Joe Biden WINS New Hampshire's Democratic primary despite NOT being on the ballot: President defeats Dean Phillips after write-in campaign

President Joe Biden won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday despite not being on the ballot.

The Associated Press called Biden's victory shortly after polls closed in the state at 8 p.m

Democrats in the Granite State launched a write-in campaign to propel the president to victory after the Democratic National Committee, with Biden's blessing, reshuffled this year's Democratic primaries.

South Carolina will hold its first official Democratic primary on February 3. But New Hamsphire law and the state's Republican-led government did not allow the date of the nation's first primary election to be moved, forcing Democrats to go to the polls on Tuesday. .

They could choose to write in Biden or pick one of his rivals, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips or self-help guru Marianne Williamson.

With about 50 percent of the vote, Biden appeared to receive about 61 percent of the vote, compared to Phillips' 21 percent and Williamson's 4.4 percent.

In a statement from his campaign, Biden thanked supporters for writing his name and said the Republican result — a Trump victory — meant the ex-president “will be the Republican nominee.”

'And my message to the country is that the stakes could not be higher. Our democracy. Our personal freedoms – from the right to choose to the right to vote. Our economy – which has had the strongest recovery in the world since COVID. They are all at stake,” Biden said.

The president headlined a campaign event in northern Virginia on Tuesday instead of making a trip to the Granite State.

At a watch party at the Millyard Museum in Manchester, Phillips vowed to keep his challenge against Biden going.

Phillips launched his quixotic bid in October after months of warning fellow Democrats that the 81-year-old Biden would lose in a general election rematch against Trump.

The 54-year-old father of two from Minnesota is one of the wealthiest members of Congress and previously served as president and CEO of his family's beverage company and later of Talenti gelato.

He noted to supporters that his bid was only ten weeks old.

“And we just won 20 percent tonight and nobody knew who we were 10 weeks ago,” the Minnesota congressman said. “So I have to say, man, if we had 20 weeks, better watch out.”

Phillips said he would take his campaign to South Carolina for the Democratic primary on Feb. 3 and then to Michigan, where a primary will be held later this month.

“Joe Biden is a good man. He's a nice man. Yes, he is everyone, he is our president. But I have to tell you all, he can't win,” Phillips said. “The polls say he can't win, his approval ratings say he can't win.”

Moreover, Phillips noted, “an unknown congressman from Minnesota” could only just secure 21 percent. “So I'm here to say, are you ready to keep this baby going?” he asked the crowd to cheer.

Williamson announced in March that she would seek the presidency again after running against Biden and other Democrats in the 2020 race.

“I am not naive about the powers that be have no intention of allowing anyone into this conversation who does not align with their predetermined agenda,” she said at the time.

Late Tuesday night, Williamson's campaign manager tweeted that he was resigning, leaving the future of her campaign in flux.

Phillips, who has been in Congress since 2017, quickly edged Williamson in the Granite State polls, although Emerson's latest survey showed him trailing Biden by 45 points.

At a polling place in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, Phillips called the $1 million write-in campaign “obnoxious.”

“I think it's the hypocrisy of democracy, whether you get on the ballot, I mean, he's the president of the United States of America. What does it say to the country? What does it say to the world? If you choose – choose – not to have your name appear on the ballot in the primaries that have been doing this for 103 years,” Phillips said.

“I think it's terrible,” he added.

Democrats whom DailyMail.com interviewed at a polling station near central Manchester on Tuesday had mixed feelings about losing their historic first primary status.

“I was disappointed,” said Bill Cullity, 70, who is retired but works part-time at a liquor store. “I understand or understand, I think, his rationale based on the last time he was here. But I would, I would say yes, I'm disappointed he didn't show up.”

The president finished in fifth place in the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary. He righted his campaign by coming in second in the Nevada primary and then dominating in the South Carolina primary.

Yet Cullity wrote in Biden's name.

“I think he's done a decent job, I think he's an honorable man. “I think from now on he will bring a certain amount of calm to the country and there was no way I would vote for Trump even if the Pope was his running mate.”

Son Faris, a 44-year-old truck driver from Manchester, said he voted for Phillips because the Democrat supports Medicare-for-all.

“We need health care for everyone,” he told DailyMail.com, pointing to the state's notorious drug problem.

Faris said he is a progressive and former supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders and never voted for Biden.

'I didn't vote for him last time, I'm not going to vote for him again. I would never vote for him – give me a choice, die, [or] “If you vote for Biden, it would be a difficult decision,” he said. 'He sucks. He's not well.'