Teary-eyed, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison reminded party officials he was the first Black person to chair the South Carolina Democratic Party and spoke passionately about his grandparents after the committee approved the president’s proposal.
Iowa loses its first spot in line to vote in the presidential primary to South Carolina
It was then that DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee members learned from panel co-chairs James Roosevelt and Minyon Moore that Biden wanted South Carolina – the first state he won in 2020 – to hold the first primary andBiden also proposed that New Hampshire and Nevada share a single primary date and recommended that Michigan and Georgia hold earlier contests.
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison was also left in the dark. He was not told which way the president was leaning, people with direct knowledge of the conversations said, to avoid any perceptions he would put his thumb on the scale. Harrison is from South Carolina and was once the state’s party chair. Elaine Kamarck, an at-large member of the DNC who sits on the rules committee, said in an interview that she was unaware of Biden’s letter when she arrived at the dinner with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
Iowa fought to keep its caucus in the early window after promising changes to its voting system that would speed up counting and make its process more equitable. requiring it to have the nation’s earliest primary, while Nevada was pushing hard for its union-friendly and Latino-heavy state to top the calendar.
Brazile spoke of her experience serving on the commission that recommended moving Nevada and South Carolina to the early window ahead for the 2008 presidential primary and the significance of candidates hearing from a diverse set of voters. That proposal was pushed by Mo Elleithee, a D.C. member of the panel, as a way to resolve the dispute over which state goes first.
Shaheen said the party could accomplish what it wanted without putting New Hampshire in a position of violating a long-held state law if it held its primary later.
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