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The Democratic Party of the United States is working so that Iowa is no longer the first state in the country to vote during the primary process to elect a candidate for the presidency every four years, thus ending a long tradition. President Joe Biden suggested that South Carolina go first and then Snowfall.
President Joe Biden believes that Iowa is a state with too high a proportion of the white population and that therefore does not represent the diversity of the US so one of his plans is to go first for the Democratic votes to South Carolina, a state that is home to the largest African-American population.
Within Biden’s plan to reorganize the electoral calendar is raise Georgia and Michigan which have a more diverse electorate. Nevada would be the second state and which has a large Hispanic presence among its population.
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President Joe Biden sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) where he made the suggestions and explaining the reasons that led him to make this change leaving Iowa out of being the first place it had occupied by 50 years.
“For decades, black voters in particular have been the backbone of the Democratic Party, but they have been pushed aside at the end of the early primary process,” Joe Biden wrote in a letter dated Dec. 1.
“We depend on these voters in elections, but we have not recognized their importance in our nominations calendar. It is time to stop taking these voters for granted, and it is time to give them a louder and earlier voice in the process”, detailed the president.
For their part, until now, the Republicans will continue with the same scheme, leaving Iowa as the first state to vote in the Republican primaries, taking advantage of the fact that in recent years this state has leaned more towards conservative positions.
Iowa and New Hampshire have for decades been the first states to vote in the bipartisan primary process, what which gives them unparalleled media projection, and causes candidates to spend enormous amounts of money and time campaigning in those states.
Scott Brennan, a member of the Iowa Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, confirmed the proposed changes after a private meeting. Although he made it clear that, “these are only recommendations and we will continue to fight for Iowa’s place in the nomination process”.
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New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley told USA Today that they are not in the DNC to take away from being first in the primary voting.
“The DNC did not give New Hampshire the first primary in the nation and it is not theirs to take it away. This news is obviously disappointing, but we will hold our primary first. We have survived past attempts for decades and we will survive this one,” Buckley noted. can significantly boost a candidate’s chances, though it bears mentioning that Biden didn’t win any of those states in 2020 and Donald Trump only in New Hampshire at 1200.
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