The small state opens the race, and usually gives momentum to those who win it • A close fight between Sanders and Biden • And also: How does the Iowa special election system work?

• Who will come out first? Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden // Photo: Reuters, IP

After months of confrontation and quarrels in the Democratic Party, party candidates will face the first test on the way to facing United States President Donald Trump in 2020, and possibly even the presidency.

This Monday, polling stations will open in Iowa, and according to the latest polls - Bernie Sanders is expected to win a general election, and not Joe Biden, who is considered the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination.

Bernie Sanders in "Sixth Democratic Conflict" // Photo: Reuters

Iowa and New Hampshire, where the two primaries will be held Feb. 11, are considered a symbol of American politics, with candidates seeing them as an opportunity to stand out and present themselves as leading candidates, even though both states do not necessarily represent the American will and do not express many representatives to the conference event. Party in July. However, a win in one of the states - both of which enacted their first ballot, Iowa in a popular assembly and New Hampshire in the primaries, on the way to the presidential election - could pick up a candidate who is marginalized as a premier.

The Iowa election system, called Caucuses, is considered a relatively rare and unique election method for the United States, in which voters do not use polling stations, but convene in state halls and hold discussions where they try to convince one another or another. Each group of supporters is given half an hour of persuasion efforts. After the procedure is completed, supporters of each candidate gather in a defined area, thus counting the votes.

According to the current polls, Sanders currently leads Iowa with 23.8 percent, Biden followed with 20.2 percent, followed by Pete Bottage third with 15.8 percent, followed by Elizabeth Warren, Amy Clocher and Andrew Young.

Waiting for the winner. Doland Trump // Photo: IP

However, at the national level, Joe Biden is still considered the leading candidate with 27.2 percent support, followed by Sanders with 23.5 percent, Warren with 15 percent, Michael Bloomberg, the Jewish billionaire who will not compete in Iowa with fourth place with eight percent, followed by Buttage And Young.

The close race between Biden and Sanders represents the schism in the Democratic Party, a schism that has already emerged in the 2016 election, between Sanders and Warren's camps, who believe in very leftist policies in both economic and foreign policy, and Biden's camp, which represents a more central stream in the party, Much like the stream represented by Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election after defeating Sanders in the Democratic primaries.