The Latest Breaking News from New Hampshire

Mark Z. Barabak: A signal from Biden and boost for Kamala Harris as Democrats remake 2024 primary calendar

Perhaps you missed it, what with holiday shopping, World Cup soccer and the big political news that Donald Trump wants to run the Constitution through a shredder and make himself dictator.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 9, 2022

Korean War soldier who went missing identified, buried

The remains of a soldier from New Hampshire who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp have been laid to rest, several months after they were identified

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022

LZ Granderson: Politics will never be the same when Democrats replace Iowa caucuses with South Carolina

Every presidential election year, when the pundits start buzzing about the Democrats’ nominee for president before Black voters have weighed in, that’s a lot like decorating for Thanksgiving — just something to do until the main event.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 6, 2022

Dems move to make South Carolina, not Iowa, 1st voting state

Democrats have voted to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022

Pushback greets effort to give South Carolina first ’24 primary

New Hampshire Democrats said they won’t easily cede their state’s “first in the nation” status on the presidential primary calendar to a proposal by President Joe Biden to move South Carolina to the front of the line in 2024.

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

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

Predominantly white New Hampshire reportedly could be scheduled later with South Carolina tipped to move up to first

The Guardian - US · Dec 2, 2022

Pushback greets effort to give South Carolina first ’24 primary - Roll Call

Members of Congress from other states resisted President Biden's proposal that the first 2024 presidential primary be in South Carolina.

Roll Call · Dec 2, 2022

Jonathan Bernstein: Hold the Iowa caucuses in spring. It won’t change much

The Democratic National Committee is expected to make some big decisions in the next few days about the presidential nomination calendar. It seems likely that the party will seek to demote Iowa from its role as the first state to select a presidential nominee.

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

Biden signals Democrats to move on from Iowa presidential caucus

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden offered the strongest indication yet that Democrats will ditch Iowa as the kick-off to their presidential nominating process, saying the party should favor more diverse states and abandon time-intensive caucuses that he says freeze out working class voters.

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

A Democratic panel OKs a Biden-backed shakeup of the party's presidential calendar

Biden has proposed elevating South Carolina to the first spot, moving the swing states of Georgia and Michigan up to the early slate, and putting Iowa back in the pack.

WEKU · Dec 2, 2022