{"id":1951090,"date":"2023-06-19T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-gop-sets-feb-24-date-for-first-in-the-south-presidential-primary\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:45:05","slug":"south-carolina-gop-sets-feb-24-date-for-first-in-the-south-presidential-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-gop-sets-feb-24-date-for-first-in-the-south-presidential-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina GOP schedules Feb. 24 for initial Southern primary."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-carolina-gop-sets-feb-24-date-for-first-in-the-south-presidential-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0619\/49902baf-24c6-4d1e-b9ed-5713d5072a19\/audio.mp3?length=2942541&#038;duration=245\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>South Carolina Republicans Set Date for 2024 Presidential Primary<\/h2>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C.\u2014South Carolina Republicans have set Feb. 24 as the date of their 2024 presidential primary, a move that, if approved, the party says will give GOP White House hopefuls more time to campaign in the first-in-the-South state.<\/p>\n<p>The state GOP executive committee voted unanimously to approve the measure on Saturday, party executive director Hope Walker told The Associated Press. The selection still needs approval from the Republican National Committee to be official, and Walker said that a formal submission will be sent ahead of an October deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-gop-sets-feb-24-date-for-first-in-the-south-presidential-primary\/\" title=\"South Carolina GOP schedules Feb. 24 for initial Southern primary.\">major parties make moves<\/a> to solidify their voting calendars ahead of the 2024 nominating process.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC voted last year to maintain its voting order, with Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada going ahead of other states. By setting South Carolina\u2019s vote on Feb. 24, Walker told the AP that candidates would have more time after Nevada votes on Feb. 6 to focus their attention on the state, where support is pivotal for Republicans competing for their party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for South Carolina Republicans and for our candidates and the voters in South Carolina to get to interact one on one, not just in large masses,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Struggle with Primary Schedule<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats continue to struggle with President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to overhaul his party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-gop-sets-date-for-first-southern-2024-presidential-primary\/\" title=\"Southern 2024 Presidential Primary Date Set by State GOP\">2024 presidential primary schedule<\/a>. On Friday, a Democratic National Committee rules panel gave New Hampshire until Sept. 1 to comply with new rules that leaders there fiercely oppose. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-officials-to-decide-whether-to-build-trash-can-prototypes-at-up-to-20k-apiece\/\" title=\"San Francisco Officials To Decide Whether To Build Trash Can Prototypes At Up To k Apiece\">committee opted<\/a> not to immediately offer such an extension to another battleground state, Georgia, which hasn\u2019t set its date for next year\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is Biden\u2019s plan to strip Iowa\u2019s caucus of its traditional post leading off primary voting and replace it with South Carolina, which would vote on Feb. 3, 2024. New Hampshire has long held the n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, S.C.\u2014South Carolina Republicans have scheduled their 2024 presidential primary for Feb. 24. The party claims this will allow GOP candidates more campaign time in the first-in-the-South state. The measure was unanimously approved by the state GOP executive committee on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1951091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3963,20604,6203,23378,4909,18303,3960,6260],"class_list":["post-1951090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-carolina","tag-feb","tag-gop","tag-initial","tag-primary","tag-schedules","tag-south","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}