Not wanting to let Republicans grab the spotlight this week leading up to New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary on Jan. 23, Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Tuesday she will be in the Granite State to campaign for President Joe Biden.
Wu, who caused a firestorm in December for playing host to an “electeds of color” holiday party in which white guests were not allowed, will be taking part in two of what her campaign described as “small, regional write-in Biden events” at 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, the Boston Herald reported.
“At some events, volunteers will be joined by New Hampshire and national leaders including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu,” Wu’s campaign said in a news release, the Herald reported. “These are locally managed, grassroots events — mostly small gatherings of friends and neighbors.”
Even though the Democratic National Committee moved South Carolina’s primary to first on its schedule Feb. 3, under Biden’s direction, a state law requires New Hampshire to hold the nation’s first presidential primary, which it has done since 1920. The other Democrats challenging Biden, author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, are on the primary ballot but Biden is not.
The only way Biden can win is through a write-in campaign, and without Biden personally appearing in New Hampshire, more attention likely will be gobbled up by Republicans, especially former President Donald Trump, who is riding high after a landslide victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses and leads in polling in the Granite State among GOP candidates.
“We don’t have a choice but to work as hard as we possibly can to try to explain what’s at stake here,” Wu said Tuesday during an appearance on Boston Public Radio, the Herald reported. “It’s a moment in our political history, in our country’s history where it feels like people are not talking to each other and one set of information is just staying within a certain space.”
Wu said from watching interviews on the night of the Iowa caucuses, that people were choosing to vote a certain way out of a “larger feeling of disillusionment and anxiety,” the Herald reported.
“We know what happens,” Wu said. “We know what is going to happen if it goes down that route.”
Michael Katz ✉
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