Late Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party finally released some results from Monday’s Iowa caucuses. Officials blamed technology problems for the delay in tabulating the vote. It was an embarrassing start to the nominating process for Democrats in the race for the White House.

For more we turn to CGTN’s Dan Williams in Des Moines, Iowa.

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To discuss all of this:

• Sery Kim is a Republican strategist and former senior adviser in the Trump administration.
• David Schultz teaches political science and election law at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota.
• Hilary Shelton is the director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau and senior vice president for advocacy and policy.
• Aaron Mate’ is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine, and the host of “Pushback with Aaron Mate’.

For more:

Breaking News: Partial results for the Iowa caucuses show Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders ahead and Joe Biden falling well behind the other top-tier candidates https://t.co/Y2M1wMMc32

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 4, 2020

The media are suddenly running around ahead of an announcement by the Iowa Democratic Party here in a few minutes. @cgtnamerica @CGTNOfficial #IowaCaucuses2020 pic.twitter.com/2DCO37yLve

— Daniel Williams (@DanWilliamsTV) February 4, 2020

The Sanders campaign’s decision to release its internal results came after hours of frustration with the Iowa Democratic Party, whose app contributed to delays in the reporting of precinct results. https://t.co/KDefUeX2lH #IowaCaucuses

— The Intercept (@theintercept) February 4, 2020

‘We had a good night last night in Iowa,’ said the Democratic presidential hopeful @JoeBiden despite the delay in results from the #IowaCaucuses due to technical problems pic.twitter.com/ujEZN0gteZ

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 4, 2020

Our AMAZING Iowa Caucus team is heading back home!

Thank you ALL for your hard work.

President @realDonaldTrump CRUSHED all incumbent turnout records in Iowa!

How do we know? Well, we can count unlike the Democrats!#IowaCaucuses pic.twitter.com/jFoOhOkkvH

— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) February 4, 2020