u2014 and instead of heading off a Gavin Newsom or Amy Klobuchar, they\u2019ve potentially handed victory to a man the party has branded as a dangerous conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n<p>Nice work.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-got-big-problem-early-primary-state-line-rfk-jr\/\">Biden&#8217;s Got a Big Problem in Early Primary State: &#8216;That&#8217;s the Line for RFK Jr.&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the chaotic 2020 Democratic nomination, President Joe Biden proposed a smart solution: shifting the initial primary to South Carolina. This state played a crucial role in reviving Biden&#8217;s struggling campaign when he received a significant endorsement from local figure James Clyburn, then-House Majority Whip. Hence, it made sense to consider South Carolina for the first primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":1957004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}