The Iowa Democratic Party will hold its state convention Saturday and, after a five-month-long presidential primary contest, the principal goal for the event is party unity.
More than 14-hundred Iowa Democratic Party delegates were elected at the district level and are eligible to attend the state convention. Laura Hubka of Riceville, the Democratic Party chair in Howard County, will be there, and doubts there’ll be any clashes between Sanders and Clinton delegates in Des Moines.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders will be pushing the party to call for a 15-dollar-an-hour minimum wage and hoping to create a new “progressive caucus” within the Iowa Democratic Party. Andy McGuire is the chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
Nine Iowa Democratic Party delegates will be elected Saturday to attend the party’s national convention in Philadelphia next month. On April 30th, 29 national convention delegates were elected at party conventions in Iowa’s four congressional districts. Iowa Republicans held their party’s state convention a month ago.
