Post by Admin on Feb 28, 2020 19:45:56 GMT
The Iowa state Democratic Party has completed its partial recount of the Feb. 3 presidential caucuses, and the result hasn’t changed: Pete Buttigieg still has a very narrow advantage over Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents.
The state party announced Thursday evening that it recounted results in 23 precincts that were requested by both campaigns, and Buttigieg leads Sanders by roughly one state delegate equivalent, a difference of about four hundredths of a percentage point.
The results are still unofficial: The state party must certify the results by Saturday, the day of the South Carolina primary. And the Sanders campaign says it has already asked the Democratic National Committee to step in and review the recount process in Iowa.
The Associated Press said Thursday night it won’t declare a winner in the race until the results are certified, "given remaining concerns about whether the results as reported by the party are fully accurate."