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I think that this will move us not in the direction fully of the national primary, but it will make it harder for an insurgent to sort of break through in the way they maybe did before.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of

Politics at Hillsdale College.

We talk in depth with Dr. Carrington today about Democrats changing their primary schedule

in the presidential nominating process.

Dr. Carrington, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me again. Discussing

today the new primary calendar for the Democrats when it comes to the presidential nominating

process, which is not as far away as some people might think. It's been, it's been Iowa and

New Hampshire to start this nominating cycle for a long time.

So what's changing?

For at least the Democrats, what's changing is that South Carolina is going to be the first

on February 3rd to hold their primary, and that it will be followed by Nevada and New Hampshire. So New Hampshire

will still be early, but not first on the 6th of February, followed by Georgia on the 13th and then

Michigan on the 27th, all of February. And then Iowa will see going forward as far as as far as them being pushed back down the calendar.

So a fairly significant reordering of who are going to be the first and early primary states going forward.

So how did this happen?

Who makes this decision for the party?

For the party, it starts with the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee. And they have a

particular Rules Committee that has been engaging in this process for a lot of 2022. They

reordered the rules and had new applications for applying for early status for

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