{"id":21586,"date":"2020-02-04T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:18:20","slug":"pete-buttigieg-takes-lead-in-iowa-caucuses-partial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21586","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg takes lead in Iowa caucuses partial results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-dateline\">DES MOINES \u2014 <\/span>Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are leading in partial results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses released Tuesday afternoon, nearly a full day after the Hawkeye State held the first presidential nominating contest in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa&#8217;s Democratic Party said results from 62% of precincts show Mr Buttigieg on 26.9% with Bernie Sanders on 25.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Warren was third on 18.3% and Joe Biden fourth on 15.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The eventual nominee will challenge President Donald Trump, a Republican, in November&#8217;s White House election.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Klobuchar was on 12.6%, and Andrew Yang on 1.1%, according to the other preliminary results released on Tuesday evening from all of Iowa&#8217;s 99 counties. Tom Steyer and Tulsi Gabbard were on less than 1%.<\/p>\n<p>But the state party has still not declared a winner from Monday&#8217;s vote, which was derailed by technical malfunctions.<\/p>\n<p>The results represent the share of delegates needed to clinch the party nomination under America&#8217;s quirky political system. Iowa awards only 41 of the 1,991 delegates required to become the Democratic White House nominee.<\/p>\n<p>But in the popular vote count, partial results showed Mr Sanders leading with 28,220 ballots, while Mr Buttigieg was second at 27,030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES \u2014 Pete Buttigieg and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21587,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}