{"id":867244,"date":"2021-10-11T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=867244"},"modified":"2021-10-11T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:59:05","slug":"democrats-move-toward-dumping-iowa-as-first-presidential-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-move-toward-dumping-iowa-as-first-presidential-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Move Toward Dumping Iowa As First Presidential Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-move-toward-dumping-iowa-as-first-presidential-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=867244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/caucus.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first electoral test on the road to each party\u2019s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>But some Democrats think it\u2019s time to rejigger the order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe caucuses\u2019 reputation has been damaged by high barriers to participation, a dearth of racial diversity, the rightward drift in the state\u2019s electorate and a leftward drift in the Democratic participants,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/iowa-caucuses-democrats\/2021\/10\/08\/1402aafa-2770-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe state party\u2019s inability to count the results in 2020 only deepened dismay in the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Democratic Party\u2019s caucuses ran well past midnight with no precincts reporting the results, allegedly due to a faulty app. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party were handed victory on a silver platter during their own caucus as the nation watched Democrats implode under the weight of gross incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>In December, an audit commissioned by the Iowa Democratic Party placed blame for the caucus debacle at the feet of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC decided mere weeks before the caucuses to demand a conversion tool for the app that the state party planned to use for reporting results so the DNC could view the raw data in real-time to ensure calculations were correct, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/12\/iowa-caucus-dnc-report-444649\">Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the conversion tool, which the state party was not involved in developing, contained coding errors and malfunctioned on the night of the caucus, leading the DNC to demand the state party stop reporting their own caucus results, even though the state party\u2019s own app was later found to have been working as intended, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/audit-finds-dnc-interjection-prompted-iowa-caucus-chaos-report-says\">reported<\/a>. Voters in Iowa and across the nation were then left wondering when official caucus results would begin to roll in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DNC\u2019s interjection was the catalyst for the resulting chaos in the boiler room and in the IDP\u2019s attempts to manually collect and confirm caucus results by hand,\u201d read the audit, according to Politico. \u201cIf the DNC had not interjected itself into the results reporting process based on its erroneous data conversion, caucus night could conceivably have proceeded according to the IDP\u2019s initial plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez has openly expressed opposition to Iowa keeping its first-in-the-nation status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be honest with ourselves, and Iowa is not representative of America,\u201d Perez said in an interview last week, the Post reported. \u201cWe need a primary process that is reflective of today\u2019s demographics in the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even President Joe Biden \u2014 who won the party\u2019s nomination in 2020 even though he finished fourth in Iowa \u2014 has noted the lack of diversity in the state, which is more than 90% white and just 3.7% black, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/states\/iowa-population\">according<\/a> to World Population Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not suited to normal people, people that actually have daily lives,\u201d said South Carolina State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of that state\u2019s Democratic Party and a longtime Biden ally, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think the caucus process as it exists in Iowa is not suitable in 21st-century America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first electoral test on the road to each party\u2019s presidential nomination.But some Democrats think it\u2019s time to rejigger the order.\u201cThe caucuses\u2019 reputation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}