DERRY, N.H. – New Hampshire held its first-in-the-nation presidential primary Tuesday, but one name missing from the ballot is President Joe Biden.

The Democratic National Committee opted for South Carolina to be the first state to vote that they recognize in the 2024 election cycle.

Dean Phillips, a congressman from Minnesota, is one of the few Democrats running an extensive campaign to challenge Biden in the primaries. He was in New Hampshire Tuesday meeting with voters as they went to the polls.

Phillips said he was disappointed by the decision to keep Biden off the New Hampshire ballot.

“The message is it would be nice if you practiced democracy instead of suppressed it,” Phillips said. “This is beautiful. I wish the whole country could participate in a day like this. The first in the nation primary, out here in the cold, in the snow, people who take hours of their day in the freezing [cold] to demonstrate what's really important here.”

Volunteers have been organizing a write-in campaign for Biden in the hopes that the president can still pull out a victory.

The DNC will not be awarding delegates to New Hampshire’s winner due to the state’s decision to defy its new primary lineup, leaving Tuesday’s results on the Democratic side essentially bearing only symbolic meaning.