Iowa caucus: Hillary Clinton edges to victory

Iowa… People celebrate as Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is declared the victor at the caucus night gathering. It appears as I write this that Hillary Clinton will squeeze out a very narrow victory over Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton won Bernie Sanders with a razor-thin lead in the Iowa caucuses, according to results announced by Iowa Democratic Party Tuesday.

The close margin didn’t stop Mrs Clinton from declaring an outright victory.

Mr Trump came in second slightly ahead of Mr Rubio, whose stronger-than-expected finish could help cement his status as the favourite of mainstream Republican voters who worry that Mr Cruz and Mr Trump are too extreme to win the November general election.

But with Sanders on track to win the Democratic primary in his neighboring state of New Hampshire Feb. 9, Clinton is now pinning her hopes to primaries in SC and Nevada to convince donors and supporters that she has the staying power to win the nomination.

Ted Cruz of stealing his first-place victory and calling for Cruz’s win to be nullified or for a new Iowa vote to take place.

“That could’ve been with the debate”, Trump acknowledged to reporters in Milford, New Hampshire, where he was introduced and endorsed by former Massachusetts Sen.

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In past presidential elections, Republican conservative stalwarts who won in Iowa faded as the race moved to other states. Though he won over Iowans, New Hampshire is a different electorate.

Trump finished the night with 24% of the Iowa vote, for a strong second-place showing behind Texas Sen. The Florida senator said Cruz has “criticized (Trump’s) New York values but has raised millions of dollars in New York City”.

Trump then argued that the gap between his results and Rubio is much wider than widely acknowledged.

While Trump said: “We’re just so happy with the way everything’s worked out”. Certainly, he’s going to need more than a quarter of the vote – what he received in Iowa.

Asked before a rally in Milford, New Hampshire on Tuesday evening if he planned to change his campaign strategy, Trump told a news conference he felt confident in his methods, but he was adding more town hall-style events.