A Very Long Night In Iowa

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The kickoff to the 2020 voting was undercut Monday night by major delays in the reporting of the Iowa caucus results. We traveled to Johnston, Iowa, to tell the story of the day — from the perspective of one caucus in a middle school gym. Guests: Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times and Reid J. Epstein, a political reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: A new system of reporting caucus results led to confusion and few solid numbers — forcing the Iowa Democratic Party to delay the release of results until a winner could be verified later Tuesday.Here’s where you can see live results as they become available.

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0:36.0	Today, the kickoff to the 2020 campaign was undercut on Monday night by major delays in
0:47.2	the reporting of the results from the Iowa caucuses.
0:52.4	The story of the day.
0:58.8	It's Tuesday, February 4th.
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