Claim: U.S. President Joe Biden is the only presidential candidate to win a primary election as a write-in candidate. The Biden campaign held fast to its South Carolina strategy: The New Hampshire Democratic primary would proceed, but without Biden's name on the ballot. (X [formerly Twitter] user @stridinstrider)While Biden did indeed win the primary just using write-ins, he's not the only presidential candidate to do so. The rest of the 1968 presidential campaign was no less bizarre, for the record. But in summary, since Johnson was never officially included on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot, his victory came from write-in votes, meaning that Biden is not the first presidential candidate to win a primary only using write-in votes.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2024 17:06 UTC