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The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s next presidential primary calendar. And South Carolina, the state that hosted the Democrats’ first-in-the-nation contest in 2024, is far from a lock to go first. That’s according to several members of the DNC’s new leadership team, including Chair Ken Martin. He said the DNC would not simply “rubber stamp” the 2024 calendar. The order of each party’s state-by-state presidential nomination process has major implications for the economies of the states involved, the candidates and ultimately the nation. The same states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — have dominated the process for decades.