2024 Primary: South Carolina goes first, but Nevada moves up

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -Nevada’s bid to go first within the 2024 presidential main calendar has falen quick, however the state’s democrats are nonetheless celebrating.

The vote by the Democratic Nationwide Conference’s Guidelines and By-Legal guidelines Committee got here someday after the president made his advice identified and follows his ideas on the problem. South Carolina will head the first calendar.

For years the calendar has remained pretty static. The Iowa Caucus first, adopted by a New Hampshire main. However there have lengthy been issues that neither state displays the demographics of the get together or the nation.

Senator Harry Reid used that argument to push Nevada’s caucus as much as an early slot in 2008 and with the state’s resolution to carry main as a substitute of a caucus, Nevada democrats have been utilizing it once more this 12 months to push for our state to go first. That didn’t occur.

Longtime Nevada political observer Fred Lokken says that was all the time a protracted shot

“We don’t have Harry Reid within the dialog now and I feel that’s our huge drawback. We don’t have anybody that has that longevity with the nationwide get together to exercize that degree of affect. Different areas do and consequently we’ve talked it to demise, however I don’t suppose we’ll change it.”

However Nevada didn’t come away empty handed. Beneath the schedule accepted by the committee South Carolina democrats will vote Saturday February 3, 2024 adopted three days later by primaries in each New Hampshire and Nevada.

State Democratic get together Chair Judith Whitmer issued a press release saying partly “We’re glad to see Nevada transfer ahead within the main calendar and excited to see our state play a pivotal position in 2024 and into the longer term.”

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