The US state of New Hampshire announced on Wednesday that its nominating contest for the presidential election would take place on January 23 — defying Democratic President Joe Biden’s preferred voting order.
The announcement will have little bearing on the race for the White House, as Biden had already ruled himself out in the Granite State in anticipation of the move, and does not have any serious threat to his position as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The eyes of the world have traditionally been focused every four years on rural, overwhelmingly white Iowa and tiny New Hampshire as the kickoff states for the months-long process of selecting presidential candidates.
But the Democratic National Committee (DNC) last year approved Biden’s proposal to make South Carolina the party’s first “primary” of 2024, arguing that bumping up a more diverse state would give Black voters a greater say and make the early stages of the race more representative.
Biden’s victory in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina helped revive his flagging candidacy and propelled the former vice president to the nomination and eventually the White House.
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