DNC Votes To Make South Carolina First Primary State

The Associated Press reports:

Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate.

The Democratic National Committee’s rule-making arm made the move to strip Iowa from the position it has held for more than four decades after technical meltdowns sparked chaos and marred results of the state’s 2020 caucus.

The change also comes after a long push by some of the party’s top leaders to start choosing a president in states that are less white, especially given the importance of Black voters as Democrats’ most loyal electoral base.

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BREAKING: Democrats voted to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Biden to better reflect the party’s diverse electorate. https://t.co/3gKEcLOpPQ

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 2, 2022

A tearful and emotional Harrison notes that SC is a state where Black people did not always have a vote, but will now be a first-in-the-nation primary state for Dems. "South Carolina's a state where 40 percent of enslaved people came through the port of Charleston." #scpol

— Caitlin Byrd (@MaryCaitlinByrd) December 2, 2022