President Joe Biden will become the first sitting member of the White House in history not to appear in his party's primary elections in New Hampshire early next year.

In a letter obtained by CBS News from representatives of Biden's re-election campaign, on Tuesday, representatives of the President's re-election campaign informed New Hampshire Democrats that while he would like to appear on the ballots, Mr. Biden "as a candidate for president of the Democratic Party must comply with the rules of the National Democratic Party Congress in 2024," which came into effect earlier this year.

According to the primary election calendar, originally proposed by the President himself, South Carolina will be the first state to hold primaries at which National Democratic Party Congress delegates will be awarded in Chicago next year.

New Hampshire has been pushed further down the party calendar, but the state's law requires New Hampshire to hold the first primaries in the country. The state's Democrats failed to persuade state lawmakers to repeal the Granite State statute, but they didn't try very hard because they disagreed with the National Democratic Committee's decision. Anyone running in the Democratic Party primaries in January will not receive delegates from the National Democratic Party Committee.

The deadline for presidential candidates to apply in New Hampshire is Friday, and presidential candidates from the Republican Party have gone to the State Capitol to submit their applications and pay a $1,000 registration fee. Potential rivals to Biden in the primary elections, including Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, who publicly did not rule out a primary bid after expressing his concerns about the president's age, still have time.

But Biden's team doesn't seem worried.

Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, wrote in her letter to New Hampshire Democrats, "The President hopes that his name will be placed on the ballot for the New Hampshire general election as the Democratic Party candidate after he officially secures the nomination at the National Democratic Party Congress in 2024, where he will tirelessly fight to earn all the votes in the Granite State in November next year."

Raymond Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, tweeted in response to the President's decision, "The reality is that Joe Biden will win the FITN primary in New Hampshire in January, win the re-nomination in Chicago, and will be re-elected in November next year. New Hampshire voters know and trust Joe Biden, so he leads Trump in New Hampshire by double digits."