Democrats voted to shake up their presidential primaries calendar in 2024 to give greater sway to African Americans in choosing the party’s White House candidate. | AFP
The committee, in a voice vote, approved the move on Friday with only the members from Iowa and New Hampshire opposing the change. The new calendar will be put to a vote of the full DNC in February 2023.
In his letter, Biden said, “You cannot be the Democratic nominee and win a general election unless you have overwhelming support from voters of color — and that includes Black, Brown and Asian American & Pacific Islander voters. “It is time to stop taking these voters for granted, and time to give them a louder and earlier vote in the process.”
“Democrats cannot forget about entire groups of voters in the heart of the Midwest without doing significant damage to the party for a generation.”