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Democratic Infighting Escalates as Candidates Await Iowa Results. Fault lines deepened, and jockeying increased, as the Iowa Democratic Party said in a midday statement that it would begin to announce partial results late in the afternoon.
New York Times ^ | February 4, 2020 3:50 p.m. ET | Alexander Burns and Shane Goldmacher

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: caucus; democrats; ia; iowa; iowacaucus; officiathread; rehash; results
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To: heavy metal

Blood on the tracks: the Iowa carcasses.


41 posted on 02/04/2020 1:30:47 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: goldstategop

they want to take him down before november because they know they don’t stand a chance otherwise...


42 posted on 02/04/2020 1:31:11 PM PST by heavy metal (truth trumps lies...)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Democrat presser due in 15. Heads up!


43 posted on 02/04/2020 1:32:12 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: karpov
The political meltdown is nothing short of fabulous. 😁👍 And the Establishment Media can't do anything about it, either. 😉😆
44 posted on 02/04/2020 1:35:00 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
[Can’t they just set up a simple spreadsheet and manually key in the data? Why is the non functional app seemingly paralyzing everything?]

Hillary can't get her vote-rigging going that way! The Democrats are on fire! (so are their pants, as usual)


45 posted on 02/04/2020 1:35:41 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: goldstategop
I saw on Fox some group is now calling it...Duh Moines.
46 posted on 02/04/2020 1:35:50 PM PST by skimbell
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To: RayChuang88

Democrat media is just as much in the dark as we are.


47 posted on 02/04/2020 1:36:00 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They can’t risk Bernie winning as big as he did.


48 posted on 02/04/2020 1:36:07 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Retrofitted

Whatever happened to the Dems saying “Every vote counts.”? Even the dead voters count with them.


49 posted on 02/04/2020 1:37:42 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: karpov; All

What a bunch of dopes orchestrating a major fuster-cluck. Aka FUBAR


50 posted on 02/04/2020 1:38:57 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: rdl6989

Waiting for the presser. No guarantee complete results will be released today.


51 posted on 02/04/2020 1:39:15 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

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!


52 posted on 02/04/2020 1:40:54 PM PST by ETCM
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To: ETCM

15 minutes to go till first results are posted.


53 posted on 02/04/2020 1:45:03 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Buttigieg campaign was into Shadow, which made the app. Shadow also did tech for Obama and Hillary. Not amateurs.

Don’t forget they sabotaged the land line phones too.


54 posted on 02/04/2020 1:45:33 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: karpov

Fellow Americans:

Operant conditioning via electromagnetic programming and...horrible “food” consumed may have contributed to your anxious disintegrating mindset. Other factors may include dangerous medications and toxic family, friends and acquaintances. Lack of a positive philosophy is not helpful. Find YOU. Regards.


55 posted on 02/04/2020 1:45:59 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: jjotto

Democrat presser running late...


56 posted on 02/04/2020 1:47:33 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: PGalt

Ten minutes to go before first results are posted.


57 posted on 02/04/2020 1:49:23 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

It’s 4:50 eastern.

Dems ? Hello ?


58 posted on 02/04/2020 1:50:08 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: NohSpinZone

btt


59 posted on 02/04/2020 1:50:48 PM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Drango

This is pretty hilarious.


60 posted on 02/04/2020 1:51:08 PM PST by servantboy777
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