The Democrat National Committee recently voted to change their primary calendar for 2028. They are putting South Carolina first in an obvious effort to help Kamala Harris, who is currently leading polling and could end up being their 2028 nominee.
What are they going to do if states openly defy them?
What is the DNC going to do to punish these states? Withhold funds that they don’t even have?
CNN’s Edward Isaac-Dovere suggested Sunday that states could buck the DNC’s primary schedule and hold its elections whenever they want to, pointing to New Hampshire specifically, and remarked that “nobody” is scared of DNC Chair Ken Martin.
“And people saying, ‘Hey, the DNC is broke. They can’t do anything to help us anyway. And so maybe they’ll just go and violate it.’ It is not where the infrastructure of the party needs to be for going into 2026 and then 2028,” Dovere further noted. Nobody is scared in any way of Ken Martin as the chair.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) panel, meeting in the nation’s capital on Friday, picked South Carolina over Nevada to hold the party’s first presidential nominating contest in 2028, a move that will likely maintain a key role in the primary calendar for Black voters, who are a crucial part of the Democrats’ base.
The decision came after intense lobbying by both states, and by New Hampshire and Iowa over the past year to hold the much-coveted lead-off Democratic primary in the race for the White House.
