Election 2020, ADVISORY

A day after the Iowa caucuses, the Iowa Democratic Party says 50 percent of results will be released at 5 p.m. Eastern after technical problems delayed the release Monday night. Democratic candidates have moved on to New Hampshire, where the first-in-the-nation primary takes place on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

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ELECTION 2020: Democratic Party officials in Iowa are planning to release a majority of the delayed caucus results by 5 p.m. EST. The party officials in Iowa told the presidential campaigns the news as chaos and confusion hung over Iowa and its first-in-the-nation presidential contest. By Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont and Alexandra Jaffe. SENT; developing.

ELECTION 2020-THE LATEST: Developments throughout the day, including of campaign events across New Hampshire and Iowa fallout. SENT; developing

ELECTION 2020-CAUCUS FUTURE: Iowa's coveted position as the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest faces its most daunting challenge following problems that kept the state Democratic Party from reporting results Monday night. By Thomas Beaumont. SENT: 770 words, photos. Developing.

ELECTION 2020-NEW HAMPSHIRE: New Hampshire rarely takes its cues from Iowa. Now the small New England state with a tendency to shock and surprise will have its say again, as the Democratic candidates leave turn their attention to the Feb. 11 primary. By Hunter Woodall and Kathleen Ronayne. SENT: 1200 words, photos. Developing.

ELECTION 2020-ANALYSIS: Democrats waited three years for this moment. And they messed it up. By Julie Pace. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos, by 6 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-APP: The little-known technology start-up under scrutiny after the meltdown at Iowa with Democratic Party caucus meltdown was founded little more than a year ago by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign. Shadow Inc. was picked in secret by state party leaders to develop the phone app used to gather and tabulate the caucus results. The seed money for Shadow Inc. came from ACRONYM, a progressive media non-profit corporation founded by Tara McGowan, a Washington, D.C., political strategist who runs several companies aimed at promoting Democratic candidates and priorities. She is married to a senior strategist for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, which records show has paid Shadow Inc. $42,500 for software. Those connections are feeding online conspiracy theories among some Democrats that something was fishy with the app that had problems in Iowa — ill feelings the Trump camp is looking to stoke. By Michael Biesecker and Brian Slodysko. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos, by 6 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-IOWA MELTDOWN: What went wrong with the Iowa Democratic Party’s high-tech plan to speed up the reporting of results of the caucuses? Pretty much everything. A little-known startup company was picked by party leaders in secret to develop the technology. Organizers across the state had little training on how to download the app and get past its security measures — let alone practice reporting the results. Error messages greeted some who were able to log in. For those who did report the results through the app, an unspecified “coding issue” led the software to report out only partial results, party officials said. Those who were unable or unwilling to use the app tried to phone in their results and overwhelmed a state party apparently unprepared to handle the crush of calls. “If I were prone to Twitter,” says University of Iowa computer science professor Douglas W. Jones, an election security expert, “I would use the hashtag #IToldYouSo.” By Alexandra Jaffe and Christina A. Cassidy. SENT: 1200 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-NEVADA: Nevada has a caucus and an app, too. How are they going to try to do better? By Michelle Price. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos, by 6 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-COALITION: While the results of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses remain unknown, AP VoteCast reveals striking demographic and attitudinal differences between the top Democratic candidates’ supporters, even within the field’s ideological lanes. By Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut. UPCOMING: 850 words, photos, by 6 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN: What’s the fallout from Biden’s apparently bad night? Does the mess in Iowa buy him time? By Bill Barrow and Steve Peoples. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos, by 6 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-Q&A: Q&A on things to know about where things stand in Iowa. By Nicholas Riccardi. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos, by 3 p.m.

VIDEO:

-AP will provide broadcast and online edits of people coming out of IDP.

-Broadcast edits of Buttigieg appearance this morning has moved.

-Broadcast and online edits of Biden event at noon in Nashua.

-International edits only on Warren event in Keens.

-Live and international edits only on Sanders event in Milford at 6:30 p.m.

-AP will provide analysis. Broadcast and online edits planned.

PHOTOS:

-Photos from Iowa have moved. Additional photos planned of Biden in Nashua, Warren in Keene, Sanders in Milford.

GRAPHICS:

A print graphic highlighting the Iowa caucus results and delegate distribution will be made available to AP Graphics customers.