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'Smidgen' of a chance Grassley will endorse before Iowa caucuses
Oct. 20, 2011 11:26 am
A day after saying he won't endorse any of the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls before the Iowa precinct caucuses, Sen. Chuck Grassley said there's a remote possibility he may change his mind.
Grassley announced Oct. 19 that just as he didn't endorse in 2008, he's decided not to endorse any candidate ahead of Iowa's Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses.
“We've got several good candidates, and I think I'm willing to let the system go,” Grassley said.
He repeated that Oct. 20 while talking to Ryan Schlader on WMT Radio 600, and went on to say he's confident “the cream will float to the top.”
However, Grassley said, “There might be a smidgen of an opportunity” for endorsing someone.
“It's so minute it's hardly worth mentioning,” Grassley said, but he mentioned it because “you don't know what the future might hold.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks during a General Aviation Rally Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 at the Rockwell Collins Flight Operations Center at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. (Brian Ray/ The Gazette)
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