President Joe Biden announced a plan last month to reconfigure the order of Democratic state primary elections, with New Hampshire and Iowa losing their first-in-line status to South Carolina and Michigan, which have more diverse electorates.
Democratic leaders in New Jersey had hoped the Garden State would be moved up in the schedule, but that isn’t proposed. Charles Stile, political columnist for The Record and NorthJersey.com, explains why New Jersey likely lost out and what that means for Gov. Phil Murphy’s rumored White House ambitions.
