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020620 304 The chairman of the Democratic National Committee is calling for a “recanvass” of the results of Monday's Iowa caucus. Technical problems and delays have marred the first contest on the 2020 election calendar. The current results show Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders nearly tied with almost all the votes counted. But the race remained too early to call early Thursday, with 97% of precincts reporting. Party officials are scrambling to verify the remaining results three days after

020520 504 For the second time today, the Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday’s presidential caucuses. With 86 percent of the precincts reporting. Pete Buttigieg retains his lead. The former Mayor of South Bend, IN now has collected 26.7 percent of the state delegate equivalents, and Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders and 25.4 percent. Massachusetts US Senator Elizabeth Warren holds 18.3 percent of the delegates and former vice president Joe Biden has 15.9 percent. Amy

020520 404 Pete Buttigieg is clinging to a slight lead over Bernie Sanders in a new batch of votes released by the Iowa Democratic Party. The race remained too early to call with 75% of precincts reporting by today, almost two full days after the state hosted its first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. Much of the political world has already shifted its attention to New Hampshire, which votes on Tuesday. Wednesday's updated results show Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar trailing.

It's still too early to call a winner among the Democratic presidential candidates in the Iowa caucuses. According to partial results released by the Iowa Democratic Party, Pete Buttigieg is holding a slight lead over Bernie Sanders in the opening contest of the Democratic race for the presidential nomination. The next contest in the election season is the New Hampshire primary this coming Tuesday. The initial Iowa results came out after 24 hours of chaos. Technical problems marred the

Initial data released by the Iowa Democratic Party shows Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders ahead in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. The tally of state delegate equivalents released Tuesday shows Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar trailing behind. The party released 62% of results from all 99 counties after a daylong delay sparked by technical problems. It was unclear when the remaining results will be released by the party, which says it is still verifying data

020420 404 Iowa's traditional role of creating certainty in the presidential nominating contest has been turned on its head thanks to a meltdown in last night’s caucus. About half of the caucus results are expected this afternoon at 4:00 central time, but final results may not be imminent. A fractional result may not provide clarity in a race that saw a number of candidates bunched together in the polls. The plan already drew objections. On a conference call, a representative of former Vice

020420 304 The Iowa Democratic Party plans to release partial caucus results at 4 p.m. today, hours after thousands of Iowans cast their preferences in the presidential contest. About half of the results will be released. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price said in a statement this morning that the app used to report results had a coding error and had been fixed. He said the coding error did not impact the data itself, which the party is checking alongside paper records to verify. The company

Iowa Democratic Party Chair, Troy Price, courtesy, iowademocrats.org Edit | Remove 020420 Noon Iowa Democratic Party officials say they expect to have some caucus results this afternoon, after some technology-based delayed reporting. The party says those delays were due to a coding issue that has been fixed. Party Chair Troy Price says independent cybersecurity consultants tested the systems before the caucuses. Candidates left Iowa last night for New Hampshire, not knowing who won. Iowa's

The Iowa Democratic Party says results from the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses have been delayed indefinitely due to “quality checks” and “inconsistencies” in some reporting. Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer spent last night at ONE caucus in Sioux City where things appeared to run smoothly. “I hereby call this caucus to order.” Abbie Gaffey leads the caucus for the 19th Precinct at North Middle School’s library in Sioux City, one of more than 40 locations in Woodbury County. One

020320 504 Iowa caucus-goers across will go to their 16-hundred precincts tonight and make the first decisions in the presidential nominating process. a highly anticipated poll that was canceled over the weekend makes it still an unclear race. Pollsters behind the Des Moines Register/CNN Iowa poll decided not to release the results of its final highly anticipated survey before the Iowa caucuses. The release of the poll was canceled after former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s campaign raised