Ted Cruz won the Republican contest with 27.6% of the votes and 8 delegates, followed by Donald Trump (24.3% and 7) and Marco Rubio (23.1% and 7).
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The pre-election voter surveys in New Hampshire show Trump with a commanding lead over other Republican challengers, but the polling was conducted before Iowa Republicans dented his claim that he only wins.
Sanders said the caucus ended in a “virtual tie” late Monday night, with one of his advisers saying their campaign took on Clinton’s and “fought them to a draw”, reported the Associated Press.
Cruz rode to victory on the support of Iowa’s evangelical Christians, and acknowledged their shared religious faith in his victory speech.
After what seemed like a very long silence by his standards, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Tuesday morning, striking an uncharacteristically low-key tone.
Sanders was down 41 points in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Iowa Poll last July, and finished just three-tenths of a percentage point behind Clinton, who wasn’t declared the caucus victor until the following day.
According to the publication, although Rubio came in third as projected, he did so very close to his opponents which was promising for his campaign.
Coin flip… The race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was so close, it was literally a toss-up in a few Democratic caucus precincts – where a coin flip determined the delegates.
“The media has not covered my long-shot great finish in Iowa fairly. I think we can probably do better”. Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown was expected to endorse Trump at a Tuesday night rally in New Hampshire. What’s more, both candidates are Cuban-American and both competed with Trump without Latino support (Iowa voters are 97 percent non-Hispanic).
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the son and brother of two USA presidents, has made numerous political stops in New Hampshire and is also looking to breathe new life into his well-funded, but stumbling campaign.
For now, Rubio is running with the baton from the centrists and Cruz is repping the further-right.
The Iowa caucuses, the kick-off event of the U.S. presidential primary season, have revealed much but settled nothing.
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The Democratic candidate heads to New Hampshire Wednesday for a televised town hall ahead of the nation’s first primary in the state, scheduled on February 9.
