After a year of presidential campaigning, primary debates and town halls, Iowa voters finally arrived at caucus sites to cast actual votes in the 2020 race.
All day long, news networks reported from throughout the state, albeit with little to say other than the countdown to the actual event, being held in hundreds of precincts across the state.
CNN was up with an entrance poll result at 7:38 p.m. ET, just as voters around Iowa were filing into hundreds of sites across the state. Earlier, the network reported from a number of satellite caucuses, or special votes for those who are out of state or out of the country. But correspondents and anchors cautioned that at such an early point, not much should be read into it.
A lot of attention of media was focused on the Wells Fargo Arena in downtown Des Moines, and for good reason. The site is connected to a convention space set aside as a filing center and stand up space.
Bernie Sanders, who has been gaining ground in recent polls, left Washington on Monday afternoon to head to Des Moines for the night. His caucus night party is being held in a convenient location: At a Holiday Inn next to the airport.