Buttigieg And Sanders Locked In Tight Race After Partial Iowa Results Released
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🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Juana Summers, and senior editor and political correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Aston Trimble from Dewey, Iowa. This is Naomi and Ryan calling for my first Iowa |
| 0:05.5 | caucus in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Hi, this is Terry and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, getting ready to go to our |
| 0:11.3 | caucus date night. I'm headed into caucus for the very first time. This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:18.0 | 601 PM on Tuesday the 4th of February. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:23.6 | like who is one of Iowa caucuses. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:30.6 | Ooh, little did that listener know how much that would change. Wow. Hey there, it's the NPR |
| 0:38.1 | Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Wanda Summers. I cover demographics |
| 0:42.8 | and culture. And I'm Dominican Montenegro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:46.8 | And this is the podcast that we thought we would be doing late last night, but it is now |
| 0:52.6 | 6 o'clock on Tuesday. And we have some results. We have results from the Iowa caucuses with about |
| 0:59.0 | 62% of precincts reporting. Yeah, real votes. If you can believe that after this long delay, |
| 1:04.9 | finally, we have some real numbers. And what we have so far with 62% of the precincts reporting, |
| 1:12.0 | Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, narrowly ahead of Vermont Senator Bernie |
| 1:17.9 | Sanders, Buttigieg has 27% of the estimated delegates. Sanders follows him with 25%. Then Elizabeth |
| 1:27.0 | Warren, the Senator from Massachusetts, furthered back with 18% and third place. Then Joe Biden, |
| 1:32.3 | the former vice president at 16%, really not a great showing for him. And you see Minnesota |
| 1:37.8 | Senator Amy Klobuchar right on Biden's heels with 13%. And then behind her comes Andrew Yang and |
| 1:46.1 | Tom Steyer, who are in the low single digits and fractions of digits. That's right. And they had, |
| 1:52.3 | you know, look, Yang had a lot of energy at a lot of his events, but if you can't make |
| 1:56.1 | viability in these places, if you can't get 15%, then those delegates wind up going to others. |
| 2:01.6 | So this was a failure of semi catastrophic proportions. semi okay, fully completely. |
| 2:10.1 | Well, it would have been worse. It would have been far more catastrophic had there not been paper |
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