Democrats want South Carolina to lead 2024 primaries. New Hampshire has other plans

<p>Earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee broke with decades of tradition when they proposed South Carolina, rather than New Hampshire, as the first state to vote in the 2024 presidential primary. <br> <br> But, making those changes official typically requires approval from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-2024-democratic-presidential-primary-calendar-dnc-south-carolina-2023-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">state legislatures and governors</a>. Considering the New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman just declared the Granite state <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/magazine/democratic-national-committee-2024.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">will still vote first</a>, what happens next?<br> <br> "It's beyond messy," Arnie Arnesen, radio host for WNHN in New Hampshire, told <em>Under the Radar</em>. The Democratic presidential primary "is officially run by the secretary of state in my state. And as a result, we have a law that says we must be first, we must be a week before anybody else. So, when the DNC made this decision to reward South Carolina and make South Carolina first on February 3, and then New Hampshire and Nevada on February 6, that might have been fine for the DNC, but it doesn't work in New Hampshire. And let me also remind you that even if we wanted to change it, the Democrats have no capacity to change it because the Republicans control the executive branch and the legislative branch, and they're not going to change the law because they know they make us miserable."<br> <br> Plus, nitrogen pollution in the ponds and waterways of Cape Cod is leading to algae buildup — and brand new <a href="https://www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2023-06-21/new-state-regs-finalized-cape-cod-towns-must-reduce-nitrogen-pollution-or-homeowners-will-pay" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">regulations</a> looking to curb it. Towns that don’t comply by designing and implementing solutions could leave homeowners with big septic bills.<br> Module<br> <br> "The Cape has a bathr