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 campaigns 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. Bidens campaign took a more combative approach, repeatedly questioning in public and private the integrity of the caucuses and objecting to the partys plans for releasing the results.
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Blood on the tracks: the Iowa carcasses.
they want to take him down before november because they know they don’t stand a chance otherwise...
Democrat presser due in 15. Heads up!
Democrat media is just as much in the dark as we are.
They can’t risk Bernie winning as big as he did.
Whatever happened to the Dems saying “Every vote counts.”? Even the dead voters count with them.
What a bunch of dopes orchestrating a major fuster-cluck. Aka FUBAR
Waiting for the presser. No guarantee complete results will be released today.
QA? Who’s got time for that? It seems the local power is falling into the hands of a lot of young people. They don’t have the maturity, experience and patience to organize, lead and conduct large complex tasks. Hundreds of thousands of AOC’s all over the country think THEY should be in charge. They learned everything they need to know in SJW 101! QA? LOL, OK Boomer!
15 minutes to go till first results are posted.
The Buttigieg campaign was into Shadow, which made the app. Shadow also did tech for Obama and Hillary. Not amateurs.
Dont forget they sabotaged the land line phones too.
Fellow Americans:
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Democrat presser running late...
Ten minutes to go before first results are posted.
Its 4:50 eastern.
Dems ? Hello ?
btt
This is pretty hilarious.
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