Dems Change Primary Schedule: What Does It Mean?
2 Dec 2022
The Democrats are meeting to make big changes to their 2024 primary schedule.
Biden pushes Democrats put South Carolina first, replacing Iowa, in 2024 primary schedule https://t.co/SHTII4K58U
— Axios (@axios) December 2, 2022
South Carolina and its kingmaker, James Clyburn, made Joe Biden the 2020 nominee after he lost big time in earlier states. With South Carolina going first, Biden — or even the wildly unpopular Kamala Harris — look like locks to get the nomination.
Iowa caucuses, see ya? President Biden is looking to shake up the Democratic primary schedule so voters of color have a bigger voice earlier in the process.
Out: Iowa and New Hampshire first.
In: South Carolina, then NH and Nevada, then Georgia and Michigan. pic.twitter.com/Ygg0j3HSFQ
— The Recount (@therecount) December 2, 2022
They’ve stripped away the value of retail politicking and the influence of the electorate in Iowa. It’s a rig job for the nominee the apparatus wants.
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