’53, a professor of Government and an outspoken Conservative, disagreed about the significance of the result for Sanders. He took third place with less than one percent. By then, the candidates had moved on. Buoyed by evangelical voters, Cruz thanked God.
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“The media has not covered my long-shot great finish in Iowa fairly”, he lamented.
“We will go on to get the Republican nomination, and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up there”, Trump said. “He’s expanding the party like nobody else, and I think it showed in the caucus, and I think it’s going to show even more here in the Republican Party”, he said. Rubio finished just behind Trump and tied him in delegates obtained from the results.
Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, NPR walked back the report on its election page to say that Clinton “appears to have won” and noted that the race had not been officially called.
On the Democratic side, what was essentially a tie between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. “It is rare, it is rare that we have the opportunity we do now”.
But regardless, it’s unlikely that the coin tosses affected the outcome – the official results are 700.59 state delegate equivalents for Clinton (49.8 percent), 696.82 SDEs for Sanders (49.6 percent).
“A win is a win and it gives him momentum and it certainly will encourage his financial base to contribute more money to his campaign”, said David Butts, a political consultant who has been working Texas races for more than 30 years.
Duprey also worked with her husband on John McCain’s 2008 campaign and was New Hampshire finance committee co-chair for former President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign.
After placing second in Iowa’s Republican caucus, Donald Trump closed out Monday night with a less-than-five minute speech to supporters – a sharp contrast to his usual addresses, which often run closer to an hour.
Mrs. Clinton ended the rally by telling the crowd: “Stand up for me, fight for me and if we win, I will stand up and fight for every one of you every single day”.
“I think he’s done pretty well from the start”, said Eli Johnson, 33, from nearby Brookline, New Hampshire.
The party reported Hillary Clinton received 700.59 state delegate equivalents, Bernie Sanders received 696.82 state delegate equivalents, Martin O’Malley received 7.61 state delegate equivalents and Uncommitted received. Some pundits proclaim that Cruz will do better in the many states that Huckabee and Santorum did poorly in after they won Iowa, when their campaigns quickly fizzled. It probably matters a bit less than in Iowa, where everyone’s supposed to be at the caucus at the same time.
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Caucuses, a series of meetings in which voters show their support for candidates, determine who becomes each party’s presidential candidate. But just like Clinton, Sanders also claimed a victory out of Iowa. “There would have to be at least some jitters over the guy who plans to break up the big banks”.
