Welcome to Tuesday, February 4th, roses and thorns...

And the winner in the Iowa caucuses is...we don't know.

The Iowa Democratic Party said they're delaying releasing the results of Monday's caucus due to "inconsistencies," not "a hack or intrusion."

"We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results. In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report," Iowa Democratic Party Communications Director Mandy McClure said in a statement.

"This is simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion. The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results," McClure continued.

Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said the delay in reporting results in Iowa is "the sloppiest train wreck in history."

"And these are the people who want to run our entire health care system?" Parscale asked.

There are 41 delegates up for grabs in the Hawkeye State. 1,991 delegates are needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

How do you feel about the 2020 Democratic contenders?

On the Radar

Graham: GOP Will Investigate Whistleblower, Bidens After Impeachment

The GOP will soon investigate the Biden family and the whistleblower who set off the impeachment proceedings, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

“The Senate Intel committee under Richard Burr has told us that we will call the whistleblower,” Graham said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Why is it important? I want to know how all this crap started.”

Graham added:

“If the whistleblower is a former employee of [or] associate of Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on [Rep. Adam] Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important."

On Monday, House managers (including Schiff) and Trump's defense team began presenting their closing arguments in the president's impeachment trial.

Do you support investigations into the whistleblower and Biden family?

Under the Radar

Women Outnumber Men in the U.S. Workforce for First Time in Nearly a Decade

After nearly a decade representing a narrow minority of the workforce, women held more than half of all full- or part-time jobs on U.S. payrolls in December 2019. Women last outnumbered men on the monthly payroll data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from June 2009 to April 2010.

This chart from USAFacts compares the number of women and men on monthly payrolls in the U.S. dating back to 1964. The smallest share of the workforce that women have represented over the last decade occurred in August 2014, when they were 49.3% of all payroll employees. In December 2019, there were 76,246,000 women on U.S. payrolls ― outnumbering men by 109,000 workers and representing 50.04% of the workforce:

Check out all the woman-in-the-workforce charts here, then tell your reps:

How do you feel about opportunities for women in the workforce?

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And, in the End...

It's Liberace Day.

PIC-END

The oft-sequined Władziu Valentino Liberace, who died on this date in 1987 after a battle with HIV, was known as Mr. Showmanship. At the height of his fame, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.

Toast some hot flavored water in his honor—it's also National Homemade Soup day,

—Josh Herman

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