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Former Republican President Donald Trump left no doubt about Iowa’s future as he campaigned for votes ahead of his 2016 victory.
“You’re going to keep your place in history. You’re going to be that first state,” he told Des Moines rallygoers that August. Efforts to reorient the presidential nominating calendar? “Not gonna happen if I win.”
But now, a president who has made no such promises occupies the White House, and calls for scrapping Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses have reached a new fervor.
One year after Iowa’s 2020 Democratic caucuses ended in calamity, Democratic President Joe Biden has assumed his role as the head of the party and installed former South Carolina state party chairman Jaime Harrison as leader of the Democratic National Committee. Both will have substantial power over conversations about Iowa’s future, but neither has given any public indication of how he might wield it.