State Republicans Move Caucus Date to February

The executive committee of the Minnesota Republican Party on Tuesday moved up the party’s caucus date to Feb. 5 from March, joining more than a dozen states that leapfrogged to the so-called “monster Tuesday.”

The move comes weeks after the…

In ‘Monster Tuesday’ Game of Leapfrog, Minnesota Stuck Behind the Pack

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There’s a national trend that some say Minnesota is conspicuously absent.

Dozens of states have recently moved up their presidential primaries to February, and some even to January, challenging the so-called “first four”: New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada and…