Pete Buttigieg leads in 2020 Iowa caucuses with more than half of precincts reporting results
With 62% of precincts reporting, the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor leads the field with 26.9% of the state’s delegate equivalents.
Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines Register
‘It was a total mess’: Caucusing is long over, but Iowa still doesn’t have a winner
Reporting problems meant that no official results were available to campaigns, the press or the public, leaving the field in a state of uncertainty.
‘I would obey any subpoena’: Joe Biden now says
After telling the Register’s editorial board Friday he would not comply with a Senate impeachment trial subpoena, Biden seemed to reverse course Saturday.
Pete Buttigieg in Iowa: President Trump’s intervention in Navy SEALs case ‘short-circuits military justice’
“The worst part about it is it feels like now our own president is saying that a war fighter and a war criminal are the same,” Buttigieg said in Iowa.
Iowa Poll: Pete Buttigieg rockets to the top of the 2020 field as a clear front-runner
Buttigieg’s rise from 1% in the Register’s March poll to the top of it today reflects the selling point of Iowa’s system, pollster J. Ann Selzer said.
Iowa Poll: Joe Biden leads, followed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg
There is some significant upside for Kamala Harris in the poll, and some warning signs for Joe Biden.