The chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party slammed a recent op-ed from Michael Bloomberg on Monday about the lack of diversity in early primary states, saying the Democratic candidate was desperate for press attention.

"It seems like Michael Bloomberg is having some second thoughts about his choice not to campaign in South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire & Iowa — and is doing what many candidates in that position have done who are desperate for some press attention," Chairman Ray Buckley said in a statement on Monday.

"Anyone who thinks New Hampshire isn't consequential in the general election must also believe that Al Gore served a term as president of the United States," he added.

Bloomberg argued in a CNN op-ed on Monday that New Hampshire, as well as Iowa, take candidates' focus away from more diverse states in the primary process.

Joe Biden’s campaign chairman privately met with some of Wall Street’s top donors last week in an attempt to rally them around the former vice president’s push for the Democratic nomination.

Steve Ricchetti, the campaign chairman and one of Biden’s closest advisors, gathered with about 90 financiers Wednesday at investment banking firm Evercore in New York, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. His pitch appeared to sway several of the big-money donors, as well, these people said.

Attendees included Evercore founder Roger Altman, longtime investor Blair Effron, Blackstone Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Gray, Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, Centerbridge Partners co-founder Mark Gallogly, and former U.S. ambassador to France Jane Hartley, said the people, who declined to be named since the meeting was deemed private.

Ricchetti told the donors that he believes now is the time for them and their donor networks to get behind Biden as the first contests of the 2020 primary season are set to kick off in three weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.

James Carville, the veteran political strategist known as the architect of former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, is formally endorsing Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet on Monday, calling Bennet “uniquely suited for New Hampshire.”

Carville, nicknamed the “Ragin’ Cajun” for his outspoken, mince-no-words style, will campaign with Bennet in the Granite State ahead of the Feb. 11 first-in-the-nation primary, the Bennet campaign said in releasing the endorsement exclusively to WMUR.

Carville has been praising Bennet in public comments for several months.

“This is John Kennedy recloned,” Carville said last summer. “You can’t get any better than this guy.”

WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders said in an interview that he would consider releasing a list of potential Supreme Court appointees he would name if elected president, and noted that his wife, Jane, also believes he should offer a roster of jurists in the way President Trump did during his 2016 campaign.

Mr. Sanders suggested that it was premature right now to unveil the names of his prospects for the nation’s highest court — “got to kind of win the nomination first,” he said — but he warmed to the idea in an interview with the editorial board of The New York Times.

“It’s not a bad idea,” Mr. Sanders said, noting that his wife, perhaps his most influential adviser, supported it. “It’s a reasonable idea. My wife agrees with you. Yeah. I’ll take that into consideration.”

Mr. Sanders, a progressive Vermont senator who remains a political independent, does not face the sort of ideological suspicion that many on the right harbored toward Mr. Trump when he ran, but he is viewed warily by some Democrats. And with polls in the states that begin the presidential nominating process showing him at or near the top of the field, his willingness to name his potential Supreme Court appointments at a moment the court is sharply divided could offer a measure of comfort to uneasy primary voters.

Well, you say, so what? Bloomberg can’t possibly win the nomination of this Democratic Party electorate, the one that almost nominated Sanders over Hillary Clinton (and wishes it had). The one that loves Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), celebrates Medicare-for-all and campaigns for transgender bathrooms. The one that’s woke, whatever that means.

That Democratic electorate, however, isn’t the Democratic electorate. Yes, that first group gets all the ink, but it doesn’t have as many votes. Someone who unifies more moderate, pragmatic Democratic voters will win virtually every big state beginning on Super Tuesday.

And as it happens, that’s when Mike Bloomberg’s campaign begins.

It isn’t hard to see the nomination as Bloomberg’s for the taking. Democrats believe they will lose to Trump with Sanders or Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Many harbor “reservations” about Biden. And they know that Buttigieg isn’t going to win the Masters the first time he plays the course.