Prime Time Primary
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's say, let's get after it. |
| 0:02.0 | All the Iowa results are now in. |
| 0:09.2 | We actually broke the news to the candidate with the razor-thin lead a short while ago, |
| 0:14.5 | right here during a town hall. |
| 0:18.0 | The Iowa Democratic Party just released the final batch of results from the caucuses. |
| 0:23.4 | 100% of precincts reporting. |
| 0:26.8 | You are holding a narrow lead of a 10th of a percentage point over Senator Sanders |
| 0:33.2 | on the state delegate equivalence, which is the metric that we use to determine a winner. |
| 0:39.7 | What is your reaction? |
| 0:40.8 | Well, it's fantastic news. |
| 0:45.8 | Senator Sanders clearly had a great night, too, and I congratulate him and his supporters. |
| 0:50.5 | We won, says Pete Buttigieg, but just an hour before Bernie Sanders said the same thing, |
| 0:58.2 | standing alongside Anderson. |
| 1:01.6 | We won an Iowa. |
| 1:02.7 | We ended up winning the popular vote by 6,000, and I suspect that at the end of the day, Mr. Buttigieg and I |
| 1:09.4 | will have an equal number of delegates to the national convention. |
| 1:14.9 | Now, the popular vote is not the metric that counts. |
| 1:20.8 | Regardless, a CNN analysis shows errors in the counts that were reported by the Iowa Democratic |
| 1:26.6 | Party. That's not good for anybody. The head of the DNC, Tom Perez, says he wants a recanvis |
| 1:33.3 | of the results. But there's a catch on that, all right? Candidates have until 1 p.m. |
| 1:39.3 | Eastern to file a request for recanvising or a recount. The key word is candidates. |
| 1:46.8 | Buttigieg suggested to me that his campaign is not going to push the issue. Bernie Sanders |
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