Dems Change Primary Schedule: What Does It Mean?
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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