Biden tells Democrats to revise primary calendar to boost Black voters’ voices

Voters in Las Vegas on during the Democratic primary on 14 June 2022. Photograph: John Locher/AP

Democrats are poised to shake up the way in which they nominate presidential candidates, after Joe Biden said the primary process should better represent the party’s non-white voters.

Biden has reportedly told Democrats that Iowa, the state that has led off the Democratic voting calendar since 1976, should be moved down the calendar, with South Carolina instead going first.