Iowa Republicans announce 2024 presidential caucuses date
Iowa Republicans announce their 2024 first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses date. Iowa Republicans voted unanimously Saturday to hold its presidential caucuses on Jan. 15, 2024, making it the earliest Hawkeye State Republicans will cast their primary votes since 2012. Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said he “feels very secure right now” about the state’s first-in-the-nation status after conversations with Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. “I obviously checked with the RNC, with RNC legal, with Ronna herself, who certainly set Iowa up to be first in the nation again by naming me chair of that commission,” he said. “And so I feel very, very secure right now, that there will be no states [that] attempt to do that.” The announce ment comes after months of Republican candidates campaigning heavily in Iowa, a strategy experts tell ABC News is more important than ever. “Ultimately it’s the candidates that have decided this,” Kaufmann told reporters. “When they star...