BREAKING: AP unable to declare winner of Iowa caucuses

[brooklynite]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Associated Press said Thursday that it is unable to declare a winner of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses.

With 97% of precincts reporting from Monday’s caucuses, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by three state delegate equivalents out of 2,098 counted. That is a margin of 0.14 percentage points.

However, even as the Iowa Democratic Party’s effort to complete its tabulation of the caucus results continues, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Thursday asked the Iowa Democratic Party to conduct a recanvass. That is not a recount, but rather a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added correctly.

https://apnews.com/4f9044fe46f551d397d48dd8ca3d58db

[msongs]

1. pete declaring the win bad, bernie declaring the win good lol nt

[George II]

5. Ironic, isn't it?

[betsuni]

10. Unrigged!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. Pete declared victory before a single vote was tallied.

Bernie waited until 97% of the votes were tallied.

Surely you can see the difference.

Hope this helps.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Stupid way to find a representative for President. nt

[TwilightZone]

3. Bernie declared himself the winner, based on the first vote.

That's all that matters to some, even though the first vote is irrelevant to the end result.

Also find it interesting that some of his supporters blasted Buttigieg for claiming that he won when he was ahead in delegates (he still is, in fact) but have no issues with Sanders doing the same with less evidence and using irrelevant data.

Such is the primaries.

[BusyBeingBest]

4. Congratulations to both the Buttigieg and Sanders campaigns.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Time to send the caucus system packing.

It's officially a joke now.

[PatrickforO]

7. This whole Iowa thing was a disaster.

It makes our entire party look really bad. It just does.

Oh, I know it will blow over and in a week or two there will be bigger fish to fry, but right now, our party, which is supposed to be the sane party with the sane policies that knows how to get things done...isn't. And we look bad.

[Cha]

8. caucuses

[left-of-center2012]

9. Pete's the winner

end of the story

[Doitnow]

12. I'd like to see the last 3% from the 4th satellite caucus which supposedly favored

Bernie before results are truly known. Until then, my opinion is Bernie won. I believe Perez pulled this act during Hillary's run in 2016. (or am I violating some rule by mentioning this?)

[W_HAMILTON]

14. Perez wasn't even in charge of the DNC in 2016.

Holy shit balls, conspiracy theories are so stupid.

[Corgigal]

13. I forgot the name of the podcaster,

but he’s was right, America can’t do close elections.

The presidential election is gonna be a horror show.