Des Moines (Iowa) / Washington.- The former mayor Pete Buttigieg and the senator Bernie Sanders They lead the results of the caucus held on Monday in Iowa, according to partial data published on Tuesday by the Democratic Party of that state, with 62% of the constituencies scrutinized.
Buttigieg accumulates 27% of the votes, followed by Sanders, with 25%; Senator Elizabeth Warren, with 18.3%; and former Vice President Joe Biden, with 15.6%, according to official data converted into percentages by the mainstream media.
The inability to offer the results in the caucus held on Monday in Iowa on time, in the formal start-up of the election primaries, as well as by the teasing of the president, Donald Trump, caused frustration and confusion among the Democrats.
A “code error” in the application used yesterday to collect the count is responsible for the delay in the publication of the results, according to the state Democratic Party.
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Opaque by the doubts of the previous day, the Democratic Party in Iowa began to spread on Tuesday the partial results of the first state party assembly of the country of the presidential elections.
The data, released to the public for the first time almost 24 hours after the voting ended, reflected the results of 62% of the state districts.
Although the campaigns were eager to interpret the results in their favor, there was little immediate evidence that the incomplete results clear up the confusion that broke out in the initial elections of the Democratic primary election season.
It is unknown when Iowa will disseminate its final results.
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During a private conference with campaign teams hours earlier, state party president Troy Price refused to answer specific questions about when the final results would be disseminated, even if it was a matter of days or weeks.
“We have worked day and night to ensure these results are accurate,” Price said at a later press conference.
The main candidates then head to New Hampshire, which will hold votes in just seven days, while billionaire Democrat Michael Bloomberg saw an opportunity and promised to double his already huge advertising campaign and expand his staff to focus on a number of contributing states. a large number of delegates and whose elections are next month.
The caucus crisis in the party was a shameful turn after months of promoting voting as an opportunity for the party to find some clarity among the large number of candidates and without a clear favorite.
Instead, after all the expectation generated, with seven debates, more than 1,000 million dollars invested nationwide and a year of political disputes, the caucus day ended without a winner, without official results and with many new questions about If Iowa can retain its status as the first state to vote.
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