the reported precinct results of the caucus nights were previously (last time in 2016) used to compute the expected number of pledged national delegates according to the state delegate equivalents for each presidential candidate, meaning that the campaigns after the precinct caucuses still needed to hold onto their computed expected pledged national delegates as their support were only locked to the candidate at the final step of the selection process (i.e at the state convention in june). this has changed in the 2020 caucuses, where the computed final number of pledged national delegates will be locked to the candidates already when the result of the precinct caucuses are known.