Hi, everyone. Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna,

and this is Smarter News. And I'm really excited to see you today, which is a big day when we look at

the news cycle in general, because before when we were talking about the 2024 election,

we really didn't have anything. We just had

prognostication. We had forecasting. We had polling. Now we actually have results. And so we're

going to take a little time to focus on what happened in the Iowa caucuses last night. It is Tuesday.

Our regular scoop day is on Monday. It's about 20 degrees here in Texas. It was below freezing in Iowa, by the way, last night.

It didn't seem to affect turnout very much at all. And as I was preparing for this broadcast,

I was hearing this strange sort of whipping noise outside of my office here. And I couldn't

figure out what is that noise. It's going to get really distracting. It's loud. it's a straight. It's a very specific sound. And what I realize, so apropos,

it was the whipping of the American flag outside our house because of the windshield in Texas.

So I don't know if that's symbolic, if that's giving us the background, sort of motivation

and color that we need

for this conversation. But with the whipping American flag in the background, we're going to talk

a little bit about U.S. politics. Why does Iowa matter? Iowa matters because it's the first

contest in an election season. It is a very specific contest, which we're going to talk a little bit about

what makes the caucus different than a primary, albeit not much when you take a step back and look

at the broader story. But one of the reasons why Iowa matters is that we start sifting through

candidates. You see certain candidates rise. You see other candidates fall. And so last night,

late last night, in fact,

we got this information from one of the candidates that's really absorbed a lot of attention

in this race. And let me go ahead and play this for you. This is a campaign founded on

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