The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to open the 2028 presidential primary with South Carolina on January 22, followed by Nevada on February 1, then New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia.
Party chair Ken Martin said the calendar reflects the party's values and will help retake the White House, a claim untethered to any actual polling on calendar order.
New Hampshire, bound by state law to vote first regardless of what national committees decide, previously ignored this exact sequencing in 2024, prompting officials to now threaten steeper penalties for noncompliance.
Iowa's caucus law presents the same problem, leaving the tidy new schedule's actual first-in-the-nation status about as settled as it was before the vote.
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