All eyes on Iowa as frontrunners brace for first test in White House race

The front runners in the opening round of the race to see which candidates run for US president are just a few percentage points apart from each other. Opinion polls show that leading Democrat Hillary Clinton is supported by 47 per cent of people likely to vote in the Iowa caucuses, compared to her main rival Bernie Sanders’ 44 per cent. Donald Trump, the Republican setting the early pace, is backed by 30 per cent of his party’s supporters, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz on 24per cent and Florida Senator Marco Rubio on 15per cent, RealClearPolitics found. All the candidates spent the last day before voting begins on a constant round of speeches, meetings and rallies.

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Iowa offers only a small contingent of the delegates who will determine the nominees, but the game of expectations counts for far more than the electoral math in the state. Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio used some of their last speeches to attack Mr Trump and each other by trying to convince voters that they were the only one who could win the presidential election. Hillary Clinton came on stage in Iowa’s largest city, Des Moines, after an introduction by her husband the ex-president Bill Clinton. She launched a veiled swipe at her possible Republican opponents by telling an audience the Democrats had run a “clean” campaign.

If people come out to vote, I think you’re going to look at one of the biggest political upsets in the modern history of our country.

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