After Two Primary Contests, What’s Ahead for the Democratic Race?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, voters in New Hampshire cast their ballots in the Democratic Presidential primary. Following the debacle surrounding the Iowa caucuses, many Democrats hoped that the results from New Hampshire would bring clarity to the race. Bernie Sanders won, arguably making him the front-runner. But close behind him was Pete Buttigieg, who also narrowly won the Iowa caucuses, and Amy Klobuchar, whose third-place finish gave her campaign renewed energy. Benjamin Wallace-Wells joins Eric Lach to discuss the New Hampshire primaries and how a clear picture of the future of the Democratic contest remains elusive.
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| 1:01.0 | Two states have now voted in the 2020 presidential race, Iowa and New Hampshire. |
| 1:06.1 | In Iowa, a year-long campaign that featured dozens of candidates clashes over the future of the Democratic |
| 1:11.8 | Party and plenty of old school flesh-pressing retail politics ended in chaos. |
| 1:17.5 | An under-prepared state party and a malfunctioning iPhone app caused delays in reporting the results, |
| 1:23.2 | which in any case were maddeningly close. |
| 1:26.5 | In the end, Ernie Sanders had won the popular vote in Iowa, |
| 1:29.7 | while Pete Buttigieg had, because of the rules of how the Iowa caucuses work, captured more |
| 1:34.7 | of the state delegates. This week's New Hampshire primary, mercifully, had a clearer outcome. |
| 1:40.3 | Sanders won there, closely followed by Buttigieg, with a strong third-place finish from Amy Klobuchar. |
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