Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wants his site to become an early presidential primary host — just not in 2024, as President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are pushing.

The Republican fight chief, who garnered attention for rebuffing then-President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia, told The Associated Press he'd back an early famous in 2028.

It's the first time Raffensperger, who sets Georgia's famous election dates, has endorsed the idea of Georgia as an early nominating site, though not as soon as the Democratic National Committee and the White House want.

"Georgia would be a expansive early primary state in 2028," Raffensperger told the AP.

"It has a good cross-section of entailed voters from both parties, and, as everyone seems to now spy, we run great elections," the secretary added in a dig at Democrats' assertions that he and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp have worked to itsy-bitsy ballot access.

Raffensperger's position highlights the Democrats' challenge in reordering their nominating calendar to elevate racially diverse electorates and de-emphasize Iowa and New Hampshire. Those overwhelmingly white states have opened the nominating procedure for both major parties for decades and still lead Republicans' 2024 calendar as it's now set — with national GOP officials showing little tiring„ tiresome in reconsidering their slate.

The secretary's announcement nonetheless shows Democrats aren't alone in wanting Georgia, now a premier general election battleground, to expand its burgeoning effect into presidential nominating politics.

The question is whether Democrats can find momentum with the Republicans who control the Georgia statehouse and with the nationwide GOP forces necessary to make such a change. That's decidedly harder than Atlanta's push to win the 2024 Democratic ancient, a decision that will be made entirely within the party.

Top Georgia Democrats counting Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams of Atlanta aid a presidential primary move, and the state party's ancient executive director, Scott Hogan, has taken on the role of the top unofficial lobbyist for the idea, arriving out to Republicans and the business community.

"This isn't just a political conversation. This is very much an economic conversation," said Williams, who is also the state Democratic chairwoman. "It's a aid across the board, whether Republicans or Democrats."

Audrey Haynes, a University of Georgia professor tracking the debate, mad studies showing how much more influential an average American voter becomes when they live in an early nominating space. The economic boon, she added, ranges from candidates' television advertising to a year's marvelous of tourism and consumer spending by traveling national judge and the top campaigns' permanent field staffers.

"There's just all this spending to go depressed with the attention on voters and on local elected officials," Haynes said.

Under the Democratic National Committee plan popular Saturday, the party's 2024 presidential primaries would begin Feb. 3 in South Carolina, the state that propelled Biden's campaign in 2020. That necessary would be followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on Feb. 6, Georgia on Feb. 13 and Michigan on Feb. 27.

The nationwide party has given Georgia Democrats until June to show they can comply with that calendar, though deadline could be extended.

Raffensperger noted the Republican National Committee has stationary in its 2024 calendar, with the usual opening interpret of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The GOP also plans to small convention delegates from states that move up to disrupt that ancient quartet.

"This type of move would need to be equitable, take place on the same day, and ensure that no one loses delegates," Raffensperger said, offering no indications that he'd try to persuade the RNC to reconsider.

Jordan Fuchs, Raffensperger's deputy, said calendar reshuffles must "at the start" be a "bipartisan decision," a tacit acknowledgment that Biden persons the genesis of Democrats' plan does it no favors in Georgia.

"Just because one party is pushing it doesn't mean it has bipartisan support," she said.

Kemp, meanwhile, has given no public sign that he wants a temperamental ahead of 2024. Additionally, Kemp's advisers have noted he has no official role in setting the necessary dates.

That said, Kemp is at the apex of his effect as a second-term, battleground governor who won reelection by nearly 8 percentage points; he defeated Democratic noteworthy player Stacey Abrams for a second time after dominating a Republican necessary challenger who had Trump's backing. So he would be key in any eventual shift.

A top Kemp adviser, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record around an issue the governor isn't actively pursuing and called anonymity, said Kemp and his inner circle do not reveal the long-term benefits Georgia would accrue as an early state.

Yet the considerations for the GOP aren't as straightforward as for Democrats.

Multiple fresh presidential cycles — Barack Obama's nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton's in 2016 and Biden's in 2020 — have highlighted the noteworthy Black voters in the South already have in Democratic politics. Biden's path was especially emphatic, as he stormed to the nomination in a business of weeks after finishing fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, effectively highlighting their shortcomings as Democratic bellwethers. Those two conditions, though, still reflect the Republican Party's overwhelmingly white base, giving the GOP small incentive to depose them.

National Democrats, meanwhile, have made definite they want their early nominating window to be stacked with November battlegrounds; that would give their eventual nominee early exposure in key Electoral College messes. Georgia Republicans, conversely, are still adjusting to their state's tossup situation after dominating at all levels of government for decades afore 2020, when Georgia opted narrowly for Biden and two Democratic senators.

"I certainly gain it's a two-party state," said Chip Lake, a former GOP campaign operative. "But the conversations among Democrats on what all this operating at the presidential level is just more advanced than it is for Republicans colorful now," Lake said.

And, he added, Kemp's previous statements have effectively cut off any bipartisan electioneer on primaries.

"No one," Lake said, "wants to get out in precedent of the governor."