

Pete Buttigieg is leading the Iowa caucuses with Bernie Sanders close behind, based on 62 percent of precincts reporting. Buttigieg has 27 percent of the total delegate count while Sanders has 25 percent. However, Sanders currently boasts the majority of total votes counted thus far.
The results have been on hold for nearly 24 hours due to a series of technical issues stemming from an app that was used by precinct officials to record the caucus data. The app, Shadow, was intended to add more transparency to the notoriously chaotic caucusing process. But as soon as reports of errors rolled in, Shadow’s glitches, security blind spots, and general lack of user-friendliness turned the night into an unmitigated disaster, leaving the Democratic candidates departing Iowa unsure as to how they fared in the first big vote of the 2020 election season.