Close Up: Iowa Loses Seat on DNC Panel that Sets Presidential Nominating Calendar

Democrats Are Abandoning Iowans

First, Democrats took away Iowa’s historic “first in the nation” status in the 2024 presidential primary. Now, they’re booting Iowa Democrats from the influential committee that sets the Democratic presidential nominating calendar.  National Democrats are sending a clear message: they don’t care what Iowans think and are inching closer to giving up on Iowa voters.  “There’s no clearer sign that national Democrats don’t care what Iowans have to s…

Close Up: Iowa loses seat on DNC panel that sets presidential nominating calendar

On this week's episode of KCCI Close Up, we look at what's next for Iowa after the state's lone representative on a key Democratic National Committee panel lost his seat.

Iowa loses seat on panel directing 2028 Democratic nominating calendar

Iowa DNC member Scott Brennan said he no longer serves on the Rules and Bylaws Committee overseeing the 2028 presidential nominating process. He was Iowa's sole representative on the panel.

Iowa suffers major blows as influence with national Democrats wanes

Democrats are desperately trying to lay the groundwork to recapture voting blocs in 2028 that shifted toward President Donald Trump last November. But one important nominating state, Iowa, is seemingly being left behind as the party sets its sights elsewhere. Over the last two years, Democrats have been chipping away at Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status, something it’s held since 1972. In 2023, the party dismantled Iowa’s position as the first s…

Iowa loses seat on panel directing 2028 Democratic nominating calendar; NH gains a seat

Iowa Democrats were stripped of their coveted first-in-the-nation caucuses in 2023. Now, Iowa will no longer have a seat at the table when an influential Democratic National Committee begins revisiting and recommending the order of states to lead off the…