Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison makes his case for keeping South Carolina as first 2028 primary

NBC National Political Reporter Ben Kamisar reports on the DNC rules committee's move to make South Carolina the first state to vote in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, replacing two heavily white states at the top of the calendar with states with more diverse populations.

South Carolina should be the first state to vote in Democratic primaries in 2028, according to the DNC's rules and bylaws committee Friday.

The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to recommend that South Carolina should hold the nation's first 2028 presidential nominating contest.

South Carolina has been preliminarily tapped to hold the first Democratic presidential primary of 2028, as a key panel of party leaders picked the Palmetto State over Nevada on Friday after a contentious, racially fraught debate. Why it matters: It's a coup for Black leaders who argued the party's most loyal voters — represented by South Carolina's large Black population — deserved to have the first chance to weigh in on who should be Democrats' next presidential nominee. The vote by the Democra

The state edged Nevada to be first, marking a major shift from past primary schedules

South Carolina is expected to be the first state in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary contest after the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules and bylaws committee voted Friday to approve it as the initial battleground. The committee’s recommendation will now go to the entire Democratic National Committee, which will consider the matter in Austin, Texas,…

Democrats' decision to make South Carolina the first primary state fuels debate over which wing of the party stands to benefit.

The Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee recommended keeping the state at the front of their primary calendar.

Dems took a big step Friday toward making South Carolina the first state to hold its presidential primary in the 2028 cycle, potentially handing former Vice President Kamala Harris a big early advantage should she launch a third White House bid.

After a two-day process in Washington, members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee selected South Carolina as the first state to vote in the 2028 presidential primary process during a preliminary vote on Friday. The vote is the first procedural hurdle the state needed to clear to lead off the Democratic nominating […]