After wrapping up a three-day trip to New Hampshire on Monday, Gov. Bill Richardson will spend the next couple of days in New York before heading back to the Granite State and then to Los Angeles.
At a campaign stop Monday in Hooksett, N.H., Richardson said he’ll campaign in New Hampshire even if the state disregards the wishes of the Democratic Party and moves up the date of its primary, according to the Boston Globe.
But, acknowledging that he has a way to go in the polls, Richardson asked that the state not move its primary up too much.
“I will be here no matter what, but please don’t schedule it for July, because I need some time to compete,” the Globe reported him as saying.
The protective New Hampshire and Iowa, which historically have held the earliest primary contests in January of presidential election years, may move up their contests to late 2007 because many larger states plan to move their contests into January and February of next year.
Richardson plans to attend private fundraising events in New York City today and Wednesday. He’ll be back in New Hampshire on Thursday to speak to a firefighters’ convention. He then heads to Los Angeles, where he plans to attend private fundraisers and appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday and give a speech to a union group on Saturday.
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After wrapping up a three-day trip to