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The National Committee of the Republican Party adheres to the tradition.
The RNC’s full membership on Thursday voted unanimously not to make changes to its calendar of presidential nominations for 2024, keeping Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada as the four states with early voting.
The vote at the RNC’s spring training meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, endorsed the recommendations adopted by a committee at the National Party’s winter meeting in February. This panel was chaired by Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufman and included Republican Party chairmen from New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
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“I thank @GOPChairwoman and the entire RNC for reaffirming the rules that allow Iowa to hold our first meetings in the nation. The people of Iowa are taking their responsibilities seriously and are ready to start the process of being nominated for president of our nation! ”Kaufman tweeted minutes after the vote.
New Hampshire GOP chairman Steve Stepanek told Fox News that “the RNC supports the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada. We are doing it in New Hampshire and the RNC sees great value in continuing this schedule for the upcoming presidential primary. . “
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The reaffirmation of its RNC schedule came a day after the Democratic National Committee’s rival committee took an important step to shake up its long-running presidential and meeting calendar, which has been run by Iowa and New Hampshire for decades.
The DNC Rules and Regulations Committee on Wednesday voted to require the two states, as well as Nevada and South Carolina, which are holding the third and fourth competitions in the DNC schedule, to re-apply for early state status in the 2024 calendar. who are interested in moving to the beginning of the calendar can also apply.
FILE – Iowa Caucuses Exhibition in Des Moines, Iowa (Fox News)
The move by the Rules and Regulations Committee, which monitors the party’s presidential nomination calendar, would also potentially allow a fifth country to receive separate status, meaning it will be able to hold its primary presidential election before March 2024. when the other states have the right to start their own competitions.
The Iowa Caucasus has been running the Democratic and Republican nomination calendars for half a century, and New Hampshire is holding the nation’s first presidential primary election in a century.
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But the blow for years against the two states among many Democrats is that they are too white, do not have large urban areas and are not representative of the Democratic Party, which has become increasingly diverse over the past few decades. Nevada and South Carolina are much more diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire.
New Hampshire is hosting the country’s first presidential primary election in a century. A sign outside the state capital of Concord, NH marks the state’s valuable primary status. (Fox News)
Complicating matters, last year Nevada Democrats passed a bill that would transform the state presidential assembly into a primary one and aim to move the race to a leading position in the race for the White House, ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. And Iowa’s problems have complicated the failure to report on meetings in 2020, which has become a national and international history and a distraction for Iowa Democrats and the DNC.
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In addition to the four current four states with early voting, Michigan and New Jersey have indicated they will apply for secession status.
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