“The Republican Party of Iowa says it has gotten positive signals from the Republican National Committee that it can hold its traditional straw poll without violating the party’s new rules governing the primary season calendar, meaning one of the more colorful events of the nomination season is likely to continue this August,” Bloomberg reports.
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