There has been a delay in the contest results for choosing the Democrats candidate for the White House in Iowa. The delay is down to technical glitches. This delay has led to chaos and, Donald Trump declared it a victory.
The contest at Iowa represents the first stage for the Democrats to choose a Presidential candidate to represent the party. This is for the Presidential election that will hold in November. As of Tuesday morning, the result for the contest remains unknown. The blame of outcome is on “coding error” in the application that’s supposed to report the result by Democratic officials.
Trump Mocks the Democrats
Donald Trump, who easily won the contest to represent the Republicans, described the chaos in Iowa as “an unmitigated disaster,” in a tweet.
Big WIN for us in Iowa tonight. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2020
Furthermore, he also added that the current debacle facing the Democrats is a huge victory for him.
According to reports, democratic officials plan on calculating the votes for the contest in Iowa by hand.
Moreover, a lot of people are skeptical of the caucus process due to the indeterminate result. Questions that have long led to debates if the first primary contest should continue to hold in Iowa arise again. This is because Iowa, a rural white state, does not represent the US electorate as a whole.
Trump is against any change concerning changing the trend. And in his words, he tweeted, “as long as I’m president, Iowa will stay where it is. Important tradition!
Hopeful Democrats looking forward to contesting against Trump in November have already moved on. With many already in New Hampshire, which is the place where the next primary contest will take place on the 11th of February.
Events at the caucuses?
The vote in Iowa took place in more than 1,6000 libraries, churches, and schools. Many voters went out of the way to vote to decide who will be representing Democrats in the presidential election come November.
The fact remains that the winner for the Democratic race remains unknown. Meanwhile, Trump emerged the winner of the Republican contest, winning 97% of the votes.
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Several Democratic contestants claim victory despite the lack of results.
The senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders, claims to be the winner in the caucuses in Iowa. He says that an internal data campaign puts him ahead of the former mayor of south bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg.
Who’s Going to emerge for the Democrats?
Mr. Buttigieg informed his supporters that ” by all indications,” he is going to come out victorious in the next contest in New Hampshire.
The voting process in Iowa is a caucus. Usually, a meeting precedes voting on any candidate.
TheAt conduct the meeting by headcount or by raising of hands.
Unlike primary voting in Iowa, voting in places like New Hampshire involves polling a booth and voting in secret.
The response of the organizers to the situation
Initially, the democratic party in Iowa denied that the problem that caused the delay was due to the malfunctioning of the application.
But the IDP chairman, Tom Price, admitted on Tuesday that the delay is due to error in the application. This was discovered after an investigation. Mr. Price said that the underlying data collected via the app was sound, but only part of the data was displaying in reports.”
So far, Trump’s camp is happy with the chaos the Democrats are facing. Also, this was evident in what Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said. He said that Democrats were “stewing in the caucus mess of their own creation with the sloppiest train wreck in history.”
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