Posted on 02/04/2020 12:59:41 PM PST by karpov
DES MOINES — The top Democratic presidential candidates sparred on Tuesday with leaders of the Iowa Democratic Party, and at times with one another, in a strenuous effort to shape the terms and timing of the release of results from the presidential caucuses here.
Fault lines that emerged between the campaigns on Monday night quickly deepened on Tuesday, as several campaigns pressed the state party for a speedy and full release of the results and representatives of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. continued to criticize the legitimacy of the process.
The state party said in a midday statement that it would begin to announce partial results late in the afternoon, frustrating campaigns that feared a partial release of data would offer a misleading picture of the outcome and throw the presidential race into further disarray. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont did not wait for Iowa officials; citing his campaign’s internal data, he all but declared victory as he waited to fly to New Hampshire.
Troy Price, the state party chairman at the center of the maelstrom, declined to lay out a timeline for completing the tabulation and releasing the results.
On a midday conference call and in other private conversations with Iowa party leaders, representatives for Mr. Sanders, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota urged local officials to provide the most complete set of results possible, and several campaign emissaries pushed for access to the paper trail that the party was using to verify returns from the caucuses.
Mr. Biden’s campaign took a more combative approach, repeatedly questioning — in public and private — the integrity of the caucuses and objecting to the party’s plans for releasing the results.
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41 Sanders
21 Bloomberg
19 Biden
12 Buttigieg
06 Warren
06 Yang
04 Clinton
03 Klobuchar
IOWA....too white...too old...
(according to RATS per Faux News)
Partial results? But.. but... but they said ALL the data had been collected; it was just the reporting that was screwed up. So shouldn’t they just fix the reporting and get ALL the results?
“several campaign emissaries pushed for access to the paper trail that the party was using to verify returns from the caucuses.”
A racist conspiracy theory (when it’s other than Democrats calling for it).
I want the donkeys to run our country, our health care, our military and our foreign policy. /not
This reflects poorly on actual clown cars.
Eventually, a dying organism always begins to consume itself.
Maybe they had to hire some coal miners to count the votes.
These life forms called Democrats want to control our country.
They can’t control their own party, their own caucus, their own platform, which is stacked with junk, old pails of spent dirty tricks, and the like, and yet they believe they should be in charge!
This November the results cannot even be close.
First result out in an hour. Mods - make this the official Iowa Caucuses results thread.
The data said the wrong thing so they are modifying it.
What do you want to bet that gets delayed too?
More popcorn!
We’ll see what the vote breakdown will be.
G-d dems.
Seriously I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH POPCORN!
We have 45 minutes according to CNN. Their chyron just said an Iowa Democrat Party announcement is expected at 4:45 PM EST.
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