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State Democratic leaders optimistic NH primary will have a friend at DNC in new chair Jaime Harrison
Status of 2024 primary expected to again be subject of scrutiny, debate in coming years Share Updated: 9:07 PM EST Jan 14, 2021 SOURCE: Meg Kinnard
State Democratic leaders optimistic NH primary will have a friend at DNC in new chair Jaime Harrison
Status of 2024 primary expected to again be subject of scrutiny, debate in coming years Share Updated: 9:07 PM EST Jan 14, 2021 Democrats have long anticipated that former South Carolina party chair Jaime Harrison would be tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to take over the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. Biden made the pick official Thursday evening, and the DNC is fully expected to ratify the choice during its meeting late next week. Download the FREE WMUR appThe question immediately emerges among Granite State political activists and obs
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President-Elect Joe Biden has selected South Carolinian, Jaime Harrison, to head the Democratic National Committee, a sign that the party s future is in what party operatives call the New South and with the emerging majority-minority of the party rank and file.
Harrison, a 44-year-old, ran against South Carolina Republican Sen Lindsey Graham in 2020. Even though the charismatic Harrison lost that race, he then broke fundraising records, collecting a stunning $57 million in the final quarter of his campaign, which was way more than the previous record set by Texas Democrat Beto O Rourke in his 2018 campaign against GOP Sen Ted Cruz. He ran for the top national job in 2017 and lost to Tom Perez, who is now leaving the chairman job. Perez gave Harrison a senior role in the party and Harrison then became a national Democratic figure.
WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Senate candidate Jaime Harrison of South Carolina to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee and a host of his
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