And for those candidates who call Texas or California home – and there are several – the calendar offers a clear advantage. It’s propelled its presidential primary from the end of the 2016 primary calendar to near the top of the 2020 calendar, ensuring that the nation’s most populous and diverse state will have a much bigger say in choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential primary. “There actually could be a lot of peril for some of the home state candidates,” Elleithee said. And most famously Jerry Brown was defeated by Bill Clinton in the 1992 California primary. Buckley spotlighted numerous times in presidential primary history where a candidate who concentrated on a later primary at the expense of the early voting states came up short.

Source: Fox News December 27, 2018 17:17 UTC