The Republican race for the 2024 presidential nomination began with a surprisingly large field but rapidly winnowed down. Voters flocked to the Iowa caucuses – the first contest in the process – on Monday.
In a US election, Republican and Democrats hold contests in each state to decide who their nominee will be in the presidential election in November. The winner in each state gets delegates who vote at the party conventions in the summer to choose their nominee. The state elections are usually called primaries with a simple vote, but in some states the election follows a more complex, meeting-based format known as a caucus.
The Iowa caucuses were held at 7pm CT on Monday. This year the state’s Republican party were updating the results in realtime, and the result came so quickly, many people had not gathered to caucus by the time it was called.
