Start your engines: Iowa GOP schedules presidential caucuses for Jan. 15

Next year’s Iowa Republican presidential caucuses will be held in mid-January, about three weeks earlier than the past two primary cycles, state GOP officials announced Saturday.

The first-in-the-nation caucuses will take place on Jan. 15, 2024, following a vote from Iowa’s state Republican Party central committee. Jan. 15, a Monday, is a federal holiday: Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

That’s earlier than in both 2020 and 2016, when the caucuses were held on the first Monday in February. But it’s about two weeks later than 2012 and 2008, when the caucuses...