Reports placed some blame for the Iowa caucus chaos on prank calls that were organized on sites such as Reddit and 4chan, but some readers inferred that those calls were the cause of it all.
A tweet claimed that Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden were the only two Democratic Party presidential candidates that gave money to Shadow, Inc., which developed an app to tally votes in the 2020 Iowa caucus.
After Iowa’s messy primary caucus, attention turned to upcoming caucuses in 2020 — markedly fewer in number than 2016.
As the first Democratic primary event spiraled into chaos and coin flips, social media users blamed campaigns and post-2016 reforms for the bizarre series of events.
