NEW: The South Carolina Republican Party voted unanimously to hold their 2024 GOP presidential primary on Feb. 24, sources close to the process tell ABC News – a move that would lengthen the time candidates have to focus on campaigning.
Florida Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign stop at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on June 2, 2023. T The South Carolina Republican Party voted unanimously on Saturday to hold theirThe potential move would lengthen the time candidates have to focus on campaigning across the pivotal Palmetto State compared to the 2016 GOP election cycle.
Florida Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign stop at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on June 2, 2023. T MORE: How looming 'proxy war' in 2024 Republican primaries could define key races nationwide The proposal earned applause from at least one presidential campaign: that of Ron DeSantis, whose team is bullish on the Florida governor's chances in South Carolina.
Chris Murphy, a Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives who is involved in the DeSantis campaign's operations in the state, told ABC News that the governor's past military service and his wife's ties to the state – she graduated from the College of Charleston and her parents live in Aiken – should attract South Carolina Republican voters.
The proposed date would set South Carolina behind Nevada in the GOP nominating calendar for the first time since 2008, when South Carolina voted on Jan. 19, the same day Nevada held its caucus. In 2016, the Republican primary date was Feb. 20, which was three days ahead of Nevada's caucus on Feb. 23. In 2012, South Carolina Republicans voted in the primaries on Jan. 21, two weeks before Nevada Republicans caucused.
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