Iowa Caucus 2020
Coverage of the Iowa Caucuses from a Minnesota perspective.
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With Iowa results unknown, Klobuchar moves on to New Hampshire
Amy Klobuchar took her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to New Hampshire with the results of the leadoff caucuses still unknown. Technical problems held up the Iowa results, but the Minnesota senator insists she did better than people thought she would.
When the Minnesota senator took the stage at her campaign party Monday night, not a single official result had been made public. Her campaign was keeping its own count but the senator didn’t say what that was.
Klobuchar told the crowd in a Des Moines hotel ballroom that she was feeling good about how she would fare in the end.
“We know there’s delays, but we know one thing: We are punching above our weight,” she said.
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What went wrong: Tech troubles behind delay in Iowa results
DES MOINES (AP) -- A new mobile app was supposed to help Democratic officials quickly gather information from some 1,700 caucus sites throughout Iowa. Instead, it's being blamed for delays that left the results unknown the morning after the first-in-the nation nominating contest.
Glitches with a new mobile app Monday caused confusion, and some caucus organizers were forced to call in results for the state party to record manually, introducing delays and the possibility of human error. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price said the delays were not the result of a hack or intrusion.
The party said it expects to release data later Tuesday after manually verifying its data against paper backups.
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Early Iowa numbers suggest a tough road ahead for Klobuchar
By Mark Zdechlik | MPR News
If the numbers hold true once everything's counted, Amy Klobuchar does not move on to New Hampshire in the top tier of candidates.
"No one gets momentum out of a fifth-place finish in Iowa,” said Dante Scale, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire. He said Klobuchar's apparent poor showing in Iowa could be the end of her presidential campaign.
"Amy Klobuchar needs to be the story coming out of Iowa, and if these results hold, then Pete Buttigieg will be the story. Bernie Sanders will be the story coming out of Iowa,” he said. “Amy Klobuchar will be an afterthought, and to go from being an afterthought to make a serious play in New Hampshire is awfully, awfully difficult." Read more here.