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The conventions of Iowathe first official event on the American electoral calendar, began this Monday at 7pm local time (1pm GMT on Tuesday), with thousands of citizens coming to vote for their favorite candidate from the Republican partydespite the freezing temperatures that the state experiences.
Around 700 voting centers were created 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 how far he will win and whether any of his main rivals – Florida governor, Ron DeSantisand former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley– are able to get closer to him.
Through your social network Social TruthTrump criticized both of them this Monday: “Nikki Haley will never be able to win the general election because she doesn’t have (the support of) MAGA (the movement ‘Make America Great Again‘), and you’ll never have it! and Ron DeSanctimonious, at least, is MAGA-Lite.”he claimed.
Although proportionally Iowa has minimal decision participation (1.6%), this Monday’s caucuses are one of the most important events in the presidential race of U.Sa frontal fight between candidates.
Us Political convention All interested citizens can participate, who gather at the voting center in their corresponding district to discuss out loud and vote on a piece of paper who they want to be a party candidate.
Unlike primary elections, 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 take place on a specific day and time.
In each center there is a president who is in charge of asking if there is anyone who wants to speak on behalf of each candidate. In general, each party’s campaigns choose in advance who will speak.
After everyone has spoken, voters receive sheets of paper and write, by hand, the name of the chosen candidate.
At the end, the votes are counted, the results are read aloud and then entered electronically into a general counting system for all districts, so that within the next few hours it will be known who is the winner of the first major electoral event. race.
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Iowa has 40 delegates out of the 2,469 that are distributed across the 50 states (1.6%), which are the ones that 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 receive tonight.
The touch of color and uncertainty was provided this year by the low temperatures. Last Friday there was heavy snowfall in Midwest in U.S which left temperatures of up to -27 degrees Celsius.
Source: Elcomercio
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