Republicans blasted the Democratic National Committee on Saturday for breaking a decadeslong tradition by removing the Iowa caucus from the beginning of the primary season.
Sen. Chuck Grassley claimed the DNC no longer cared about voices in rural America after its latest shake up, which occurred during the party's winter convention in Philadelphia."[Today the] DNC officially pulled the rug out [from] Iowa Democrats by revoking its first in the nation status," Grassley tweeted."The Iowa caucuses were a decades long tradition of bipartisanship. It’s sad Dems don’t value the voice of rural America.
— Chuck Grassley February 4, 2023 The party approved multiple changes to the Democratic primaries on Saturday, including restructuring the order of primaries. Iowa is normally the first contest in the country, sneaking in front of New Hampshire and its state law mandating it hold the nation's first primary, by holding a caucus instead. South Carolina will now hold the honor for Democrats.
And the DNC faces problems in Georgia too, where the secretary of state, who is the top election official, is a Republican. Brad Raffensperger said he has no intention of changing his state's calendar for Democrats unless Republicans move theirs as well, something they have not signaled they plan to do.
"The Democratic Party looks like America, and so does this proposal,” said DNC Chair Jamie Harrison. “This calendar does what is long overdue. It expands the number of voices in the early window, and it elevates diverse communities that are at the core of the Democratic Party."
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