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Iowa Dems Furious With DNC for Killing Virtual Caucus Plan

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“A lot of us here are tearing our hair out,” a former Iowa congressman said.

Hanna Trudo

Updated Aug. 31, 2019 4:14AM ET / Published Aug. 30, 2019 6:38PM ET 
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Five months before the first caucus meets, the different factions of the Iowa Democratic Party have come together and it’s all thanks to the Democratic National Committee. 

“All of Iowa is angry today,” Sean Bagniewski, the chair of the Polk County Democrats, told The Daily Beast. “This is one time the entire Iowa Democratic Party has been united on anything. And it’s in anger at the DNC.”

An influential Democrat in Des Moines, Bagniewski was commenting after the DNC rejected proposed delegate selection plans from the Iowa and Nevada Democratic Parties that would allow virtual caucusing, a way to expand participation in the process. 

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