The Republican National Committee is keeping the Iowa Republican Party’s Caucuses in the lead-off position for the G-O-P’s 2028 presidential campaign. Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann spoke to the party’s national leaders before the decision was made late last week.
The Caucuses are a party-run event and Kaufmann says that means the work to set up the 2028 Iowa Republican Party Caucuses will begin as soon as this November’s election is over.
Kaufmann led the group that recommended the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential campaign calendar starts with the Iowa Caucuses, followed by New Hampshire’s Primary, Caucuses in Nevada and South Carolina’s Primary. Any state that tries to jump ahead of those states would be sactioned and have fewer delegates at the 2028 Republican National Convention. Kaufmann says if party leaders hadn’t put Iowa in the opening spot, he would be planning to host the Iowa Caucuses first anyway even if it meant the loss of convention delegates.
The Iowa Democratic Party’s Caucuses lost the first-in-the-nation position in 2024 and the Democratic National Committee has picked six other states to lead the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential campaign.
