Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in the polls even as he has eschewed the typical retail politics to earn the trust of Iowa voters. Iowa Democrats will meet for a caucus on Monday, but in a first, voters can mail in their ballots and the party won’t announce their results until Super Tuesday in March. The change is because the Democratic National Committee has stripped Iowa of its first-in-the-nation status, giving South Carolina the US’s first primary. Whether or not the caucuses will return to their first position in 2028 for Democrats remains unclear.

Guardian US reporter Sam Levine moderated the panel, which included Sabine Martin, the Daily Iowan executive editor; Barbara Trish, a professor of political science at Grinnell; Rekha Basu, a former columnist at the Des Moines Register; and Sara Mitchell, a political science professor at the University of Iowa.

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