The Democratic National Committee (DNC) approved a new calendar for the 2024 presidential primaries Saturday that bumps Iowa and New Hampshire from being the first in the nation, CBS News reported.
The calendar gives South Carolina the first presidential primary election on Feb. 3, 2024, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on Feb. 6, according to CBS News. Georgia and Michigan, swing states carried by President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, also will move up the calendar, while Iowa is completely out of the early primary window.
Iowa and New Hampshire both have laws that require that they hold the first presidential nomination processes of their kind on the books, which could lead to the DNC stripping them of delegates if they defy the primary calendar, CBS reported Friday. Iowa’s and New Hampshire’s members of the DNC voted against the new primary calendar.
Democratic leaders sought to “diversify” the early primary states in the wake of the 2020 election, which had chaotic caucuses in Iowa that prompted the resignation of Troy Price as the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
South Carolina gave Biden a crucial early primary win in 2020, as his campaign reportedly struggled in other early states.
“As a farmer who lives near Wheatland, Iowa, a town of around 800 people, it is vital that small rural states like Iowa have a voice in our Presidential nominating process,” Rita Hart, chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party, told KGAN in Cedar Rapids. “Democrats cannot forget about entire groups of voters in the heart of the Midwest without doing significant damage to the party.”
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu called out the DNC for the proposed plan, citing the state’s law.
“Joe Biden and the power brokers at the @DNC in Washington think New Hampshire’s time is up, but it’s not in our DNA to take orders from Washington,” Sununu tweeted.
All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected].
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- ‘Coordinated effort’: Tucker Carlson rips corporate media for parroting Chinese ‘propaganda’ on climate change - March 22, 2023
- ‘Answer my question’: Sen. John Kennedy grills Biden Treasury Secretary on ‘unsustainable’ debt - March 22, 2023
- GOP Sen says Biden ‘warped’ iconic conservation law to attack American energy production - March 22, 2023
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
