Breaking: DNC Approves Sweeping Overhaul of Presidential Primary Process

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Saturday to overhaul the party’s primary process, ditching Iowa and New Hampshire as first stops.

Citing the need to better reflect the growing diversity of the Democratic Party, the committee says the presidential primary circuit will now begin in South Carolina, followed by New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan.

“This is a significant effort to make the presidential primary nominating process more reflective of the diversity of this country, and to have issues that will determine the outcome of the November election part of the early process," Representative Debbie Dingell (D., Mich.) told the New York Times.

The shift, which President Joe Biden favored, has caused a rift amongst New Hampshire Democrats, who took pride in their state as an early stop for presidential candidates.

"They could say June, they could say next week, they could say in five years, but it's not going to matter," the former Democratic governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, noted in a letter to President Biden about opposition to the calendar change.

"It's like asking New York to move the Statue of Liberty from New York to Florida. I mean, that's not going to happen. And it's not going to happen that we're going to change state law."

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