The Democratic National Committee approved their calendar for their 2028 Presidential nominating contest. The plan puts Virginia, and five other states, ahead of Super Tuesday, which will fall on March 7, 2028.
The DNC selected South Carolina to start the nominating contest on January 22, a Saturday. Then ten days later, on a Tuesday, the next primary will take place in Nevada followed by a single primary in New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia, respectively, on each Tuesday leading up to Super Tuesday. That sets February 29 as the day Virginia Democrats will vote for their nominee.
Presidential nominating contests are front-loaded. The media piggybacks on the winner of the early contests due to elementary supply and demand restrictions. Any media outlet is limited by their resources. Their audiences are gravitating one way and so they follow because they can’t dedicate the same amount of resources to every candidate. When candidates continue to finish in the back, then they get less attention on the news. The early winners get the limited resources. The fat get fatter and the electorate has to fight through the noise to find the truly best candidate, which is tough and most don’t even try. Win early and keep going, finish fifth early and drop out, that’s how it goes.
South Carolina first is being viewed negatively by the farthest leftists who support Marxists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. South Carolina’s large bloc of Black voters hasn’t warmed to Marxism like other Democrat-voting blocs. Nevada, a state Sanders won in 2020, has more people who attend Burning Man, and therefore will wear free Sanders merchandise and vote a little, too. But South Carolina has far less hippies, so progressives are upset.
Virginia as the last primary before Super Tuesday’s blowout allotment of delegates places the Old Dominion in an interesting and highly visible position. We could see Virginia as a pivotal contest. It could determine who has the lead going into Super Tuesday. Virginia also has more of a wider range of Democrats. Blue Dogs are gone, moderates are gone, and John Kennedy could never win a primary in today’s Democrat Party. Virginia’s winner will have to sew together a unique tapestry of all of Marxism’s varying degrees.
The DNC press release announcing the schedule highlighted the selections as “the most diverse open field early window in Democratic Party history.” The release then lists the following voters; Black, Latino, AANHPI, Native Americans, Non-college, Young, Union, and Veteran/Military. No mention, of course, of white voters.
The DNC claims their schedule “is open and affordable for candidates.” Virginia can’t be considered affordable for candidates. Our media markets are expensive, especially in NoVA, and the Commonwealth is not compact, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to a spot farther west than Detroit. It’s expensive to run in Virginia.
The DNC release also promises the methodology used will ensure “voters choose our 2028 nominee, not money.” Well, they need to make-up for not letting their voters select the nominee last time around.
President Joe Biden won the Virginia Democrat Primary in 2024. He got over 300,000 votes and beat two competitors. Biden won South Carolina with 96% and Nevada with 89% (second place in Nevada was None of These Candidates with 5%). Biden won all the primaries in 2024, but the powers that be, or the Council of Elders, or maybe just Barry O and Valerie J, decided to ignore the results of multiple democratically held elections. You know, to save democracy they needed to ignore it, rewrite the rules after the results, and pretend that everything is fine and normal.
The anointed Kamala Harris then lost the General Election. But she only had 107 days, hahahaha.
My only prediction this far out is that Democrats will have their nominee locked-in after the Super Tuesday results come rolling in. The front-loaded process could be trouble for Democrats. There’s a lot of time between Super Tuesday on March 7 and the DNC convention later that year in August. That five-month interregnum could create a stale candidate with no momentum heading into the Fall’s General Election.