Gee, no other Republican state committee thought to hold their primary or caucus on the day celebrating the civil rights leader because DECENCY.
Republicans Decide MLK Day Is Okay To Hold Caucus
July 11, 2023

We learn from ABC News:

Iowa Republicans voted unanimously Saturday to hold its presidential caucuses on Jan. 15, 2024, making it the earliest Hawkeye State Republicans will cast their primary votes since 2012.

Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said he “feels very secure right now” about the state’s first-in-the-nation status after conversations with Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

“I obviously checked with the RNC, with RNC legal, with Ronna herself, who certainly set Iowa up to be first in the nation again by naming me chair of that commission,” he said. “And so I feel very, very secure right now, that there will be no states [that] attempt to do that.”

You know why he feels secure no one else will get that day?

January 15 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Maybe they can make it into a Klan rally, too?

Oh. Wait.

Republished with permission from Mock Paper Scissors.

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