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Sort of. The DNC wanted to move the South Carolina primary up to be before New Hampshire, but New Hampshire has a law requiring their primary to be first. The DNC said if they scheduled their primary before the South Carolina primary, the results would be invalid.
New Hampshire still wanted to be first, so they scheduled ahead of South Carolina.
The DNC followed through on their threat and took away New Hampshire's delegates.
Biden refused to register in a demonstration of support for the DNC (of which he is ostensibly a leader).
The results won't matter, but this year there isn't much doubt about who will be the nominee. It will be interesting to see what happens in 2028 when there isn't an incumbent President in the primary. If neither side relents, New Hampshire Democrats won't have any say in their nominee. But New Hampshire rarely picks a winner, anyway, so maybe people just won't care?
So....
They're telling an entire state their votes don't matter and it's Biden or nothing...
Why do you sound like you think the destruction of American democracy is a good thing?
Even if you don't care and you just want Biden to win...
Don't you think this will depress turnout nationwide?
It was bad enough when the DNC just said primaries don't matter, now they're straight up canceling them
they're telling the entire country that, by making NH an example.
It sounds more like NH was betting they could call a bluff.
One of the dangers is that sometimes it's not actually a bluff.