M bill ritter. Tonight a huge victory for ted cruz, a huge defeat for donald trump. The victory going to ted cruz thanks in large part to religious conservatives. Trump coming in second, followed closely by marco rubio. The democrats, a tight race. Still an extremely close race. Too close to call between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, less than a point separating these two. Former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley barely in the caucuses, tonight dropping out and suspending his campaign. The big news right now cruz versus trump. Dave evans is in des moines, iowa with the latest. As you mentioned this is a huge win for ted cruz this evening. The evangelical religious vote across iowa really turning out for him this evening. The polling in the last couple of days showed donald trump was gaining. He was in the lead. But this is a in iowa this evening. The other big surprise is marco rubio doing much better than expected. Hes in third place right behind donald trump. We heard a few minu
Hillary clinton, once considered the formidable frontrunner, locked in a dead heat with vermont senator Bernie Sanders. Thank you for watching nightline tonight. Marco rubio will be live on gma first thing in the morning. As always we are online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page and at abcnews. Com. An arrest and a deadly stabbing in new jersey. Weve learned tonight the young man taken in to custody has connections to new york citys mayors office. Good evening at 11 00. Im liz cho. I m bill ritter. Tonight a huge victory for ted cruz, a huge defeat for donald trump. The victory going to ted cruz thanks in large part to religious conservatives. Trump coming in second, followed closely by marco rubio. The democrats, a tight race. Still an extremely close race. Too close to call between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, less than a point separating these two. Former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley barely in the caucuses, tonight dropping out and suspending his campaign. The big news
Breaking news. Upset in iowa. Ted cruz tops donald trump in votes after a record turnout for the republican caucus. Im kristine johnson. We want to get right to those results. Marcia kramer is in now with the latest. Marsha, that could be just one of two upsets tonight. Reporter absolutely true. After months and mountains of polls, tonight marks the first measure of the candidates and the surprise of many. Donald trump was not the top vote getter in the gop. Checking the numbers on the pulled off a small upset. Winning with 28 of the vote. Trump takes second. Marco rubio was just one point behind him. Looking at the democrats, the race is too close to call. With Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders neck and neck. With 89 of the vote in, just 0. 3 separate the two. It could be a long night. Were in trouble but were going to turn it around and were going to make a get make America Great again. [ applause ] reporter donald trump talking in iowa where where voters frustrated with washington
Caucuses. Kat, the final results just coming in . Right. Just in the last hour or so. Barely, as you said, is right tween clinton and sanders. Democratic leaders describe the race as historically close. The Clinton Campaign spent nearly a year building a get up and vote mission in that state. Nbc news has declared clinton the winner. As for the senator from vermont, Bernie Sanders, he drew large crowds across iowa as he talked about beraking up big wall street banks. Were about to hear also from ted cruz, the republican winner. First, here are clinton and sanders. I am honored to stand in the long line of american reformers who make up our minds that the status quo is not good enough. I think t people of iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment. Courageous conservatives across iowa and all across this great nation. The texas senator ted cruz viesited all of iowas 99 county and courted evangelical and conservative leaders. He received 28 of the vote. And sai
Ely a factor here. Were all eyes on the result boards. Were joined live from des ines. Melissa . Reporter energized voters, razor tight races and ted cruz define the polls by just enough point to pull into first place. E republican turnout tonight was impressive by all measures with almost half of the voters show g up on the republican side being first time caucusers. According to the pundents they were expected to go for trump. The political outcider. But ted cruz had strong evangelical support. Two dormitories full of support. 2,000 volunteers on the ground here in iowa and ato sophisticated gathering operation. Donald trump perhaps now regretting his decision to skip last weeks debate or his campaign that iowa voters might be stupid for showingkeupport for ben carson. Tonight after e numbers came in, trump spoke. I was told by everybody, do not go to iowa. You could never finish even in the top ten. And i said, but i have friends in iowa. I know a lot of people in iowa. I think they