With a little over a week left in the much-awaited, GOP Iowa Caucuses, there’s little time for the candidates to appeal to the voters of the state-and make a case to be the next President of the United States.

The remaining candidates in the race-Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy, Christie, and Hutchison, have a turbulence of polling in the state, and nationally. The Iowa Caucuses are essentially, a ‘first in the nation’ polling method practiced every election year, where caucus-goers gather in precincts (schools, churches etc.) to ‘discuss and agree upon a candidate. Unlike primary voting and presidential elections, caucuses are reliant upon a crowd of voters to gather, and openly sit in arrays, according to their preferred candidate. And since Iowans are the first to have their pick in party nominations, it is said that Iowa holds the power to pre-determine presidential elections, early-on, in January of election cycles.

In the last Iowa caucuses, the Democrats caucused and waited for hours-if not days-on end for the final result. It was a huge disaster, and many candidates cited the mishandling of results and voters, as a criticism point. There was also a massive disconnect of paper trails, which took extensive hours of screening by the Democratic Party to come to a final result. It’s worth noting that Mayor Pete Butiigeg won that caucus, and did not go on to........

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