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Rep. Dean Phillips (DFL-MN) has launched a pointless bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. So has Marianne Williamson. They will both be on the New Hampshire primary ballot. Biden will not be on the ballot, although Democrats can write him in. If Joe Biden loses New Hampshire, the headlines the next day won't be kind to him.
Phillips and Williamson also want to get on the ballot in other states, but the DNC is fighting that everywhere. Yesterday, the DNC won a round when the North Carolina Board of Elections unanimously decided that Biden will be the only Democrat on the ballot. There is a state law that requires 10,000 registered members of a party to sign a petition to add a candidate to the ballot and Biden is the only Democrat who made the cut. And if Biden wins New Hampshire on write-in votes alone, that pretty much finishes up all the other would-be Democratic nominees. (V)