Iowa Results Waylaid By "Technical Difficulties," Democrats Say
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🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Several Democratic contenders delivered what sounded like victory speeches, even though state officials have not yet released vote totals.
It is unclear when officials plan on announcing the results.
This episode: White House Correspondent Tamara Keith, election security and voting reporter Miles Parks, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Asma Khalid, I'm covering the 2020 campaign. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting. |
| 0:11.5 | And the time now is 12.55 AM Eastern on Tuesday, 4th of January. |
| 0:17.6 | It is now the early morning hours after the Iowa caucuses. |
| 0:22.5 | It is far later than we expected to be sitting down in the studio and certainly later than |
| 0:27.8 | many of the candidates were expecting. |
| 0:29.6 | This was not the night that they were expecting to have. |
| 0:32.7 | Let me begin by stating that I imagine have a strong feeling that at some point the results |
| 0:42.8 | will be announced. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, it looks like it's going to be a long night, but not feeling good. |
| 0:48.4 | So listen, it is too close to call, so I'm just going to tell you what I do know. |
| 0:53.6 | You won! |
| 0:55.8 | By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious. |
| 1:01.4 | So we have a scenario that's a little bit like kindergarten soccer where everyone is a |
| 1:06.4 | winner. |
| 1:07.4 | We will talk about what that means, but first, Miles Parks, you cover election security. |
| 1:11.6 | What is going on? |
| 1:12.6 | Something has gone terribly wrong in Iowa. |
| 1:15.4 | Right, we are still trying to figure out the specifics of what is going on, but what |
| 1:19.2 | we do know at this point is that over the 1600 precincts across Iowa, they all had |
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