Pete Buttigieg declared victory in last night’s Iowa caucuses, despite the fact that the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to issue any official results.
“What a night,” the 2020 hopeful told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa. “Because tonight, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.”
The Iowa Democratic Party announced late Monday that reporting of caucus results was being delayed due to “inconsistencies.” The party has yet to issue any official results, much to the frustration of, well, pretty much everyone.
Except for Mayor Pete.
“We are going on to New Hampshire victorious!” Buttigieg told last night’s crowd.
He also heralded his big win on Twitter, tweeting: “Iowa, you have shocked the nation. By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious. #IowaCaucuses”
Iowa, you have shocked the nation.
By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious. #IowaCaucuses
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 4, 2020
Buttigieg told CNN this morning that his campaign’s internal data is what led him to declare victory before any official results were announced.
“Like everybody else, probably more than anybody else, I’m impatient to get the official count, but we’ve also seen the reporting from our own precinct organization,” he explained. “In fact, we’ve made it public from over 1,200 precinct locations and what we saw is extraordinary.”
“For a campaign that a year ago, I think a lot of people were questioning what right we even had to do this and to make the attempt. And so it’s clearly a victory for us.”
The response to Buttigieg’s premature declaration is being met with mixed reactions on Twitter…
Did Pete Buttigieg just claim victory in Iowa when the results haven’t been announced yet?
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 4, 2020
This @PeteButtigieg is a thing of beauty. It’s inclusive, inspiring, very, very strong. He sounds downright presidential. It’s a damn shame the Iowa Caucus Debacle robbed him from the chance of giving it while most Americans were still awake.
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) February 4, 2020
Bunch of people in my comments claiming that I’m spreading “conspiracy theories…”
Where?
Only conspiracy theory I see is that Pete won in Iowa lmao
— Cam Kasky (@cameron_kasky) February 4, 2020
Tonight, an openly-LGBTQ presidential candidate won a delegate in the Iowa Caucus for the first time in our country’s history. Regardless of who you support, that’s a moment to acknowledge and celebrate. It makes me proud. Well done to Pete Buttigieg’s team.
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) February 4, 2020
Pete Buttigieg is claiming victory with literally 0% of the vote in, trying to fix the Iowa Caucus like it was bread prices.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 4, 2020
.@PeteButtigieg‘s campaign got robbed tonight, but he still made history. #IowaCaucuses @CNN @AC360 #CNNElection #IACaucus #Iowa pic.twitter.com/HTpwPwU2nz
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) February 4, 2020
Let’s be clear:
Pete Buttigieg did NOT win Iowa.#IowaCaucuses
— Ryan Knight 🏳️🌈 🗽 (@ProudResister) February 4, 2020
Pete Buttigieg wins Iowa according to Pete Buttigieg! I get how this works. It’s kind of fun once the horror wears off.
— francesca fiorentini (@franifio) February 4, 2020
Pete Buttigieg has declared victory in Iowa, without knowing the results.
Amy Klobuchar basically gave a victory speech, when she probably finished fifth.
It’s all pretty weird.
Then again, Bernie Sanders lost Iowa in 2016 and then declared it a tie, so anything goes.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) February 4, 2020
No word yet on when the official results might be announced.
Related: No matter Iowa’s outcome, Pete Buttigieg ran a historic presidential campaign
Hussain-TheCanadian
Bernie won last night, the trajectory of the results were showing Bernie as number 1, followed by Pete and Elizabeth. Poor Joe is done, his campaign is over.
Its extremely tempting to proclaim that what we witnessed last night is an attempted coup by the democratic establishment against Bernie, only time will tell.
Hdtex
BULLSHIT.
Bernies’ won NOTHING.
truthseeker
As of 10pm, the NY Times live results had Bernie way ahead. Then suddenly there was a “”glitch”” with the app (funded by the Mayor Pete campaign).
24 hours later Pete is declared the winner LOL. Bernie won’t do anything though, he has no backbone
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Hussain, consider this a preamble for whats to come. We are never going to know who won last night and no matter where the next primaries are held not one outcome will be believed by me. As a country, we are finished. The Russians did not need nuclear weapons to defeat us. Our own greed and ignorance was all that was needed. We surpassed the breaking point in 2000 when Bush was allowed to steal that election. The state that has a glitch in its counting by chance happens to be the same state that your brother is governor of? This evening I changed the channel to National Geographic when the evening news came on because its all entertainment, not news. From the computer generated graphic introducing Nora O’Donnell to the so called feel-good last story they, the networks, all force down the throats of the ignorant. Seriously, I can’t blame any gay man for not being able to see clearly anymore. Thats the way it was planned and the plan worked to a T. Once upon a time we would have declared war on any country that would have even thought of taking advantage of us let alone actually doing it but we became so ignorant its hard to blame Russia for doing just that, taking advantage of our ignorance.
truthseeker
They won’t let me post Twitter links so I’ll try this again
Also, check out how they make sure Mayor Cheat randomly wins a coin toss to get Bernie’s delegates. Google “Watch how Buttigieg ‘randomly’ wins this coin toss”
This is just like 2016 all over again when Hillary won 8 out of 8 coin tosses against Bernie in a row.
