The chairman of the Republican National Committee says his party isn’t looking to change its longstanding presidential nominating calendar, which continues New Hampshire’s tradition of holding the first-in-the-nation primary.

“I’ve not had any conversations with anybody who wants to change the calendar on our side,” RNC chair Michael Whatley said this week.

Unlike the rival Democratic National Committee, which upended their 2024 presidential nominating calendar, the RNC didn’t make any major changes to their longstanding tradition of Iowa’s caucuses leading off the schedule, with New Hampshire’s century-old first-in-the-nation primary as their second contest.

“We’re very comfortable with the calendar as it is. But as we move towards 2028, we’ll have those conversations,” Whatley said as he noted that no final decisions on the 2028 calendar will be made for quite some time.

It’s also doubtful that President-elect Trump, who holds immense sway over the party, will push for any changes to the GOP’s 2028 calendar that would threaten the Granite State’s cherished status. Trump’s thumping of a large field of rivals in New Hampshire’s 2016 Republican presidential primary launched the first-time candidate towards winning the GOP nomination and eventually the White House.

Trump won the 2020 primary in a landslide, as the then-incumbent president easily won renomination before losing the general election to President Biden. Earlier this year, Trump topped rival Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who later served as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, by 11 points in the New Hampshire primary, en route to capturing his third straight GOP presidential nomination.

While the RNC stuck with tradition, the DNC upended its 2024 cycle nominating calendar. In early 2023, the DNC demoted New Hampshire to the second spot in their order, along with Nevada, and put South Carolina in the leadoff position.

New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan, adhering to a nearly half-century-old law that mandates that New Hampshire hold the first presidential primary a week ahead of any similar contest, scheduled the nomination election for Jan. 23, with the Democratic presidential primary ending up being unsanctioned.

The big question moving forward is whether the DNC in 2028 will keep the 2024 calendar, revert to the previous schedule – where New Hampshire held the first primary – or if it comes up with an entirely new nominating order.

One of the candidates running to succeed DNC chair Jaime Harrison is calling on the national party committee to keep the 2024 calendar for another cycle.

James Skoufis, a state senator from New York State, wrote in a memo that the current calendar “better reflects the diversity of our party and our nation and places voters who are the backbone of our party–but with whom ties have frayed–front and center.”

He added that “the 2024 primary season did not provide a genuine opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of our new calendar.”

Thanks to a write-in campaign organized by Granite State Democrats, President Joe Biden easily won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, even though he wasn’t on the ballot and avoided campaigning in New Hampshire due to its unsanctioned status. Biden also longshot challengers Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Marianne Williamson in the South Carolina, Nevada, and Michigan primaries, which followed New Hampshire.

Skoufis is considered a longshot for the DNC chair, in a race where Minnesota state chair Ken Martin, a national party vice chair, and Wisconsin chair Ben Wikler, are considered the front-runners. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, is also bidding for chair. The DNC chair election will be held on Feb. 1.

Martin, Wikler, and O’Malley have not weighed in on the 2028 nominating calendar, which won’t be determined by the DNC for another two years.

Longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley was dismissive of Skoufis, saying that “he is not a serious candidate.”

Whatley, the RNC chair, also questioned the effectiveness of the DNC’s move to tinkler with its 2024 calendar.

“I know the Democrats did during the course of this election cycle, not sure that it really helped them all that much,” he said.