What is the importance of Monday's caucuses?
, receiving about 6,000 more votes than Donald Trump and had eight delegates to Trump's seven. Florida Senator Marco Rubio came in a close third, with 43,165 votes and seven delegates. All other Republican candidates received just one delegate or none at all.
"In 2016, Ted Cruz won the Republican caucuses in Iowa, solidifying his position as a serious candidate," Arthur Sanders, a politics professor at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, toldIn the much-smaller Democratic caucuses, the votes were almost evenly split. Hillary Clinton defeated Senator Bernie Sanders by just four state delegate equivalents—701 to 697—and received 23 delegates to his 21.
Meanwhile, Shelley noted that it might not be over for candidates who do not perform as well as they would have liked in the caucuses.
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