Iowa voters of all shapes and sizes came out to the booths Monday night to vote for whom they think should be the next president of the United States. Ted Cruz won the Republican caucus and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders resulted in a virtual tie for the Democratic.

Iowa is the first stop on the presidential trail, but to most politicians is the most important.

All candidates from both parties have been begging for Iowa votes since the announcement of each of their campaigns and have been lingering and rallying in the state for quite some time before the actual caucus.

Polls have had Republican hopeful Donald Trump in the lead since entered the race, with Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton leading Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders in the democratic poll.

The Iowa caucus was the first opportunity America has had to prove its odd love for Trump. Before the caucus, CNN polls had him leading Ted Cruz at 27% and Marco Rubio at 21%.

As people began counting, Cruz passed Trump by three coming in at 28% and Trump at 25%, Rubio still in third at 22%.

Clinton led early with a 50%, Sanders trailing with a 44%. As the voting started, Clinton kept her lead with a 51%, while Sanders jumped to a 49%. Gov. Martin O’Malley quickly decided to end his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Junior Tina Selimi will just miss this presidential election by a couple days, but still follows the debates and has decided on a candidate she would vote for if she could. Selimi, like many young voters in Iowa, relate more to Sanders than any other candidate.

“I would vote for Bernie Sanders because he’s just amazing and he reminds me of Obama (which I love),” she said. “I support what he’s doing on Wall Street and stricter gun control and free college tuition.”

According to CNN, caucusgoers under the age of 40 leaned heavily toward Sanders in the early round of voting, 9 in 10 of those voters under 24. Attendees over the age of 50 showed to support Clinton more.

Sanders is the only democratic candidate without a Super PAC (political action committee responsible for pooling campaign contributions together.) He has taken a firm stand on corporate greed in America and the money in politics. Selimi agrees, and explains that is why she has picked Sanders over Clinton.

“Hilary’s donations are all from rich people while Bernie doesn’t accept them from rich people,” Selimi explains. “He accepts them from people like us.”

On the other end of the spectrum, Senior Jake Wolff supports Donald Trump.

“I support Trump because I feel strongly that we don’t need another politician for president,” he said. “But I think Rubio and Sanders will end up going head to head.”

“Let me first of all say, let God be the glory,” Cruz began his victory speech after Rubio and Trump continued to motivate their supporters after finishing in second and third place. The evangelical candidate claims that the president will not be chosen by the media.

Cruz went on to say that his turnout was the largest amount of votes ever cast for any republican primary winner, passing Mike Huckabee’s record at 40,000, with a whopping 47,000.

Huckabee quickly announced once the voting ended that he is joining O’Malley by suspending his campaign. The governor ended just ahead of Chris Christie and Rick Santorum, with 1.8% of the votes.

Cruz remained at 28% while Trump rose to 24% and Rubio to 23%, but coming to a halt with Cruz winning the caucus at 28%.

Clinton and Sanders stayed consistent, only .3% apart from each other after all of the votes counted, with Clinton winning 28 delegates and Sanders winning 21.
The next stop on the map for the presidential candidates is New Hampshire.