With 2024’s chaos clear in its memory, the Democratic National Committee will begin the process of picking the 2028 early presidential primary states later this month, according to CBS News .

And the preliminary drafts of the guidelines could be problematic for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation status.

“CBS News has learned that at a meeting later this month, the party’s influential Rules and Bylaws Committee will focus on the application process to be among the first handful of states to hold a Democratic presidential nominating contest,” Hunter Woodall reports.

According to the report, the states will be judged on the criteria of “rigorousness, efficiency, and fairness.” The latter two are somewhat innocuous, but the issue of rigorousness — “a comprehensive test of candidates with

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