Posted on 02/04/2020 9:55:15 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg maintained his slim lead in the Iowa caucuses after the second round of results from the Monday night contest was released.
The results, which accounted for roughly 71 percent of the precincts that voted, showed the former South Bend, Ind., mayor with 26.8 percent of the delegate share. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) nipped at his heels with 25.2 percent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden rounded out the top four with 18.4 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively.
The Iowa Democratic Party earlier Tuesday released results for 62 percent of precincts, showing Buttigieg and Sanders in the lead. With the substantial number of precincts left to count and the margin so slim, the race remains too close to call.
Despite no official winner being declared, Buttigieg has already declared himself the victor as he works to gin up support heading into the New Hampshire primary next week.
“So we don’t know all the numbers, but we know this much: a campaign that started a year ago with four staff members, no name recognition, no money, just a big idea, a campaign that some said should have no business even making this attempt, has taken its place at the front of this race to replace the current president with a better vision for the future,” he said at a campaign stop Tuesday.
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Caucuses are a brilliant system. Better than popular vote primaries.
SDE is best way to determine place of finish.
The idea of declaring a winner is what is absurd. Cuz of media.
Bernie may win SDE.
Buttigig lead shrank again
97% of vote
Leads by 3 SDE. 0.1%
About 75 SDE remain to be counted
It’s going to look like they manipulated the counting to keep Bernie in 2nd place for 5 days
But Bernie is winning the popular vote by about 2521 votes. I wonder whether the RATs will protest if Bernie wins the popular vote but loses the delegate count in Iowa’s version of the Electoral College.
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