{"id":547997,"date":"2021-06-01T11:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547997"},"modified":"2021-06-01T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:51:37","slug":"nevada-makes-move-to-become-first-state-in-presidential-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-makes-move-to-become-first-state-in-presidential-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Makes Move To Become First State In Presidential Primaries"},"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%2Fnevada-makes-move-to-become-first-state-in-presidential-primaries%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=547997&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vote-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers in Nevada on Monday passed a bill in an effort to displace New Hampshire and become the first state to weigh in on the 2024 presidential primary races.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire has long been the first state to hold nominating primaries, with Iowa holding its caucuses a week later (but in 2020, Iowa went first followed by New Hampshire). But one advocate of Nevada taking over the first slot said those states aren\u2019t reflective of the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Hampshire and Iowa are not really reflections of our entire country. Presidential candidates should look at Nevada as the example of what they should be doing and who they should be talking to,\u201d said Emily Persaud-Zamora, director of Silver State Voices, a Nevada voting advocacy group, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ia-state-wire-nevada-bills-election-2020-government-and-politics-f2a8771919ea6d6f66e6b4ea54a80fb5\">according<\/a> to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The bill must be approved by Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak to become law, but national political parties would also have to approve of the move to change the 2024 primary and caucus calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Sisolak has not said if he\u2019ll sign the bill.\u00a0\u201cAfter the 2020 Presidential Caucus in Nevada, Governor Sisolak was clear that while Nevada Democrats did a phenomenal job of making the caucuses as accessible as possible, the caucus process itself has fundamental challenges that create obstacles for too many Nevadans to participate and make their voices heard,\u201d his spokeswoman Meghin Delaney said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the governor \u201cbelieves Nevada is perfectly positioned as a diverse and representative state to be first in the nation\u2019s presidential nominating process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers back the move.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s time for Nevada to take its rightful place, not just first in the West but in the nation, as a diverse state, a state with diverse issues,\u201d said Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The AP said the push to become the first state \u201cfollows a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign led by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReid and other Nevada Democrats have seized on dissatisfaction in the party about the nominating process that gained steam in 2020. They\u2019re arguing to replace party-run caucuses with state-run primary elections, which are considered easier to participate in than the in-person neighborhood caucus meetings,\u201d said the wire service.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The party is expected to undergo a months-long review of its past nominating process and isn\u2019t expected to set its nominating calendar until at least next year. If the party doesn\u2019t sign off on the changes, it could force Nevada to amend its law or risk having its delegates dropped from the Democratic National Convention.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Republican Party, which has most recently kept Nevada\u2019s caucuses as its fourth contest, has not backed the change. Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald opposes the change, warning that the state acting unilaterally could leave both his party and the Nevada Democrats without national delegates in 2024 and less influence on the presidential nominating process.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Nevada on Monday passed a bill in an effort to displace New Hampshire and become the first state to weigh in on the 2024 presidential primary races.New Hampshire &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278758,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vote-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Nevada Makes Move To Become First State In Presidential Primaries","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/vote-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Nevada Makes Move To Become First State In Presidential Primaries","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547997","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}