New Jersey Democrats pushing for state to hold early presidential primary

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

New Jersey Democrats are asking the Democratic National Committee to consider the Garden State as an early presidential primary location.

Democratic State Committee Chair LeRoy J. Jones made the suggestion in a letter Wednesday to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.

New Jersey should be considered as one of the first presidential primary states as the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee considers modernizing its primary calendar, Jones said. Democrats have criticized Iowa for going first in the presidential primary process, particularly because of the Hawkeye State’s lack of racial diversity. Iowa, a state of 3.1 million people, is about 90 percent white.

New Jersey is among the last states to hold its presidential primaries and the results rarely have an impact on who the nominees of the respective parties will be.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/17/new-jersey-democrats-push-early-primary-00018278

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I sat in on the DNC's Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting on Saturday; they will be holding a series of public engagement forums to discuss the framework of th 2024 Primary.

https://static.politico.com/54/07/b6dec17640fd90ff919356098c6f/njdsc-letter-to-dnc-1.pdf

[BradAllison]

1. I'm all for strong Democratic states getting first bite at the apple. n/m

[dsc]

2. The only problem with NJ is that it is

in two of the most expensive (New York, Philadelphia) media markets in the nation.

[Mawspam2]

3. Not gonna happen exactly for this reason.

[LongtimeAZDem]

4. I've said for years that it should be done by lottery at the convention

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I would prefer New Jersey over New Hampshire and Iowa

Two 90+% white states do not represent the Democratic Party