Eso time just to start us off.

Give us a sense of the anatomy of a botched a caucus, if you will.

How this all played out, Lindsay.

Good evening.

Well, it all played out at first thing Seem to be going pretty well.

People were wrapping up the caucuses at first.

Over the 1st 2 hours, it looked like things were right on schedule.

Then suddenly the precinct chairman started realizing they couldn't report the data that was coming in from the more than 1600 precinct all across the Hawkeye State.

Now there was a backup.

There was a phone bank that they could call these results in.

The problem was, they didn't man enough phones and the wait times were longer than an hour.

So coupled with the discrepancies in the app, because it would seem to be a coding problem with the app.

All of that sort of convoluted and got all mixed in together.

It's snowballed into just what was the biggest political catastrophe Iowa seen in a long time the problem here, Lindsay, is that they've had problems.

The last two caucus go rounds Last time around the Democratic caucus here with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton winning with a razor thin margin.

And just before that Rick Santorum came out came out on top because it was so close again because of reporting discrepancies, he really couldn't ride that wave of momentum into New Hampshire.

People here are confused.

They were upset.

It still remains the biggest political mystery in the Democratic world right now.

It's still unclear who, exactly one Theo Iowa caucuses we have have.

They are reporting some results, but only 62% of the state were coming on 24 hours.

Lindy, since the voting started almost.

And we still don't have a declared winner in Iowa.

And that makes a lot of people, especially the campaign's theme campaign volunteers the staffers who put so much time into this state more than a year's worth of work.

And right now they really have nothing to show for it, right, And as you just said, the kid is putting so much into Iowa.

But there's been a lot of discussion today whether the entire caucus system is obsolete and should be ended Our islands on the ground reacting to that.

Well, look, I can tell you this from when we were reporting last night over five hours, right here on ABC News Live.

We were hearing from our Democratic sources, our entire team.

People were frustrated that campaigns were upset.

Elected officials were upset.

The heads of the DNC were upset and they really blamed the local party here in Iowa.

But the chairman came out here.

He took full responsibility.

He said, This is unacceptable.

It's interesting.

We were, you know, working around Iowa today, going around and just little things, like going to lunch or grabbing coffee and people would talk to us.

We talked to some of the locals.

They say, Do you guys know anything?

They were curious as well, and I think they were upset.

And I have spoken to some Iowa party officials, people who work in Democratic politics here, and they're clearly frustrated because they love being the first in the nation.

They love the attention they get because maybe the mainstream media doesn't cover this part of the country as much as they should Yes, Iowa is not the most diverse state, so maybe it's not the best state for Democrats, but it is the middle of the country.

People here have certain values.

They have farmers here.

There's different industries here.

So it gave Iowa sort sort of this this upper hand in the political process, you know, they had this favorability scale.

They were able to come here and get attention.

And if they take away the Iowa caucus as being the first in the nation, it's gonna be really tough on the voters here.

And it will change the process because, as Alex Castellanos, one of our panellists, said yesterday, it makes candidates better because they have to come here.

Lindsay.

They have to speak, but they also have to listen.

They had to do several events.

They have to spend time here with real people, and they constantly are campaigning over a year.

It's not like you can just fly in, give a speech and fly out.

Sometimes people do that.

Donald Trump try to do that.

He ended up losing the Iowa caucus.

You actually have to be disciplined.

You have to be on message and you have to press that flesh, meet the Iowans here, get to know them and really sell yourself.

And the person who wins the Iowa caucus doesn't always win win the presidential race.

But at least the focus is here, and they hear what people really want.

The number one issue for Iowans wrapping up for the Poles, of course, was health care.

No doubt the debate is going to continue to ramp up about whether or not Iowa should continue to go.

First time Mama's in Iowa.

Thank you very much for that.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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