(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Democratic Party has lost its seat on the powerful rule-making panel that will decide which states go first in 2028 when Democrats select their next nominee for president. The Des Moines Register was first to report the slot on the Democratic Party’s national rules committee has gone to someone from New Hampshire. That’s the state that ignored party rules and hosted the first presidential primary of 2024.

The Democratic National Committee had followed President Biden’s call for South Carolina’s Primary to go first — and for the Iowa Democratic Party Caucuses to no longer be first-in-the-nation. However, National Republicans kept the Iowa G-O-P’s Caucuses are their lead-off event and Iowa Democratic Party chair Rita Hart says there should be serious concerns about Biden’s calendar because excluding Iowa gave Donald Trump a head start in 2024.

Hart says Iowa Democrats simply can’t afford to be ignored again by their national party leaders.