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Iowa Democrats dialing delayed – Republicans scoff

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“Very, very messy what’s going on here”

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The announcement of the election results in Iowa is delayed. There have been inconsistencies in the primaries that have led to different results, reports US correspondent Steffen Schwarzkopf. For Trump’s supporters, a feast.

Technical problems cause confusion when the Democrats are first dialed. There should be “discrepancies” in the data transmission. It is still unclear which candidates are ahead. Bernie Sanders declared himself the winner.

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DThe publication of the results of the first Democratic primary in the US presidential race in the state of Iowa is delayed. American media reported late Monday evening (local time), citing the state’s Democratic Party, that the reason was “inconsistency” in three different records on election results. The correctness of the results has top priority. 25 percent of the electoral districts reported results. It is not a hacker attack.

The leftist Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself the winner of the area code, according to information from the AFP news agency. After counting just under 40 percent of the votes, the 78-year-old was 28.6 percent ahead of the former mayor Pete Buttigieg, who came to 25.7 percent, Sanders’ campaign team said, citing internal calculations. Senator Elizabeth Warren followed in third place. Ex-President Joe Biden, who was one of the favorites, only made it to fourth place, and Senator Amy Klobuchar to fifth place.

Republicans scoff

Sander’s campaign team said it recognized that the internal counts collected by volunteers did not replace the party’s official results. Sanders’ supporters had worked too hard and too long to delay the results of this work. The campaign team published the internal figures “in the interest of complete transparency”. Earlier, Buttigieg had said in front of followers that he was “victorious” in the next primaries in New Hampshire, which will take place next Tuesday.

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The CNN broadcaster reported that the Democrats hoped for results “sometime on Tuesday”. The broadcaster spoke of an “incredible failure”. US President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale ridiculed the Democrats. You couldn’t even run a prefix, but you wanted to take over the government, he wrote on Twitter. President son Eric Trump wrote on Twitter, so people didn’t want the Democrats to rule the United States.

Several Democratic candidates for the Democratic presidential candidacy appeared in front of their supporters in Iowa’s capital Des Moines on Monday evening without knowing the result of the primary. They focused on attacks against Trump.

Beginning of Trump’s end

Former Vice President Joe Biden warned that another four years of Trump would fundamentally change the character of the United States. Senator Bernie Sanders said, “Today marks the beginning of the end of Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history.” Senator Elizabeth Warren said: “As a party, we are one step closer to becoming the most corrupt president in American history today defeat.”

At party rallies in Iowa, Democrats and Republicans voted on Monday night over who they thought was the best presidential candidate for their party. The procedure for these “caucus” meetings is complicated and differs significantly from voting on ballot papers. The Iowa primaries are the first in the US to run for the party’s presidential nomination.

As expected, President Donald Trump won the Republican’s first primary with an overwhelming majority. That had been a matter of form: the incumbent had no promising challengers.

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Former Federal Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) – – – – –

The Democrats, on the other hand, have a large field of applicants. In total there were almost 30 candidates for the presidential candidacy, 17 have already quit, 11 are still left. At the national level, surveys have long led – in changing constellations – a leadership trio: the moderate ex-Vice President Biden and the two left senators Sanders and Warren. The presidential election is scheduled for November 3.

State with great signal effect

In surveys in Iowa, Biden had also been in first place over long distances. Finally Sanders passed him and secured the favorite role there. Meanwhile, the 38-year-old ex-mayor of Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, had also led the polls in Iowa. So it was an exciting race. The Democrats in Iowa spoke of a high turnout on Monday evening.

Iowa, with its three million inhabitants, is not a heavyweight at the national level and only sends a few delegates to the nomination party conferences of Democrats and Republicans in the summer. In the small country, however, it has often been shown in the past who ultimately wins the race as a candidate for his party. So the signal effect is great.

Shortly after Iowa, the next area code will be in New Hampshire on February 11th. There, too, Sanders is at the forefront in polls among the democratic presidential candidates – even at a clear distance from Biden. The next big milestone will follow on March 3: “Super Tuesday” with votes in more than a dozen US states. The primaries run until June.

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US journalist George Packer – – – – –

At major nomination party conferences, Democrats and Republicans will finally elect their presidential candidates in the summer – the Democrats in Milwaukee in July and the Republicans in Charlotte in August. Delegates are sent from each US state to these party conferences.

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