The people down. 1139 cruz focused his Campaign Strategy on connecting with iowans. He visited all of iowas 99 counties where he held events and answered questions from voters. It was that personal approach that first caught the eye of now cruz volunteer richard heizer. hes true to his word, very unique in politics, so thats the reason were here, first time weve ever done this, never done this for any candidate. heizer came up from texas and joined the 12thousand other volunteers in iowa who did everything from make calls to going door to door. Heizer credits cruzs ground game as the reason he won. he is very personable as well and he will stand up and answer the questions of the people, those people that send out a piece of literature or Something Else you cant face them and ted will face up to them. and cruz recognized the success his campaign has by their boots on the ground approach. 628 tonight is victory for the grassroots, tonight is a victory across iowa and all across this gre
With 100 of prescenes reporting Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner by the thinnest of margins. 2 . But this win is not without controversy. Delegates in some prescenes were awarded by the toss of a coin. This happens in ames and a few other communities. The coin toss is allowed under democratic rules. The Sanders Campaign is asking the at i would Democratic Party to check the numbers. Anchor cynthia has more. It came down to one precinct number, 42. Votes were missing until this morning which mcclinton was not officially declared the winner until noon. They werent swinging clubs last night. People were lined up for at least an hour. 327 people showed up in a room meant for 92. Very chaotic and disorganized. Which turn this into chaos. But didnt have results from the precinct chair. That is what we like to see. Reporter the precinct chair dropped off the paperwork this morning considering the virtual ties she made sure every last vote was counted before closing it. Sanders cam
The storm barely missed a busy more than 350 thousand iowans showed up to make their president ial picks. About 180 thousand of them were republicans. Leading to a ted cruz win. Cruz won with 28 percent of the votes followed by donald trump, with 24. Marco rubio came in third, with 23 percent. Nearly 10 thousand fewer democrats participated in the tight race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They are separated by just tenths of a percentage. Many found those numbers as happy with them. Channel 13s jannay towne joins us to explain why that is. The results were the closet in Iowa Democratic caucus history. With the slimmest of margins between first and second place. One campaign wants to rule out any margin of error. Nats coin toss in a handful of precincts, the contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came down to a coin toss. Hillary clinton well, as you Bernie Sanders came down to a coin toss. Hillary clinton well, as you recall, my luck was not that good last time
Now to the political blizzard. When we went off the air after 11last night. The democratic race was still too close to call. It wasnt until 230 in the morning that the state Party Clinton the winner. She finished in front of senator Bernie Sanders by 2tenths of a point. The closest Democratic Caucus in iowa history. The party did not release raw vote totals. And the Sanders Campaign thinks thats because they dont have them. Party leaders had to track down precinct chairs overnight in order to get their final numbers. In many cases they were reported by delegate percentage. Not vote totals. Because of the close race. The Sanders Campaign has asked the Iowa Democratic party to check its numbers. 14 46 24 you have numbers that are reportedwhether its through an app or over the phone and also people at each location thats putting it down on paper. Were all human, we make mistakes state Party Leaders say the results have already been verified. And that staffers with the clinton and Sanders
So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. [ echoing ] just sayin. Another round. Drivers could face a second day of slick roads this morning. Well tell you why the snow wont be what most iowans are worrying about. Blowing snow. Yesterday, if we bring out large numbers of people, we are going to win next tuesday next contest. All eyes are moving away from iowa to new hampshire. How much sanders leads clinton going next contest. All eyes are moving away from iowa to new hampshire. How much sanders leads clinton going into the tuesdays primary. Its wednesday february 3rd, today first on 13. The snow will be coming to an end soon. But drivers will have some slick roads to deal with this morning as they head out. And the weather isnt just affecting the roads. High winds have knocked out power in the northern part of the metro. Heres a live look at the midamericans outages. It looks