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Democrats chose South Carolina for the first 2028 presidential primary, then Nevada, prioritizing Black and Latino voters. New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia also hold early contests.
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Read at NBC News Politics →DNC made move in bid to better represent views of party’s racially diverse voter base ahead of next presidential cycle Democrats moved to keep South Carolina as the first state to vote in their party’s 2028 presidential primary process, while moving up several other states, in a bid to better represent the views of the party’s racially diverse voter base.At a meeting in Washington DC of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules and bylaws committee on Friday, South Carolina received a slim majority of votes to take the first spot, scheduled for 22 January 2028, with Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia set to follow, in that order. The selections must still be confirmed by the full DNC at a meeting set for next month. Continue reading...
Read at US news | The Guardian →South Carolina has been preliminarily tapped to hold the first Democratic presidential primary of 2028, as a key panel of party leaders picked the Palmetto State over Nevada on Friday after a contentious, racially fraught debate.Why it matters: It's a coup for Black leaders who argued the party's most loyal voters — represented by South Carolina's large Black population — deserved to have the first chance to weigh in on who should be Democrats' next presidential nominee.The vote by the Democratic National Committee's powerful Rules & Bylaws panel has to be ratified by the full DNC. Driving the news: The debate exposed divisions across race, ideology and region, pitting Black Democrats against Latino Democrats, progressives against moderates, and Democrats from the South, Southwest and Northeast against one another.Many Latino leaders pushed for Nevada to be the first state to vote, citing that state's large number of Latino and working-class voters — two other groups crucial to Democrats winning elections.The first state to vote in the primary typically plays an outsized role in determining the presidential nominee — and is lavished with attention, media coverage and cash.Zoom in: Members of the rules panel said Friday they elevated South Carolina because it's a diverse, small state where Democratic contenders can compete without having massive advertising budgets.But until Friday morning, South Carolina was neck-and-neck with Nevada.Democrats gathered privately late into the night Thursday to debate which state should lead off the primary. Sources on the rules panel told Axios it would be a close vote.In the hours before the committee gathered publicly this week, South Carolina Democrats and their allies argued that Black voters would feel betrayed if the state weren't picked to vote first. The state led off the 2024 primary season after a push by then-President Biden.The Rev. Al Sharpton, the African American civil rights leader, said publicly that "to turn around now and push South Carolina to the back of the line would be a slap in the face to the very voters who've kept this party alive."Christale Spain, chair of South Carolina's Democratic Party, told The New York Times: "If Nevada gets elevated over South Carolina, it would be because of their Latino vote. So you would then be telling Black voters that you matter less than brown voters. And I refuse to believe that our party wants to send any type of message like that."Zoom out: Former Vice President Kamala Harris could benefit from the decision to put South Carolina at the top of the calendar.Harris, who's eyeing a third presidential run, is leading the potential 2028 Democratic field among Black voters.What's next: Despite getting snubbed by the Democratic panel, New Hampshire — and perhaps Iowa — could go rogue and try to hold the party's contests.New Hampshire state law says it must hold the first primary in the country, and some Iowa Democrats have threatened to run an unapproved caucus to maintain that state's status early in the calendar..But Democrats recently put strict rules in place to punish state parties that cut in line.
