Pennsylvania’s state Senate wants to move up the state’s 2024 primary election by five weeks to March 19.
Democrats have warned that the change would compress the primary calendar, giving courts and counties less time to handle election-related duties.
“Here we are, the fifth-most registered voters in the country not having input into who the candidates are for our parties. This bill gives Pennsylvania citizens a voice at the beginning of the process, because it always comes down to us at the end of the process,” Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, told colleagues during floor remarks.
For now, President Joe Biden faces a couple of Democratic challengers but is expected to secure his party’s nomination, while former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated theMany states want to hold presidential primaries earlier, to give residents more influence on the trajectory of presidential campaigns.
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