More than a handful of Democrats will compete with each other and indirectly versus an extremely controversial President Donald Trump, riding high up on his impending acquittal by the Senate, as the U.S. election season kicks off on Monday night with the Iowa Caucuses
Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar who had been in Washington for Mr. Trump’s Senate trial dashed to Iowa for a chaotic weekend of campaigning. Together with former Vice-President Joe Biden and previous Southbend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the five candidates leading the long list of Democratic hopefuls.
While Iowa, a primarily white and demographically non-representative state, just sends out 41 delegates to the nominating convention later on this year (1,991 are needed to win), it offers crucial early momentum to the leading prospects. Because Al Gore in 2000, every Democratic candidate who has won Iowa has actually gone on to win the party’s nomination.
While Mr. Biden leads in nationwide polls, in the countdown to Monday night, approximately Iowa surveys from January 20-27 assembled by Real Clear Politics (RCP), shows Mr. Sanders in top place (238%) followed by Mr. Biden (202%), who is followed Mr. Buttigieg (158%) and Ms. Warren (146%).
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