Counties in Pennsylvania have told Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and lawmakers that it is too late to move up the state's 2024 presidential primary date if count
ies are to successfully administer the election.
County officials say they are planning for 2023's election, less than five weeks away, and already spent many months of planning around holding 2024's primary election on April 23. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, a Republican, released a letter insisting that the House agree to the Senate's preferred date of March 19, instead of the House's counterproposal of April 2.Counties face a number of challenges if the primary date moves.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania — a presidential battleground state won by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 — is still buffeted by former President Donald Trump's baseless lies about a stolen election. Senate Republicans had backed a five-week shift, to March 19, in what they called a bid to make Pennsylvania relevant for the first time since 2008 in helping select presidential nominees. County election officials had said April 9 or April 16 would be better options.
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