Statewide Iowa — (RI) — The head of the Democratic National Committee says 2020 should be the last time that caucuses are part of the presidential nominating process.
Tom Perez made the comments during an interview with the Associated Press on Monday — but he did not directly mention Iowa’s Caucuses, the lead-off contest in presidential campaigns for decades. Iowa Democratic Party chairman Mark Smith suggests that while Joe Biden lost Iowa’s Caucuses in 2008 and 2020 — Biden will be an ally of Iowa’s Caucuses if he wins the presidency.
(as said) “He was on a ticket that carried this state twice with President Obama,” Smith says.
Smith has indicated there will be no vote this week during the Democratic National Convention on the 2024 presidential campaign schedule. Iowa Republican chairman Jeff Kaufmann says there’s no internal agitation about the first-in-the-nation status of the Iowa GOP’s Caucuses and he doesn’t expect the issue to be raised during next week’s Republican National Convention either.
(as said) “There will be no errant rules or resolutions or brainstorms on the part of any state that will try or attempt to supplant Iowa,” Kaufmann says. “..President Trump has stated absolutely there’s no wiggle room, that if he’s re-elected Iowa will be first in 2024.”
In late July, Smith indicated the party’s review of what went wrong with the smart phone app for reporting February’s Iowa Caucus results will be released “in the coming weeks,” but offered no other time frame.
