With 96 percent of the results from Monday’s caucus in Iowa in, Pete Buttigieg is neck and neck with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the top spot.
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By Ted Johnson
CNN has scheduled town halls with seven Democratic presidential candidates the week before the Iowa caucuses.
The network said that the back-to-back events will give the candidates an opportunity to deliver closing arguments before the first contest in the 2020 election.
As of now, the town halls are scheduled for Jan. 28 and 29 from the campus of Drake University in Des Moines. On the first night, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer are
With 96 percent of the results from Monday’s caucus in Iowa in, Pete Buttigieg is neck and neck with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the top spot.
The political strategistat the center of the Iowa caucus debacle is doing damage control with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, in the wake of scrutiny of her company's role in developing Shadow, the vote-reporting app which caused much of the vote-counting meltdown."It pains me immensely that we have brought any question or doubt to your minds about our ability to do this work following the error by the Shadow team and the events that unfolded in Iowa," wrote Tara
Pete Buttigieg, the most successful openly gay candidate in U.S. history, is clinging to a lead in the bungled counting process in the first electoral test in the 2020 presidential campaign.
Pete Buttigieg – Photo: PBS.
Late-night hosts took on the Iowa caucus debacle during Tuesday's episodes of their shows.Following inconsistencies with data and technical glitches on an app designed to count the votes, the Democratic results from Monday's first contest of the 2020 presidential election were delayed, with only partial results released Tuesday afternoon.In a segment called "Io-What the Hell," The Late Show's Stephen Colbert joked that "cable news anchors looked like they were drowning" while waiting to report
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The Iowa Democratic Party released partial results of its kickoff presidential caucus after a daylong delay late Tuesday showing former Midwestern Mayor Pete Buttigieg and progressive Vermont Sen.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders held a lead in the Iowa caucus results, with about 62% of precincts reported late on Tuesday afternoon.
By Ted Johnson
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By Erik Pedersen
The Iowa caucus which, for the Democratic Party at least, devolved into a disaster involving delayed numbers and a faulty app, drew a total of 8.5 million viewers across the three major cable networks.
The results of the Iowa Democratic Party caucuses remain up in the air.
The results of the Iowa caucuses, the first-in-the-nation contest for the Democratic presidential primary, remained up in the air late Monday as technical difficulties prompted at least one candidate to call for withholding officials results.
Democratic party officials in Iowa worked furiously Tuesday to deliver the delayed results of their first-in-the-nation caucus, as frustrated presidential candidates claimed momentum and plowed ahead in their quest for the White House.In a statement early Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party blamed a "coding issue in the reporting system" that it said has since been fixed. The problem kept party officials from releasing results from Monday's caucus, the much-hyped kickoff to the 2020 primary.
Results have been delayed in the Iowa caucus, as Democratic Party officials were seeking to reconcile “inconsistencies” in the initial tabulations.
By Ted Johnson
Thousands are set to cast ballots this week on two important races: the Iowa caucus and the Oscars, both of which rely on ranked-choice voting systems that are commonly misunderstood.
Pete Buttigieg – Photo: LGBTQ Victory Fund.