2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden talks with fellow candidate Marianne Williamson (L) at the Wing Ding Dinner on August 9, 2019 in Clear Lake, Iowa. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Not only are many of President Joe Biden s most high-profile Democratic challengers having difficulty making a dent in national polling, but they re also running into a major snafu in their efforts to replace him: getting onto state ballots in the first place.
Rep. Dean Phillips, author Marianne Williamson and progressive commentator Cenk Uygur have encountered roadblocks in Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Massachusetts which they allege without evidence have been placed, at least in part, by the national Democratic Party, or even the president himself as part of a broader conspiracy between the "party elites" and state chapters to bend the process in Biden s favor.
Both state and national groups, for their part, unequivocally deny the
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