graphicjack
And this, ladies in gentlemen, is why you don’t vote based on identity. He may be LGBTQ, but he’s also corrupt as hell. Also, our community is not just made up of rich white folk who drink wine in caves. His record concerning black people in South Bend is tragic, which is why he polls at 0% with blacks and he will be buried in NC. He’s an embarrassment to our community and we deserve to have queer people running in politics who are not going to sell us out the second someone waves a briefcase of money in their face. #MayorCheat
Topazme
he’s doing very bad with black voters and his track record seems sketchy…i get he’s the first gay candidate but thats doesnt automatically guarantee you a vote…you have gotta do the work too and i dont see him making amends or working to fix his faults…infact situation has become worse since his news about black vote….i am not going to condemn black people in our country to worse conditions because i want a gay president,…and lets not forget its not the democrates we need to worry about,we need to worry about moderates,obama voters who switched to trump….nominating a gay person who just doesnt do the work and relies on his identity might not be enough
cliche guevara
Fred Krager was the first openly gay person to run for president and that was in 2012.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@Topazme…”obama voters who switched to trump.”
Indeed they did. Trump at least hinted that what happened to many blacks in the war on drugs was criminal but please, read on. There is more involved with that topic. When Obama decided to commute Chelsea Mannings sentence I just knew the last thing he would do on the day he left office was commute the sentence of millions of people (the majority of them black) who were convicted of drug crimes but were non-violent offenders. He didn’t. He crawled his rear end into that limo with Trump without a care in the world for those poor souls, many of them still paying the price of a minor mistake such as having $20 worth of crack on them. To tell you the gods honest truth its almost as though he gave them the middle finger and had Al Sharpton (the one who had tremendous tax problems that vanished like a fart to the wind) reign in the local reverends who did take note of what they had good reason he wasn’t going to do.
Now there is a man in the democratic field worth BILLIONS of dollars and has said he didn’t care how much it took he was staying in the race and seeing it to the end. That man, Michael Bloomberg, stayed in office for twelve years (four more than was allowed but he circumvented the rules). Black males suffered more basic rights abuses by the NYPD under his rule than the mafioso-like Giuliani when you calculate all the facts. Bloomberg refused to award the vindicated Central Park Five one dime even though the actual rapist not only admitted he had done it and proved it by taken they authorities to the very spot he raped her and even told them the position she was laying in when he left her laying there but also numerous former police officials admitted they coerced the confessions out of each one of those teenage boys. Not one dime did they receive under him nor a faint hint of an apology. And now he expects us in the south to excuse HIS views on gun ownership? What do you think he is going to do to OUR way of life? When chaos (Trump) has become the order of the day what comes along next is a dictator, a man who believe his word is supreme and will not tolerate dissent. Christine Quinn, the so called heroic council member in NYC, was reduced to a pathetic butt kisser and anyone with two eyes and a brain wouldn’t argue that fact. Bloomberg was elected under the GOP banner. Which side of the fence is he on? For him there can’t be any middle ground and I do not see him as a democrat. You guys have NO idea just how scary what we are seeing is. Call me an old loudmouthed southern queen all you desire but I am listening closely for any of you to prove me a lie about what I just said. As I said, I am not voting in any more elections because this fiasco proves there is no point in voting anymore regardless of party affiliation. Beware of troubled times and the need for leadership. It happened before and it IS happening again.
TheDefiler
No worse than the dude with the self-same schtick from four years ago who can’t wait to learn how it sold yesterday.
Taiyoken
Fred Krager has shtick from four years ago? I hadn’t even heard of him.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Ok, I know (at the time of my post) that there are only eight comments posted but I ask all of you this; doesn’t SOMETHING sound wrong with what happened? Do ANY of you have an alarm bell that rings when you know you are being B/S’d? Mere hours (more or less) after a Manchurian Candidate gets acquitted of blatantly violating the Constitution (and don’t forget that sarcastic pic of Giulliani looking like a stereotypical mafioso with a cigar in his mouth giving the middle finger to our Constitution all over the internet afterward) we get this mess? If the Russians interfered in 2016 why wouldn’t they or some other group not do the same to the very people who attempted to restore sanity to our election system? I’m not voting in November. I am not wasting my time because to factors are present that prove it’ll be just that, a waste of time. First off is the education of our populace. No one questions anything anymore but yet we all have our ears glued to hear controversy. Secondly, the dems (whom I had hoped to vote for since the GOP insists on keeping Trump) can’t find a candidate worthy of holding the presidency any more than the POS that already sits in the Oval Office. People, we are already dead. We’re just too stupid to just bury ourselves.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Anyone who has not read “manufacturing consent” by Noam chomsky needs to do so pronto, the book was made into a documentary and its available on YouTube.
It breaks down how the large media conglomerates create public opinion, how they lie, cheat, bribe, and attempt to use their spooks to propagandize the public into what ever will makes them an extra dime.
The book is a must read.
woodroad34
I hope this isn’t his Howard Dean “yeeeeaaaaagggh!” moment.