{"id":159914,"date":"2026-02-28T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=159914"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:04:24","slug":"scoop-s-carolina-dems-deploy-biden-as-they-seek-early-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=159914","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Scoop: S. Carolina Dems deploy Biden as they seek early primary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/22\/south-carolina-democrats-biden-2028-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>: &#8220;South Carolina Democrats are enlisting former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden<\/a>&nbsp;to try to save the state&#8217;s place as the first contest in the party&#8217;s next presidential primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The state&#8217;s party chair has invited the senior Democrats who will determine the 2028 primary calendar to a reception with Biden this Friday in Columbia, S.C., according to an email obtained by Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>The order in which states vote in a primary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/08\/21\/democrats-first-primary-states-2028-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be key<\/a>&nbsp;in determining the eventual nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Biden&#8217;s presence could help or hurt South Carolina&#8217;s case: Many Democrats still have warm feelings for him, while others blame Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 victory on Biden&#8217;s decision to run again, aged 81.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Driving the news:\u00a0<\/strong>Christale Spain, chair of South Carolina&#8217;s Democratic Party, has been inviting members of the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s Rules and Bylaws Committee to the Biden reception as part of the lobbying effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;South Carolina Democrats are enlisting former&nbsp;President Biden&nbsp;to try to save the state&#8217;s place as the first contest in the party&#8217;s next presidential primary. The state&#8217;s party chair has invited the senior Democrats who will determine the 2028 primary calendar to a reception with Biden this Friday in Columbia, S.C., according to an email obtained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159915,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159914\/revisions\/159915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}