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2020 Democratic candidates are claiming their own Iowa caucus results to fill the vacuum caused by a technical delay. Here's what they're saying.
2020 Democratic candidates are claiming their own Iowa caucus results to fill the vacuum caused by a technical delay. Here's what they're saying.
Bill Bostock,Bill BostockFeb 4, 2020, 16:48 IST
Democratic presidential candidates are preempting the Iowa caucus' delayed results as they head off to New Hampshire.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed victory, while Sen. Bernie Sanders predicting himself doing "very, very well." Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were also optimistic.
The results were due out late Monday night, but were delayed after an app designed to transmit voter data to the Iowa Democratic Party malfunctioned.
Scroll down to see what the candidates are saying so far. We will update this post as more statements come in.
Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said the results will be out "later" on Tuesday. As of 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, the state Democratic Party has reported data for 0% of the precincts. See our live results here.
"This is simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion. The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results," a statement front the Iowa Democratic Party read.
But the main Democratic Party candidates were all optimistic, with former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg going as far as to claim victory.
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Here's what the candidates are saying so far. We will update this post as more statements come in.
Sen. Bernie Sanders released what his campaign called "internal caucus numbers" that showed him winning.
Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser for the Sanders campaign, released the campaign's "internal reporting numbers" in an email early Tuesday morning.
The campaign said these figure represent the results from nearly 40% of Iowa precincts, and collected by Sanders volunteers across the state.
The preliminary figures showed Sanders gaining 29.66% of the vote, with Buttigieg coming second with 24.59%.
Sanders also said Monday: "I have a strong feeling that at some point the results will be announced and when those results are announced, I have a good feeling we're going to be doing very, very well here in Iowa."
Here's what Sanders' internal, preliminary results looked like:
Former Vice President Joe Biden erred on the side of caution, but focused on the positives.
"It's gonna be close. We're gonna walk out of here with our share of delegates. We don't know exactly what is it yet, but we feel good about where we are," he told supporters in Des Moines.
Andrew Yang was tight-lipped on the result, but optimistic.
Yang didn't say anything about the Iowa caucus results, but remained optimistic about the next caucuses in New Hampshire.
In a Monday night speech in Iowa he thanked his supporters and family, saying he "shocked the world time and time again."
He was also optimistic, saying: "I'm going right from here to New Hampshire, where I will be one of the seven candidates on the debate stage on Friday night."
Sen. Amy Klobuchar hinted at a relative victory, telling fans "we are punching above our weight."
