Mail-in ballots are replacing realignment and complicated math from previous caucuses. Iowa Democrats will hold their party-organizing caucus Monday and later express their choice for president via a mail-in process.
Seven candidates, including former President Donald Trump, are seeking the GOP nomination to run against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall.
Iowans will gather in schools, churches and community halls to cast their vote for the presidential nomination and discuss party platforms on Jan. 15. Here’s what you need to know about what Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians are planning for that day.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s campaign announced she has accepted the invitation to CNN’s GOP presidential debate in Des Moines on Jan. 10.
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Calling it “not an easy situation to handle” and suggesting “we’re not all going to agree,” Iowa Democratic Party state chairwoman Rita Hart addressed the state party’s recent condemnation of a pro-Palestine statement issued by college Democrats at the University of Iowa.
The Iowa Democratic Party will in 2024 for the first time conduct presidential candidate preferences via mail.
“The students that issued the statement have every right to their opinion,” Board of Regents President Michael Richards said. “I continue to strongly disagree with what they said and stand by that. However, I should not have used insulting language towards the students.”
Dressed in his signature gym shorts and a sweatshirt, Democratic Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman advocated for party unity and made the case for backing President Joe Biden in 2024 at an iowa Democratic Party fundraiser in Altoona on Saturday.
A day after Iowa Democratic Party leadership condemned the University of Iowa student Democrats for an “antisemitic” social media post, calling on student organization leaders to resign, the chair of the state party’s Arab American caucus accused his party leadership of misquoting the students and called for an apology.
The University Democrats of Iowa statement expressed support for Palestine while using the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’ which has a complex and sometimes antisemitic history.
The window to register for the mail-in absentee process began Wednesday, party officials announced. Presidential preference cards will be mailed starting Jan. 12. Democrats have until 5 p.m. on Feb. 19 to request a card.
In a new poll from Iowa State University and Civiqs, 55 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants chose Trump as their first choice to be the party’s nominee for president next year.
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Iowa Democrats will wait until Super Tuesday in early March to release the results of its planned mail-in caucus presidential preference contest.
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