.DNC set to shake up presidential nominating calendar
A key Democratic National Committee panel was set to meet in open session Friday and Saturday inside a Washington, D.C., hotel to hash out the party’s 2024 nominating calendar. A vote recommending a new schedule for ratification to the full DNC is expected by the end of the weekend. The top priority in recent weeks has been replacing the Iowa caucuses as the kick-off contest with either the Nevada or New Hampshire primaries.
The state will vote first, however, if Biden has his way. In a letter sent Thursday evening to the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee, the president requested that the Palmetto State host the first primary election on Feb. 6, 2024, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada one week later. Georgia would vote fourth, on Feb. 20, and Michigan would go fifth on the 27th.
The Saturday vote by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee comes after two years of hand-wringing and haggling over the future of the party’s presidential nominating strategy. The Republican Party is keeping the Iowa caucuses first, and the New Hampshire primary second, per decades of tradition. But the Democrats have soured on that approach, particularly Iowa voting first — especially since 2020.The first knock against Iowa was the botched counting of the Democratic caucuses' results in 2020.
The Democratic Party in New Hampshire, where state law stipulates that the"first-in-the-nation primary" be held there, has already signaled it will defy national party leaders if dethroned.
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