The first results from Monday night’s Iowa Democratic caucus were released Tuesday afternoon, after almost 24 hours of delay that resulted in coast to coast embarrassment and ridicule for Hawkeye State Democrats.
With 62% of precincts in from all 99 Iowa counties, here are the results so far:
- South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg 26.9%
- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders 25.1%
- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren 18.3%
- Vice President Joe Biden 15.6%
- U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar 12.6%
- Andrew Yang 1.1%
- Tom Steyer 0.3%
- U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard 0%
Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price apologized for the delay in a nationally televised news conference, and called the entire episode “unacceptable.”
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Price stressed the results reported Tuesday afternoon were accurate and there was a paper trail that will verify their validity. However, he did not respond to reporters’ questions as to when all 100% of the vote will be reported.
Credit: Charlie Neibergall / AP
Credit: Charlie Neibergall / AP
The news came as chaos and confusion hung over Iowa and the party scrambled to deliver the delayed results of its first-in-the-nation presidential contest. Frustrated presidential candidates plowed ahead in their quest for the White House.
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More than 12 hours after caucus sites across the state closed, not a single vote had been reported and organizers offered no clear timeline — aside for promising that some of the highly anticipated results of the opening contest of the 2020 primary season would come late Tuesday.
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The leading candidates pressed on in next-up New Hampshire, which votes in just seven days, as billionaire Democrat Michael Bloomberg sensed opportunity, vowing to double his already massive advertising campaign and expand his sprawling staff focused on a series of delegate-rich states voting next month.
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Technology problems and reporting “inconsistencies” kept Iowa Democratic Party officials from releasing results from Monday’s caucus, the much-hyped kickoff to the 2020 election. It was an embarrassing twist after months of promoting the contest as a chance for Democrats to find some clarity in a jumbled field with no clear front-runner.
Instead, caucus day ended with no winner, no official results and many fresh questions about whether Iowa can retain its coveted “first” status.
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State party officials said final results would be released later Tuesday and offered assurances that the problem was not a result of “a hack or an intrusion.” Officials were conducting quality checks and verifying results, prioritizing the integrity of the results, the party said in a statement.
President Donald Trump, who will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night while still under a Democrat-led impeachment trial, was quick to turn Iowa Democrats' embarrassment to his advantage:
In a largely symbolic victory, Trump also won Iowa’s GOP caucus against token opposition:
A new mobile app was supposed to help Democratic officials quickly gather information from some 1,700 caucus sites throughout Iowa. Instead, it’s being blamed for delays that left the results unknown the morning after the first-in-the nation nominating contest.
Glitches with a new mobile app Monday caused confusion, and some caucus organizers were forced to call in results for the state party to record manually, introducing delays and the possibility of human error.
The next party caucus is set for Feb. 22 in Nevada, and already Democrats in that state are promising not to use the same app used in Nevada:
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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