Hillary Clinton narrowly wins Democratic Iowa caucuses

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday accused rival Ted Cruz of stealing a victory in the Iowa caucuses and called for another vote or nullification of Cruz’s win.

Sanders’ is still skeptical of the counts, he told reporters on Tuesday in New Hampshire, “we want to look at some of the numbers, as I understand it, there were some precincts where actually delegates were won with a flip of a coin actually”.

The outcome in the country’s first nominating contest drew a line under voter dissatisfaction, especially among Republicans, with the way government in Washington operates, with anger over growing income inequality and fears of global turmoil and terrorism. The same goes for Cruz.

Mr Donald Trump has led every poll in New Hampshire for months, often by huge margins.

Trump said that, before the results showed that Cruz defeated him, he had started to believe that maybe he could win Iowa, though he said the state he “really was counting on was New Hampshire”. But New Hampshire is also familiar territory for Sanders, who represents neighboring Vermont in the Senate and is well known among the state’s voters. Bert Jones, who is a big Trump supporter. And he vowed to keep up his fight, telling supporters that “we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up”.

The conservative Weekly Standard notes that many political observers thought Trump would benefit from the record turnout in Iowa, which would probably not include large numbers of evangelical Christians based on 2012’s caucus.

The Democratic presidential contenders, Clinton and Sanders, also headed to New Hampshire after their close duel in Iowa, where the former secretary of state narrowly edged out the insurgent USA senator from Vermont.

Ms. Clinton’s campaign put much of its stock in Iowa, and Sen. She stopped short of claiming victory.

In 2008, an insurgent Senator Barack Obama used a victory in the Iowa Caucuses over Clinton as a springboard to the Democratic nomination and, eventually, the White House.

Sanders wasted no time in pushing ahead, delivering a stump speech on the back of a pick-up truck after he landed in the early hours of Tuesday morning in New Hampshire, which votes on February 9th.

Iowa has long led off the state-by-state contests to choose delegates for the parties’ national conventions. Former Florida Gov. Bush and New Jersey Gov. Christie are bunched relatively closely together with them as well.

For all his campaigners’ hard work, Cruz now has eight of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination.