South Carolina GOP votes to move back their 2024 primary: Sources
If approved, the move would put the the first-in-the-South presidential primary state front and center in the race for more than two full weeks. The South Carolina Republican Party voted unanimously on Saturday to hold their 2024 GOP presidential primary on February 24 next year, sources close to the process told ABC News. The potential move would lengthen the time candidates have to focus on campaigning across the pivotal Palmetto State compared to the 2016 GOP election cycle. The designation, if approved by the Republican National Committee, would upend the usual cadence of the Republican nominating calendar by placing South Carolina after Nevada for the first time in cycles. It would also make South Carolina Republicans vote 18 days after Nevada's scheduled primary , putting the first-in-the-South presidential primary state front and center in the race for more than two full weeks. In 2016, South Carolina's Republican primary came three days before Nevada held its caucuses...