The nation's most-populous state has moved its primary to March 3, 2020, so it can have more influence in picking presidential nominees.
The move from a June primary in 2016 will press hopefuls to consider a West Coast perspective on issues such as immigration and the environment, empower the state's growing Latino and Asian populations and drastically increase the amount of money candidates must raise to mount a competitive campaign.
Following the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary-two predominately-white electorates that are the traditional vetters of presidential candidates-at least six of the next nine states on the 2020 calendar will take Democrats through a swath of states where black and Hispanic Democrats dominate primary elections, including Texas.
The earliest the Democratic National Committee will allow other states to vote in 2020 without incurring a loss-of-delegates penalty is March 3, four days after South Carolina's Feb. 29 primary.
California, Texas and seven other states have set March 3 contests and more-including Georgia, where black voters make up more than half the Democratic electorate-could move to that date as well, said Josh Putnam, a University of North Carolina-Wilmington lecturer who tracks the presidential nominating calendar.
March 3 states include Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-states where the Democratic primary electorate in 2016 was at least one-third black or Hispanic, according to exit polling.
"Being a Super Tuesday state, Californians will have an edge because your work will be known to people who will be in the biggest voting state," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Northern California Democrat who is planning a 2020 presidential campaign.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-upends-2020-democratic-primary-calendar-11545051601
The move from a June primary in 2016 will press hopefuls to consider a West Coast perspective on issues such as immigration and the environment, empower the state's growing Latino and Asian populations and drastically increase the amount of money candidates must raise to mount a competitive campaign.
Following the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary-two predominately-white electorates that are the traditional vetters of presidential candidates-at least six of the next nine states on the 2020 calendar will take Democrats through a swath of states where black and Hispanic Democrats dominate primary elections, including Texas.
The earliest the Democratic National Committee will allow other states to vote in 2020 without incurring a loss-of-delegates penalty is March 3, four days after South Carolina's Feb. 29 primary.
California, Texas and seven other states have set March 3 contests and more-including Georgia, where black voters make up more than half the Democratic electorate-could move to that date as well, said Josh Putnam, a University of North Carolina-Wilmington lecturer who tracks the presidential nominating calendar.
March 3 states include Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-states where the Democratic primary electorate in 2016 was at least one-third black or Hispanic, according to exit polling.
"Being a Super Tuesday state, Californians will have an edge because your work will be known to people who will be in the biggest voting state," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Northern California Democrat who is planning a 2020 presidential campaign.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-upends-2020-democratic-primary-calendar-11545051601
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