The Iowa GOP is steeling for "an absolute avalanche" of Donald Trump supporters who may show up in record-setting numbers for the early voting state's Feb. 1 caucuses.
"Will those people, on a cold night, come to the school or come to the community center to caucus?" the state Republican Party's chairman, Jeff Kaufmann, says in an interview with the
Des Moines Register.
"If the answer to that is yes, I don't think there's any doubt we're going to have a significant turnout that's going to break the records. It might even shatter the record. We are prepared for that at the party."
The Des Moines register reports the real estate billionaire has attracted big crowds of voters who've never attended caucuses before — and his campaign workers are focusing on making sure they know all about the caucus process.
Kaufmann is predicting Republicans will surpass the benchmark attendance mark for both parities of 120,000, though in the 2007 caucuses, then-Sen. Barack Obama helped propel a record turnout of 240,000 Democrats.
"We are prepared, let's put it that way, for an absolute avalanche of people," Kaufmann tells the Register.
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