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Iowa is known for being the starting point of presidential campaigns every four years with its caucuses. However, the Democrats changed the process in Iowa after the chaos in the dissemination of results in 2020.
The problem forced the national party to reschedule its electoral calendar this year with a view to emphasizing states with greater diversity. This led to the state's Democrats sending their votes by mail, the results of which were announced this Tuesday.
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Joe Biden will also follow the minute-by-minute results of Super Tuesday from the White House, his spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, reported.
"He will be kept informed and will be aware of what happens tonight as we watch the elections taking place across the country," the spokesperson said this Tuesday at a press conference at the White House.
Biden's campaign does not plan any electoral speech tonight, unlike the former president and favorite for the Republican nomination Donald Trump (2017-2021), who will appear at his mansion in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
Super Tuesday is the big day of the presidential primaries in the United States because the largest number of delegates are distributed in a single day, more than 35%, and it could practically resolve the candidacies for Biden and Trump.
The former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, is the only one left in the Republican primaries to dispute the candidacy with Trump, although so far she has lost in all the states that have held elections except in the District of Columbia.
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The states that are holding Republican and Democratic primaries today are California and Texas, the largest, as well as Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
The first results could be known from 07:00 in the evening because the first polling stations in Vermont and Virginia close. The last to close will be the polling stations in Alaska five hours later.