Ms. Williamson also told The Epoch Times about her platform and why she opposes efforts to keep former President Donald Trump from primary ballots.
In a campaign trail interview with The Epoch Times, presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson said President Joe Biden’s absence from New Hampshire’s Democratic primary ballot was an insult to the state.
“I just hope that the New Hampshire voter will recognize this as the slap in the face that it is and not reward the president for such outrageously undemocratic behavior,” the Democrat said in Keene, New Hampshire. She spoke after holding a campaign event at a public library in the small city.
Local Democrats in the state are leading a write-in campaign for President Biden complete with a website and supportive appearances from the likes of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other national figures in the party.
The incumbent president’s glaring absence from his party’s first primary is downstream of a dispute between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and New Hampshire about the 2024 primary season.
In February 2023, the DNC voted to slate South Carolina’s primary first, preempting both New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary and Iowa’s caucus.
The move came after President Biden wrote a DNC committee in December 2022 regarding the order of primary season contests. The missive stressed racial diversity and, in particular, the role of black voters.
“We must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window… Our early states must reflect the overall diversity of our party and our nation,” the president’s letter reads.
New Hampshire is among the whitest (and least black) states in the country.
“Denying the people of this state because we’re too white is a shame,” Bill Gardner, the former secretary of state of New Hampshire, told The Epoch Times.
