Democrats Agree To Switch Up Order Of Nomination Calendar For 2024

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On Saturday, the Committee of Democrats National voted to change the sequence of the presidential nominating contests in 2024, demoting New Hampshire and Iowa, two traditional early-voting states. However, many issues remain concerning the logistics of this change.

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For decades, New Hampshire and Iowa have been the first of the two states that are holding nominating contests, but the new timetable shifts Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, and South Carolina up the list. Vice President Joe Biden has stated that the newly nominated system more accurately represents the country and its Democratic Party. Some affected states are pushing back against the party’s early nomination timetable, which was authorized on Saturday during the DNC’s winter meeting held in Philadelphia.

The new schedule calls for the first primary election to be held in South Carolina on February 3rd, followed by elections in Nevada and New Hampshire on the 6th of Feb, Georgia on the 13th of February, and lastly Michigan on the 27th of February. After March 5th, any state will be able to organize a nominating contest.

This shift is in response to long-standing complaints from the party leaders, their previous calendar, featuring Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire in early voting, gave undue weight to the two states that were overwhelmingly White and did not represent any diversity to the democrats party. While New Hampshire has conducted the first primary in the process since 1920, Iowa has gone first in the nomination process since 1972. DNC Chair Jaime Harrison stated on Saturday that the calendar says to be reflecting the best of who we are as a nation and deliver quite a powerful emblem throughout the country,

There was resounding approval for the calendar. While the Democrats National Committee (DNC) establishes the parameters for the party’s nomination process, it is the individual states that choose when their contests will take place, and neither New Hampshire nor Georgia is likely to be able of meeting the deadlines set by the DNC.