Whither, Iowa? Dems Consider Shaking Up Primary Season

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic National Committee is meeting this week in Washington to decide whether Iowa should still have the first caucus in the party's presidential nominating contest. President Biden and others favor switching to a different state, arguing Iowa's population isn't representative of America as a whole.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Ryan from Alendale, New Jersey, and you're listening to the NPR Politics
0:07.4	podcast. Currently, I'm an Amsterdam sitting at a cafe overlooking the canal having an
0:13.0	ice-cold beer. This podcast is recorded at...
0:16.7	One-O-Nine PM Eastern Time on Friday, December 2, of 2022.
0:22.4	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be hanging out watching
0:26.1	the boats and all the people on bicycles is trolled by. Okay, here's the show. Cheers!
0:35.7	That's the first time we find a while where I feel actual fomo. Like I was shocked.
0:40.0	Very johre with that name.
0:41.0	I'm in Amsterdam living that life. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I must
0:45.1	m'challet I cover the White House. I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.
0:48.8	And I'm Barbara Sprint. I also cover politics.
0:51.7	And today, we're going to kick off the show with some sad news for Iowans. It appears
0:56.6	that it may be the end of an era for Iowa politics. The Iowa caucuses traditionally kick
1:01.6	off the presidential campaign season, but they may no longer have that distinguished position,
1:06.6	at least for Democrats. The Democratic National Committee is meeting this week to determine
1:11.2	whether a different state ought to go first, and President Biden has put his thumb on
1:15.9	the scales, calling for a big shake-up.
1:18.4	Barbara, you are at the DNC meetings right now. So walk us through what the discussion
1:23.6	is looking like and why people have turned on Iowa.
1:26.9	Yeah, well, I think it's important to say, you know, people haven't turned on Iowa
1:31.0	necessarily. But members of the committee, yes, are overwhelmingly eager to move away
1:35.9	from Iowa as the first state to hold contests during that presidential early window that
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