States may defy DNC primary calendar as 'nobody is scared' of Ken Martin, CNN reporter says

CNN's Edward Isaac-Dovere suggested Sunday that states could buck the DNC's primary schedule and hold its elections whenever they want to, pointing to New Hampshire specifically, and said that "nobody" is scared of DNC Chair Ken Martin."There is the possibility that a state could choose to not follow the DNC here and hold its primary when they want to," Dovere said as CNN host Manu Raju added that New Hampshire wanted to do this."And people saying, 'Hey, the DNC is broke.

They can't do anything to help us anyway. Nobody is scared in any way of Ken Martin as the chair. And so maybe they'll just go and violate it.'

It is not where the infrastructure of the party needs to be for going into 2026 and then 2028," Dovere added.The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) panel, meeting in the nation's capital on Friday, picked South Carolina over Nevada to hold the party's first presidential nominating contest in 2028, a move that will likely maintain a key role in the primary calendar for Black voters, who are a crucial part of the Democrats' base.KAMALA HARRIS IS THE 'FAIRLY OBVIOUS' 2028 PRESIDENTIAL FRONTRUNNER, DEMOCRATIC INSIDERS SAYThe decision came after intense lobbying by both states, and by New Hampshire and Iowa over the past year to hold the much-coveted lead-off Democratic primary in the race for the White House.

The battle between South Carolina and Nevada was seen as a struggle between rewarding Black voters and outreach to Latino voters, with whom President Donald Trump and Republicans made major gains in the 2024 election, handing Democrats major setbacks.The New Hampshire Democratic Party pointed Fox News Digital to a statement they put out on Friday, in which New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley said that the national party didn't learn anything from 2024."Today’s vote shows that many party insiders have learned nothing from 2024.

New Hampshire has a proven track record of testing our candidates with a rigorous, fair, and efficient process, yet