A key Democratic National Committee panel is giving Georgia and New Hampshire more time to make changes that would allow them to be part of a group of five states kicking off the party’s revamped presidential primary calendar.
But top committee members blasted Granite State Democrats for the relentless opposition to the new proposed schedule, which would upend the New Hampshire’s cherished century-old position as the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state.
During a virtual meeting on Wednesday evening, members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted unanimously to give Georgia and New Hampshire until early June to come into compliance with the new proposed calendar. But in the latest chapter in this combustible Democratic Party feud, members of the panel said they were shocked by the pushback by New Hampshire Democrats, which they called “disturbing” and “irresponsible.”
“It does not help us. It doesn’t help the party … to have this divisiveness and to share it…
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