Iowa offers just a tiny percentage of the delegates needed to win the nomination but plays an outsize role in culling primary fields. The past several Democrats who won the Iowa caucuses went on to clinch the party’s nomination. Biden senior adviser Symone Sanders said the campaign viewed Iowa “as the beginning, not the end,” of the primary process. The tone was noticeably more upbeat for Bernie Sanders’ campaign, which has repeatedly predicted victory and believes he’s running even stronger in New Hampshire. Trump held a rally in Iowa last week and dispatched surrogates to the state ahead of Monday’s vote.

Source: thestar February 03, 2020 10:30 UTC