The most consequential moment of the Iowa caucuses won’t be the first time that people across the state line up in support of their preferred candidate on February 3.
It will be when they do it for the second time — and it has the chance to give supporters of Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang an outsized amount of power.
A new rule implemented by the Iowa Democratic Party to streamline the caucus process has changed what is known as the realignment process, a uniquely Iowa moment where the supporters of a candidate who fails to reach a certain threshold are free agents in the middle of the caucus. CONT.
Dan Merica, CNN