The spotlights are on the Democrats' wide-open race in Iowa, but President Trump's reelection campaign is working to try to persuade Republican voters to turn out at their caucus sites, too, in an effort to avoid delegate issues from 2016.
“That has never been a consideration for us out here in Iowa. We were going to hold this caucus. Period," said Jeff Kaufmann, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party. While"it would have been so much easier and so much less expensive for us to just go ahead and cancel this,” he said, the state couldn't risk giving the Republican National Committee a reason to reconsider the calendar.
In contrast, “If it is a blizzard that night, I'm guessing Bernie supporters are going to trudge through to get there," he said, referring to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, even as he maintained that Trump's impeachment trial in Washington has dramatically energized Republican voters in the state. The comment underscores lingering anger about 2016, when Trump rival Ted Cruz's sophisticated campaign operation locked in delegates who supported him instead of Trump — prompting fears of a contested convention.
It was “embarrassing and classless," said Kaufmann, a strong Trump supporter, of what happened in 2016. This time, “they're not taking any chances."
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