CONCORD, N.H. – Friday marks the deadline for New Hampshire to come into compliance with the Democratic National Committee’s new presidential nominating calendar.
It’s fairly clear that New Hampshire will not be complying.
The DNC overwhelmingly voted in early February to dramatically alter the highest of its presidential nominating calendar for the 2024 election cycle, bumping Iowa and New Hampshire from their longtime leadoff positions.
But months later, there isn’t any decision with New Hampshire or Iowa, and the celebration seems removed from implementing its revamped major schedule.
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An indication outdoors the state capital constructing in Concord, New Hampshire, spotlights the state’s treasured place for the previous century in holding the lead-off presidential major. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
“Granite Staters appreciate and respect the responsibility of the over 100-year tradition of the First in the Nation New Hampshire primary. They understand New Hampshire has a special place in the history of American politics and their place in it. We look forward to continuing that tradition here next year, and in the years to come,” longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley stated this summer season.
The push by the DNC to upend its major calendar — so as to higher mirror Black and Hispanic voters within the early major contests — has been vigorously opposed in New Hampshire, which for a century has held the primary major within the race for the White House.
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Buckley, a former DNC vice chair, has referred to as the nationwide celebration’s transfer “mind-boggling” and a “self-inflicted wound” that may damage the probabilities of Democratic candidates in 2024 in the important thing northeastern common election battleground state.
Democrats for years have knocked each Iowa and New Hampshire as unrepresentative of the celebration as an entire, for being largely White with few main city areas. Nevada and South Carolina, which in latest cycles have voted third and fourth on the calendar, are far more various than both Iowa or New Hampshire.

President Joe Biden speaks on the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting, Friday, February 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP )
The DNC overwhelmingly accepted a calendar proposed by President Biden to transfer South Carolina to the lead place, with a February 3, 2024, major. New Hampshire and Nevada are scheduled to maintain primaries three days later, adopted by Georgia on February 13 and Michigan two weeks later. The president and supporters of the plan have argued that it might empower minority voters, whom Democrats have lengthy relied on however have at occasions taken with no consideration.
“This committee put together a calendar proposal that reflects our values and will strengthen our party. This calendar does what is long overdue. It expands the number of voices in the early window. And it elevates diverse communities that are at core of the Democratic Party,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison stated earlier this 12 months.
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But implementing the calendar has been something however simple.
South Carolina Democrats are on board, however Palmetto State Republicans will maintain their major later in February. Nevada Democrats are recreation, however the Silver State’s GOP — after an unsuccessful authorized push to choose out of a February 6 major — is aiming to maintain a Republican presidential caucus two days later. And Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State this spring set the state’s major date for May 12 of subsequent 12 months, rebuffing the DNC.
Iowa, which was omitted of the DNC’s early voting states calendar, continues to be in search of methods to stay the lead-off contest with out violating celebration guidelines.

The Iowa Caucuses show on the State Historical Museum of Iowa, on January 15, 2020 (Fox News)
New Hampshire has an almost half-century-outdated legislation that mandates that it maintain the primary presidential major, per week forward of any comparable contest.
The DNC prolonged an earlier deadline till September 1 for New Hampshire to come into compliance or face getting booted from the early state window for the 2024 cycle.
To comply, New Hampshire wants to scrap its state legislation defending its first-in-the-nation major standing and should increase entry to early voting. But with Republicans in command of New Hampshire’s governor’s workplace and each homes of the state legislature, state Democrats have repeatedly argued that’s a non-starter.
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So what occurs subsequent?
Nothing, at the least till September 14, when the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee — which oversees the celebration’s presidential nominating calendar — subsequent meets. New Hampshire’s major standing can be on the agenda at that assembly.
If New Hampshire is ultimately dominated non-compliant, the state might lose half of its delegates to subsequent summer season’s Democratic presidential nominating conference, underneath DNC penalties handed final 12 months.
There are loads of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire who see the upending of their lead-off positions as bitter grapes from Biden, who completed a disappointing fourth within the 2020 Iowa caucuses and fifth within the New Hampshire major, earlier than a second place end in Nevada and a landslide victory in South Carolina propelled him in direction of the nomination and ultimately the White House.
Scheduling the date of the Granite State’s presidential major falls to New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan.
“If South Carolina is scheduled as the first primary, it would be at least seven days before that,” Scanlan instructed Fox News earlier this summer season.
The thought — at this second — is that the first could also be held on January 23, eight days after Iowa’s GOP presidential caucus.
With New Hampshire practically sure to transfer up the date of its contest, President Biden will seemingly keep off the poll within the Granite State to keep away from an unsanctioned major. And with Biden’s two major challengers — environmental lawyer and excessive-profile vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and finest-promoting writer and religious adviser Marianne Williamson — taking intention on the president and the DNC as they repeatedly marketing campaign in New Hampshire, hassle might be brewing for the president within the Granite State’s major.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr (middle), flanked by New Hampshire state Senate president Jeb Bradley (left) and state House Speaker Sherman Packard (proper), on the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on June 1, 2023. (N.H. Senate)
“President Biden will not file for election in the New Hampshire primary, which will still go first,” Buckley predicted earlier this 12 months. “This will set him up, we believe, for an embarrassing situation where the first primary in the country will be won by someone other than the president. This will only fuel chatter of about Democrats divisions.”
While he’s the commanding entrance-runner within the Democratic presidential nomination polls, the 80-12 months-outdated Biden has confronted loads of considerations from Democrats over his age and bodily and psychological stamina, and his approval rankings amongst all Americans have remained in damaging territory for practically two years.
But most Democrats argue that any potential setbacks in unsanctioned contests in New Hampshire or Iowa gained’t sidetrack Biden’s anticipated overwhelming renomination.
“The Democratic primary in a president’s re-election is never about any single state. It is about the opportunity to tout how that President has delivered for the American people with policies that have put working class and middle class families first,” veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona lately instructed Fox News.
Cardona, a DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee member, emphasised that “President Biden will run away with this primary and be our party’s nominee who will then go into a second term in the White House. And that is nothing to be embarrassed about.”
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