Iowa: January 3 likely to be caucuses
A young girl sits under an umbrella during the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” event at the Indianola Balloion Festival Grounds on September 3, 2011, in Indianola, Iowa.
Iowa's Republican Party has made a tentative agreement to hold is caucuses on Jan. 3, the Des Moines Register reported Friday.
The agreement will be formally voted on next week.
“We had a real clear consensus last night that we want Jan. 3,” Drew Ivers, a member of the Iowa GOP central committee, told the Des Moines Register. He said the agreement was reached during a phone conference Thursday night of the Iowa GOP Central Committee.
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CNN reports that a second committee member has confirmed that there is a broad consensus among the committee for Jan. 3.
The move comes before New Hampshire has set its date for a primary, and Iowa is therefore effectively staking its claim to Jan. 3, the Washington Post reports.
"New Hampshire holds its primary on a Tuesday, and state law says it must be set at least seven days before a similar contest. After Nevada set its caucuses for Jan. 14 on Thursday, Jan. 3 became the latest date that would meet both of those criteria for New Hampshire," it states.
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