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Politics is weird sometimes. Here was a thing that by law, didn’t matter. But still, it did kind of matter. By winning write in, it gets harder for the media to pretend that any of the also-rans are relevant to the race.
If someone else had won, that would be the only story today. Nothing would be juicier media than a sitting president losing a primary. The fact that Biden wasn’t on the ballot would fade into the background. Every news headline today would boil down to “trump strong, Biden weak”. And we’d slide just that much closer to dictatorship.
Do you mean the Republicans? As far as I could tell, the major networks basically ignored the Democrat hopefuls
Why wouldn't they?
The DNC stripped NH of their delegates because the Republicans in charge of the state government wouldn't change the state law that says NH has to hold their primary first. So the Dem primary results literally don't matter...
What's weird is the major networks are ignoring that and acting like Biden winning zero delegates means anything.
It's ironic, because under fascism, they wouldn't be able to be journalists. They'd have to write fake pieces that are approved by the State, and most news orgs would be shut down in service to that.
They're digging their own graves.