President Biden will not participate in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Democratic Primary.

In a letter to the Granite State’s liberal party leaders, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the 46th president’s campaign manager, said that “while the president wishes to participate in the primary, he is obligated to comply” with the wishes of the national party, which has decided to allow South Carolina to hold the first nominating contest.

“The president looks forward to having his name on New Hampshire’s general election ballot as the nominee of the Democratic Party after officially securing the nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where he will tirelessly campaign to earn every single vote in the Granite State next November,” Rodriguez wrote to NHDP Chairman Ray Buckley.

Biden’s decision comes as no surprise to party insiders, who knew for months that a state law requiring New Hampshire to hold the first primaries would stand in the way of the Democratic National Committee’s proposed schedule change.

The DNC warned New Hampshire that if they held their primary first they might face sanctions, and potentially see their delegates rejected at the party’s national convention. New Hampshire Democrats, who are not in control of the state government and cannot change the law, have maintained that their hands are tied and they must hold the nation’s first Democratic primary.

According to Buckley, even if his name isn’t officially listed on the ballot, a write-in campaign could be enough to get the president over the finish line.

“The reality is that Joe Biden will win the New Hampshire First-in-the-Nation Primary in January, win re-nomination in Chicago and will be re-elected next November. New Hampshire voters know and trust Joe Biden, that’s why he is leading Trump in New Hampshire by double digits,” Buckley said in a statement.

According to the Secretary of State’s office, without Biden — and after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared he would run as an independent — the Democratic ticket in New Hampshire features author Marianne Williamson and nine other comparatively unknown candidates. Williamson, who ran for the party nod in 2020, filed her nomination paperwork on October 12.

“The truth of the matter is that even though the DNC can take delegates from me, it cannot take from New Hampshire the significance of this primary,” Williamson said, according to WMUR.

The Republican ticket could feature 20 names. The filing deadline for major party candidates running in the New Hampshire primary is October 27.

Herald wire services contributed.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Wednesday that police would step up patrols after a man was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Jewish family’s home and threatening them.

“The vile act of hate that took place this morning has no place in our City,” Bass said in a strongly worded condemnation. “In the wake of the terror and violence inflicted over the previous weeks, this is one of the worst fears of Jewish families across our country — hatred spilling across the threshold, destroying the sense of safety and sanctuary in a home.”

A woman called 911 before dawn to report a home invasion, saying she was hiding with her four children as a stranger threatened to kill them, FOX 11 reported. The news station showed footage of the suspect in custody, wearing only his underwear, repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

“We were very scared because of the situation in Israel now, and we are Israeli,” the woman’s husband, who said he confronted the intruder, told KCAL News.

No one was physically hurt in the incident, Los Angeles police said. The LAPD said on Wednesday afternoon it did not have any additional information to report on the suspect.

Bass called on officials “to take action to ensure the person responsible for this heinous act is held fully accountable,” in her statement.

“We remain steadfast in support of the Jewish people — the people of Los Angeles will not cower to hate,” she said. “We will respond to it.”

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has left Jewish and Muslim communities increasingly distraught and on edge in the United States. Earlier this month, a Palestinian American boy in Illinois was stabbed to death by his landlord, who targeted him because he was Muslim, officials said.

NBC’s Lester Holt and Kristen Welker are set to moderate the third Republican primary debate alongside morning talk show host Hugh Hewitt, NBC announced on Wednesday.

The three will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on Nov. 8, as the remaining GOP presidential hopefuls — those who can qualify — push to break away from the pack in the polls.

So far, five candidates have hit the Republican National Committee’s increasingly stringent requirements to make it onto the debate stage. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have all qualified, as has the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump — who is set to again skip the debate in favor of his own rally in nearby Hialeah, Fla.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, has met the polling requirements but still needs to hit the 70,000-donor mark. And Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) needs both the donors and to garner 4 percent in one national poll.

Holt, the anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” co-moderated the first Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2020 cycle, alongside fellow NBC and MSNBC reporters Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart. He also served as the moderator for the first general election debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

NBC’s new “Meet the Press” host, Welker, will join Holt in Miami in November. Welker previously won praise for her role as a debate moderator, after deftly navigating the 2020 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Trump.

“Think we can all agree the winner is Kristen Welker,” “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon said at the time, calling the performance a “knockout.” Welker “did a bang-up job on the largest stage of any political journalist’s career,” Playbook wrote at the time.

Hewitt is the host of the nationally syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show,” and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. The conservative radio host previously worked in the Reagan administration.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey continues to dodge responsibility for the beleaguered MBTA nearly a year after she took office and promised to restore accountability and transparency.

The T is still a dangerous and unreliable mess even after Healey hired a public relations savvy general manager and replaced much of the board of directors.

Healey blamed the Republican Baker administration for the latest embarrassment – the narrow rail problems on the new Green Line extension. She talks a tough game but hasn’t produced with results.

“What’s important is that it was not disclosed, and it was really not addressed,” she said of the Green Line fiasco. “That is something we’ve been really clear about. Under the prior administration, senior management at the T, for whatever poor judgment made the decision not to disclose identified failures, and then made the poor decision not to address those failures prior to the opening of the Green Line extension.”

The Union Square branch of the new Green Line needs 50% of its track replaced while the new Medford branch, just opened in December, needs repairs on 80% of the tracks.

Two senior management officials who worked on the extension were reportedly canned by Healey.

In a new problem, the T had to bring in shuttle buses on the C branch of the Green Line on Wednesday because of electrical problems on the line. This is in addition to other delays on Green Line that have left riders miserable and frustrated.

The Democratic governor defended her general performance on the T, noting she brought in a new GM and safety chief who she claims have sought to be transparent.

But nearly a year into her tenure, the T – including all the lines and branches – is no safer or reliable than under the Baker administration or other administrations. The T has tried PR moves like starting a new podcast featuring GM Phillip Eng, but the first episode was pulled for unknown reasons before finally getting to see the light of day.

Starting a happy talk podcast with a softball interview with Eng does not mean the T is more accessible. When new problems crop up – like several near misses between Red Line trains and T workers – Healey calls them “unacceptable” but what is she doing to prevent them?

“I will say this, that every effort has been made to make sure that with this administration, we have a team in place that understands its responsibility, and takes that responsibility seriously,” Healey said.

Those are fine words, but riders want results. And so far they’re not getting them.