The Democrat National Committee recently voted to change their primary calendar for 2028. They are putting South Carolina first in an obvious effort to help Kamala Harris, who is currently leading polling and could end up being their 2028 nominee.
The problem with this is that some states don’t want to follow the new calendar and may even end up defying the party because no one is afraid of DNC chair Ken Martin, according to CNN reporter Edward Isaac-Dovere.
What is the DNC going to do to punish these states? Withhold funds that they don’t even have?
FOX News reports:
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.
The 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.
This is the calendar that the party is supposed to follow.
BREAKING: We just announced the DNC’s proposed 2028 Democratic presidential primary early window states. pic.twitter.com/IFyE81NLai
— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 24, 2026
What are they going to do if states openly defy them?
What can they even do about it? Nothing, really.
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