Biden's Next Steal: The Dastardly Demotion of Iowa
Biden Conveniently Makes His Firewall State, South Carolina, the First Primary---Denying Iowa Its Traditional Place
It looks to me that Biden wants to ensure an early win in the 2024 primaries---it has nothing to do with diversity. (It is actually so obvious that I am almost embarrassed to point it out. It seems to me, also, that birds fly and the sky is blue). South Carolina is where Biden's "firewall" helped give him momentum when he had been down in early primaries. It is not an accident that he is choosing a state that he won.
This also, of course, suggests that he is going to run in 2024. There is no reason to do this otherwise: There is no evidence that it will improve the final nominee's prospects in the general election (unlike my proposal below, which will)---and there is absolutely no reason to think it will help Kamala or anyone else in his administration. It will help him, and only him.
The remarks about making the "early primaries look more like the Democratic party" are absurd: There is no way anyone can argue that South Carolina is the most representative state in the country regarding its racial make-up---South Carolina has a much smaller Hispanic population than the US as a whole, for example. Its Asian population is less than half that of the US as a whole.
That said, if the Republicans want to push out Trump (and given Florida's massive importance) I think it would make sense for the RNC to put Florida at the front of its primary calendar. That way, Desantis gets a boost over Trump and we are more likely to get a candidate who can carry this key state (though Trump did carry Florida in 2020).
So, this talk of trying to make the early primaries more diverse is simply a self-serving lie from Joe Biden and his cronies.
In fact, the primaries should be ordered based on the size of the state in the electoral college and how thin a margin it was won or lost by (the exact equation needs some tweaking, of course).
Even something as simple as purple, red, blue and within each of those blocks go from most electoral votes to fewest. Of course, better schemes could be devised, I am sure, but this should convey the gist of how primaries ought to be ordered.