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Democrats May Change Primary Order So New Hampshire Is No Longer First

April 1, 2021

Will New Hampshire be the first primary in the country for the Democrats in 2024?

Maybe not.

Leaders of the Democratic Party are considering mixing up the order of the states that vote in the primary. They’re interested in putting Nevada and South Carolina first, two states that are more diverse racially than Iowa and New Hampshire, as Politico reports.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate to have those two states to set the tone. It’s really a false premise that if you do well in Iowa and New Hampshire you’re going to do well across the country. That was proven wrong with Joe Biden,” former Senate  Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) told Politico. “There’s no diversity in Iowa. There’s certainly no diversity in New Hampshire.”