He also wants Nevada and New Hampshire, Georgia and then Michigan. to follow in the Democratic 2024 Presidential nomination schedule….
This probably NOT gonna go down like his wishes…
But?
It’s a start at mnoving the process away from it’s start with small states that have NO real commonality with the make up of the Democratic Party these days….
Indeed….
Except for once in the last few decades?
The mostly Black voters of South Carolina HAVE chosen who would be the nomiee in thweir primary vote results….
This is NOT a good look for Democratic progressives….
Democratic minority voters do NOT end up giving a majority of their primary votes to left leaners….
We’ll see how this goes….
But Biden IS the Democratic Party ‘leader’….
We’ll see what sway he has over this…..
President Biden and the Democratic National Committee are moving to radically reorder the party’s presidential process by making South Carolina the first primary state in 2024, followed in order by Nevada and New Hampshire, Georgia and then Michigan.
The plan, announced by party officials at a dinner Thursday in Washington, signals the end of Iowa’s long tenure as the Democrats’ first nominating contest.
The proposed new lineup, reported first by The Washington Post, reflects Mr. Biden’s own political trajectory: After he came in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire in 2020, he turned his campaign around in South Carolina and won the nomination on his strength in more diverse states whose elections were later in the year.
“We must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window,” Mr. Biden wrote in a letter Thursday to members of the D.N.C.’s Rules and Bylaws Committee. “Black voters in particular have been the backbone of the Democratic Party but have been pushed to the back of the early primary process. We rely on these voters in elections but have not recognized their importance in our nominating calendar. It is time to stop taking these voters for granted, and time to give them a louder and earlier voice in the process.”
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The current leadoff states are Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, in that order, chosen to represent the four major regions of the country: the Midwest, Northeast, West and South….
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Some D.N.C. members worried — and Minnesota Democrats have argued — that having a large and expensive state like Michigan host a primary early in the nominating process could lead well-funded candidates to essentially camp out there and ignore the other states on the calendar….