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The co-chairs of the Democratic Celebration’s rule-making arm are recommending that New Hampshire and Georgia be given further time to take steps towards altering their presidential main dates.

Final month, the Guidelines and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic Nationwide Committee accepted a proposed calendar that will make South Carolina the primary state to carry a main, adopted by Nevada and New Hampshire on the identical day a couple of days later, after which Georgia and Michigan earlier than Tremendous Tuesday.

Beneath the proposal, every of the 5 states had till January 5 to take steps towards altering their main dates or they might surrender the flexibility to carry an accepted early contest. New Hampshire and Georgia had been the one two states that weren’t in a position to meet the deadline.

In a memo to the committee obtained by CNN, co-chairs Jim Roosevelt and Minyon Moore wrote that “we anticipated each the New Hampshire and Georgia efforts to be difficult however properly well worth the effort if we will get them completed. We stay dedicated to doing all we will to see our plan by means of.”

Roosevelt and Moore wrote that they’re planning a committee assembly on the extensions earlier than the DNC meets in early February, when the complete physique will vote on the proposed calendar.

“You will need to stress that we’re dedicated to seeing out the calendar that this committee accepted final month,” Roosevelt and Moore wrote.

The flexibility to implement main calendar modifications differs from state to state.

South Carolina, Nevada and Michigan can simply maintain their primaries on the assigned dates. In South Carolina, the celebration chair units the first date; in Nevada, the proposed date is similar because the date at present set below state legislation; and in Michigan, Democrats have full management of state authorities and will be capable to set a brand new date.

New Hampshire and Georgia are extra difficult.

New Hampshire’s conventional place because the first-in-the-nation main is protected by state legislation, and Granite State Democrats don’t have the ability to set the date.

In a letter to the DNC, Ray Buckley, the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Celebration, wrote that the necessities had been “unrealistic and unattainable.”

“The New Hampshire Democratic Celebration can’t dictate to the Republican governor and state legislative leaders what to do, and since it doesn’t have the ability to alter the first date unilaterally,” Buckley wrote Thursday.

Georgia’s main date is about by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and his workplace has stated it is going to neither maintain two separate primaries nor maintain the first at a time that might price one celebration delegates. Whereas the proposed Democratic guidelines permit the state’s main to be held on February 13, a Republican main held that day would run afoul of GOP guidelines.