Neva­da Dems say ‘work­ing-class’ states need to be pri­or­i­tized in 2028 pri­ma­ry sched­ule

The Neva­da Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty is implor­ing its nation­al par­ty lead­ers to focus more on “diverse, work­ing-class states” when it con­sid­ers how to “rebuild” after this year’s elec­tion. 

A Thurs­day press release from the state-lev­el par­ty in Neva­da called on nation­al par­ty lead­ers and poten­tial can­di­dates under con­sid­er­a­tion to be the next Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee Chair to “ele­vate” work­ing-class states to the front of the pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry cal­en­dar for 2028. The press release cit­ed a process that has typ­i­cal­ly start­ed with states that are “over­whelm­ing­ly col­lege-edu­cat­ed, white, or less com­pet­i­tive.” 

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“If Democ­rats want to win back work­ing class vot­ers and rebuild our broad coali­tion of vot­ers of col­or, we should ele­vate the most work­ing class and most diverse bat­tle­ground state in the nation to be the first pres­i­den­tial pref­er­ence pri­ma­ry for the 2028 cycle,” Neva­da State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty Chair Daniele Mon­roe-Moreno said.

Select­ing the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s cal­en­dar for pres­i­den­tial pri­maries is a main respon­si­bil­i­ty of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee. Neva­da has his­tor­i­cal­ly been a cau­cus state, but in 2008, the state’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty ush­ered in a new era of state-run pri­maries, which the group said in its press release led to increased vot­er turnout.

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Neva­da has his­tor­i­cal­ly been among the first few states to hold either a pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry or cau­cus dur­ing the last sev­er­al elec­tions, accord­ing to Fed­er­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion data, but it has been pre­ced­ed by states such as Iowa, New Hamp­shire and South Car­oli­na.

Last month, after it became appar­ent that Democ­rats would not come out of the elec­tion with the upper hand, Demo­c­ra­t­ic law­mak­ers, labor lead­ers, stu­dents and polit­i­cal pun­dits all came out with their own foren­sic analy­sis of what hap­pened, with many sug­gest­ing the par­ty need­ed to refo­cus on win­ning back work­ing-class vot­ers.

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“There is more to lose than there is to gain polit­i­cal­ly from pan­der­ing to a far left that is more rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Twit­ter, Twitch, and Tik­Tok than it is of the real world,” Rep. Ritchie Tor­res, D‑N.Y., said fol­low­ing the elec­tion. “The work­ing class is not buy­ing the ivory-tow­ered non­sense that the far left is sell­ing.”

Mean­while, Brent Book­er, the gen­er­al pres­i­dent of the Labor­ers’ Inter­na­tion­al Union of North Amer­i­ca, said that the par­ty has not “ful­ly embraced, and hasn’t for decades, real­ly, work­ing-class peo­ple.” 

“We have to decon­struct and recon­struct the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty if they’re going to be the par­ty of work­ing peo­ple,” Book­er added.

In response to sim­i­lar claims from pro­gres­sive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I‑Vt., argu­ing that Democ­rats have lost the work­ing class, for­mer Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee Chair Jamie Har­ri­son called the idea “straight-up BS.” 

Fox News Dig­i­tal reached out to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee for com­ment on this sto­ry but did not hear back in time for pub­li­ca­tion.