In response to the Iowa Democrats' Central Committee approving their caucus plan, Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann released the following statement:

"Iowa Democrats care more about appeasing their national party leaders than they do about our First-in-the-Nation Caucus. They bungled their attempts to survive the DNC 2024 calendar reshuffle, and now they are willing to throw away Iowa’s political clout and make us another flyover state in an attempt to show how woke they are. This latest charade will do nothing to make them part of the conversation of being first. It will instead jeopardize the future of the Iowa Caucuses.”