Iowa count: Clinton nudges past Sanders in photo-finish race
- 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton appeared to squeak past insurgent rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in Iowa's presidential nominating vote, according to results Tuesday, redeeming a crushing loss here in 2008 but revealing the shortcomings of a candidate who once seemed invincible.
Results from Iowa's Democratic Party, announcing 100 percent of the precincts counted, gave Clinton a whisker-thin margin: 49.8 percent to Sanders's 49.6 percent - setting up what is likely to become a prolonged contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The outcome from Monday's caucuses was a relief for Clinton loyalists confronted in recent weeks with the wrenching possibility that Clinton's second-chance candidacy, like her first, might falter out of the gate and never recover.
Sanders claimed a kind of victory nonetheless, since he so far exceeded expectations.
En route to New Hampshire, he said he was in the race for “the long haul.”
Results from Iowa's Democratic Party, announcing 100 percent of the precincts counted, gave Clinton a whisker-thin margin: 49.8 percent to Sanders's 49.6 percent - setting up what is likely to become a prolonged contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The outcome from Monday's caucuses was a relief for Clinton loyalists confronted in recent weeks with the wrenching possibility that Clinton's second-chance candidacy, like her first, might falter out of the gate and never recover.
Sanders claimed a kind of victory nonetheless, since he so far exceeded expectations.
En route to New Hampshire, he said he was in the race for “the long haul.”