Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is casting her performance in the Iowa caucuses as a win, even though she is separated from rival Bernie Sanders by just a few hundred votes.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told reporters that, “we believe strongly that we won tonight.”
He’s pointing to Clinton’s capture of at least 22 delegates to the party’s national convention to Sanders’ 21, with one left to be decided.
Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said: “We feel like we have great momentum going into New Hampshire. This was a very hard fought state.”
The Associated Press is not declaring a winner in the Iowa caucuses at this time because of the closeness of the race.
Meanwhile, Iowa Democratic Party officials said they are gathering results from a small number of precincts where those in charge failed to report results in Monday’s caucuses.
Polk County Democratic Party Chairman Tom Henderson said he is frustrated that some precincts in his county have failed to report results in a timely fashion.
By midnight, he said he’d tracked down results from 166 of the 167 precincts in the state’s largest county and that someone is being sent to knock on the door of the chairman of the last outstanding precinct.
“I’m frustrated because we do things better than that,” Henderson said. “This is a situation where we have an election that is a near tie. We want to make sure it’s accurate.”
Ted Cruz’s victory in the Iowa caucuses means he’ll collect eight delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio each get seven from the opening contest in the 2016 presidential race.
Coming next is Ben Carson with three, followed by Rand Paul and Jeb Bush — one each.
Delegates are awarded in proportion to the statewide vote.
There are three delegates still to be awarded.
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