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After failing to gain traction in the first-in-the nation Iowa caucuses, two candidates dropped out of the presidential race Monday night – former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on the GOP side and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on the Democratic side.

As Iowa voters caucus Monday night, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders will try to draw enough new voters into the process to defeat foes who have spent more money, devoted more time to organizing their support in the Hawkeye State and are backed by better-funded outside organizations.

Jeb Bush’s fundraising juggernaut has run out of steam, Ben Carson’s money machine has cranked down, and Chris Christie and Rand Paul have just a little more than $1 million in each of their campaign bank accounts.

Hillary Clinton is holding onto a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa as Democrats prepare for Monday’s caucuses, though an outpouring of young voters and those who say the system is rigged could enable Sanders to pull off an upset, according to a new poll.

Martin O’Malley took out a loan to keep his Democratic presidential campaign afloat late last year, and repaid it with matching funds received in January, according numbers in his campaign filings provided by an aide.

Many of his senior and junior aides also have been unpaid since he moved most of them to Iowa, according to the summary provided by his aide.

The biggest overall ad spender in Iowa is Right to Rise USA, according to ad-spending numbers from SMG Delta reported by NBC News on Wednesday. The main super PAC backing Jeb Bush accounted for more than one-fifth of ad buys in Iowa this cycle, even as the former governor of Florida continues to sit in the single digits in polling.