Read at Axios →Top Democratic National Committee officials met this week to determine the order of the party’s 2028 primaries, and on Friday voted to keep South Carolina as the first state on the calendar. Michigan, Nevada, and New Hampshire are also slated to hold early primaries, although the full DNC must still ratify the decisions of the Rules and Bylaws Committee when it meets next month. But the process to set the primary calendar has been extremely contentious, with various factions in the party debating which states should go first and Black officials suggesting that Black voters would feel dissed if South Carolina had been moved back. This is all nonsense; much ado about little. It doesn’t really matter which state(s) vote first. The eventual Democratic nominee will have to win voters across racial, class, and geographic lines. All factions in the party will be heard. And the primary calendar likely will have no impact at all on the 2028 general election.For decades, political journalists like me have focused obsessively on the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, traditionally the first two contests in the presidential nomination process. So obviously the winners of those early races go on to win, right? Not quite. In the last six competitive Democratic presidential primaries (1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020), the winner of the Iowa caucuses eventually won the nomination four times (Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton). That’s a bit more than half the time—hardly a guarantee of victory. The New Hampshire victor is just two for six (Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004). Bill Clinton, and then Joe Biden almost three decades later, won the nomination after losing both states. Since South Carolina became one of the earliest voting states in 2008, all the winners there (Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden) have gone on to win the nomination. But that isn’t because all of their rivals dropped out after South Carolina. Rather, South Carolina showed that those three candidates had strong support among Black voters, which was then replicated throughout the South, helping them amass a huge advantage in delegates. So looking at that history, we don’t need to worry that South Carolina will alone determine the Democratic nominee. The early states aren’t likely to choose the same candidates. If they do, as 1992 and 2020 showed, later states might override those early results. Also, the Democratic Party these days emphasizes that it has a slate of several early primaries, trying to ensure the first or first two don’t overwhelm the process. So in 2020, even as Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders did very well in Iowa and New Hampshire, the results in the other two other states, Nevada and South Carolina, were closely watched too. Biden’s strong showings in the latter two helped catapult him to the nomination. This emphasis on the entire slate of early primaries also means the calendar doesn’t give any one candidate that much of an advantage. Kamala Harris will probably be strong in South Carolina, a state with a lot of center-left African Americans like her, but might lose in New Hampshire to Buttigieg, whose base is college-educated white voters. The early states are diverse enough that either different candidates will win them or one person will rightly become a huge front-runner for the nomination by winning four or five contests in places that are demographically and geographically distinct from one another. The primary calendar also doesn’t matter for the general election, despite the claims of people who should know better. David Axelrod, who was a top adviser on Obama’s presidential campaigns, wrote on X this week, “Dems would be wise to pick states to start the process that will be swing states in ’28. Candidates spend a lot of time in these early states and it lays an organizational foundation to compete in the fall. SC won’t be a swing state.” Hmm. There is no research showing that having an intense primary in a state helps a party win there in the general election. And it’s easy to disprove Axelrod’s argument. The Democrats won Iowa in November 2012 after not having a competitive primary, then lost the state in November 2016 and November 2020, after the party’s presidential candidates held dozens of events across the Hawkeye State during primary season. South Carolina has remained red, while Georgia has become purple, even though the former is a huge part of the nomination process and the latter isn’t. What if … primaries and general elections are completely different contests whose results aren’t connected to one another? So if the order that the states vote in doesn’t tell us much about who will win the primary or the general election, doesn’t it at least show which groups the party cares about most? Not really. If you are a Black political operative or Black Democratic official in South Carolina, having the first primary in your state is a coup.
Read at The New Republic →The state, along with several others still being chosen, appears set to play an important role in determining the party’s next presidential nominee.
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Democrats chose South Carolina for the first 2028 presidential primary, then Nevada, prioritizing Black and Latino voters. New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia also hold early contests.
Read at NPR Topics: News →The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to recommend that South Carolina should hold the nation's first 2028 presidential nominating contest.
Read at Politics - CBSNews.com →South Carolina is expected to be the first state in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary contest after the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules and bylaws committee voted Friday to approve it as the initial battleground. The committee’s recommendation will now go to the entire Democratic National Committee, which will consider the matter in Austin, Texas,…
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New Hampshire Democrats are defying the Democratic National Committee‘s plans for South Carolina and vowing to hold the party’s first 2028 presidential primaries in accordance with their state’s law. The DNC held a vote on Friday and anointed South Carolina as the state where the party will hold its first presidential primaries of the 2028 […]
Read at Washington Examiner →Democrats are set to make South Carolina its first 2028 primary state. The post Democrats Vote to Make South Carolina the First 2028 Primary State – And Here’s Who Will Benefit appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Read at The Gateway Pundit →Move over, Maine. A new Democratic primary has taken the crown as the country's most dysfunctional.
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