Five Democratic candidates are considered to have viable shots at winning or placing highly in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the first nominating contest of the 2020 presidential election.
Iowa offers only a small number of delegates, but the predominately white, rural state historically is where candidacies take off – or sometimes founder.
Since 1996, every Democrat who has won the caucuses has gone to secure the party’s nomination.
Chris Smith author of The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff, and Guests, contributing editor at New York magazine and contributor to Vanity Fair, heads to Iowa with Dan & Amy: