The 2024 Democratic presidential primaries may look monumentally different from previous cycles after a Democratic National Committee panel voted today to give new states the chance to hold early primaries
DNC's Rules and Bylaw Committee Discusses Presidential Nominating Rules on April 13, 2022. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
As a result of that importance, states like Iowa and New Hampshire often fight bitterly to maintain their coveted first-in-the-nation status.The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to allow states to apply to hold an early primary and set the dates for them to do so. State delegations will then give presentations to the committee later in June. The panel will propose its primary calendar in July and the full DNC will vote on it the following month.Democrats have increasingly grappled with the disconnect in giving overwhelmingly white, rural states outsized power in picking the nominee for their racially diverse, and increasingly urban, party.
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