“Statistically, there is no outstanding information that could change the results and no way that Senator Sanders can overcome Secretary Clinton’s advantage”.
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Ted Cruz is the first Hispanic candidate to win a presidential caucus or primary in the US, according to reports.
Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz has celebrated his win over Donald Trump in the Republican caucuses in Iowa. “I think her plans are achievable, and they’re detailed, and I think she’s a much stronger candidate in the general election”, Dover resident Casey Conley said. But before eking out the narrowest of victories against Sanders, Clinton won a truly bizarre-sounding six coin tosses used to decide which candidate would get the votes of several Iowa precincts that were too tied up to call.
“I was telling my people the other day-I said you know, nobody goes around and goes into the voting booth and says, ‘Oh, Trump is self-funding his campaign, I’m gonna vote for him, ‘” Trump said.
Portia Boulger, a 63-year-old who travelled to Iowa from Chillicothe, Ohio to support Sanders, declared a razor-thin outcome as good as a victory for Sanders. The result was a blow to the controversial Trump who had headed the polls leading into the Iowa caucus. The winners of the past two Republican Iowa caucuses were Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012 and, unless I missed it last night, neither President Huckabee nor President Santorum called Cruz to congratulate him on his victory. Marco Rubio’s third-place finish. Washington outsider Trump has a commanding lead in New Hampshire and in national polls.
And though Ms. Clinton welcomed the win, her advisers told The New York Times the close race “privately frustrated” the Clintons, who were hoping the caucuses would give her a chance to solidify her lead before heading into New Hampshire. And she’s still split between Rubio and Ted Cruz-but says Iowa helped her get even more excited about Rubio.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’ Malley received less than 1 percent of the vote and was rewarded 7.61 state delegate equivalents, said the newly released results hours after O’Malley dropped out of the race. On the Democratic side, the split decision in Iowa seems unlikely to scramble the New Hampshire race.
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The Sanders campaign had initially said that it would participate in Thursday’s debate only if Clinton agreed to three additional debates in March, April and May.
