The caucuses of the first official event on the American electoral calendar, started this Monday at 7:00 p.m. local time (1:00 GMT on Tuesday), with thousands of citizens coming to vote for their favorite candidate of the despite the freezing temperatures that the state is experiencing.

Some 700 voting centers were set up to receive citizens’ votes in the first litmus test for the former president. donald trump (2017-2021) and his intentions to become the candidate to face the president Joe Biden in November.

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The former president is the favorite tonight but it remains to be seen by how much margin he wins and if any of his main rivals – the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisand the former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley– are able to approach him.

Through your social network Social TruthTrump criticized the two this Monday: “Nikki Haley will never be able to win in the general election because she doesn’t have (the support of) MAGA (the movement ‘Make America Great Again‘), and you will never have it! and Ron DeSanctimonious, at least, is MAGA-Lite”he claimed.

Although proportionally Iowa has a minimum decision share (1.6%), this Monday’s caucuses are one of the most important events in the presidential race of USAa frontal fight between candidates.

In the caucus All interested citizens can participate, who meet at the voting center of their corresponding district to discuss aloud and vote on a piece of paper who they want to be the candidate of a party.

Unlike a primary election, caucuses are not organized by the state but by the parties themselves, in this case the Republican Partyand are carried out thanks to volunteers.

While primaries are similar to an election day, with citizens voting for hours, caucuses are one day and at a specific time.

In each center there is a president who is responsible for asking if there is anyone who wants to speak on behalf of each candidate. In general, each party’s campaigns previously choose who will speak.

Once everyone has spoken, voters are given sheets of paper and they write, by hand, the name of their chosen candidate.

At the end, the votes are counted, the results are read aloud and then electronically entered into a general counting system for all districts, so in the next few hours it will be known who is the winner of the first big event. of the electoral race.

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Iowa has 40 delegates of the 2,469 that are distributed among the 50 states (1.6%), which are the ones who end up choosing the candidate at the party convention, which in the case of the Republicans will take place in July.

In Iowa, candidates receive a number of delegates proportional to the percentage of votes they get tonight.

The touch of color and uncertainty has been provided this year by low temperatures. Last Friday there was heavy snowfall in the Midwest of USA that have left temperatures of up to -27 degrees Celsius.

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