The chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa will seek another term. Jeff Kaufmann (COUGH-man) of Wilton stepped into the role of party leader in July of 2014 when the party’s fundraising had dried up and a major U.S. senate race was just heating up. Kaufmann helped turn party fortunes around and he’s pledging to fight “complacency” within the party after significant victories in 2014 and 2016.

 

Kaufmann’s promising an “aggressive” tour of the state in 2017 to meet with “new” Republicans.

 

Donald Trump won 93 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Thirty-two of those counties had voted for Barack Obama twice. Dubuque County hadn’t voted for a Republican since 1956. Iowa’s top Republicans — including Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, Governor Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Reynolds — wrote Kaufmann a letter on Friday, asking him to stay on as the party’s chairman. No one else has emerged to challenge Kaufmann, so it’s likely he’ll be re-elected January 28th when the Iowa G-O-P’s state central committee meets.