Since 1971, Iowa’s voters have had the first say in who might be president, giving Iowans what some call an outsize influence on the presidential election.
Some in the state, with its 2.4 million voting-age adults, have confessed what they claim to be their inner thoughts on the cadre of presidential candidates at NBC News’ Election Confessions.
“I cannot vote for any of these!” one wrote. “I wish he would have got into the race earlier,” another wrote about now-departed candidate Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana.
More than 7,000 people from across the U.S. have shared around 60,000 confessions about the candidates, the country and its condition. Here are some of the more notable confessions from the first-in-the-nation voting state:
Confessions for Bernie Sanders
Confessions for Tom Steyer
Confessions for Tulsi Gabbard
Confessions for Donald Trump
Confessions for the country
Confessions for Joe Biden
Confessions for Pete Buttigieg
Confessions for Amy Klobuchar
Confessions for Andrew Yang
