“We should all be disappointed in the inability of the party to come up with timely results,' Sanders said on Tuesday
Up in the air. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images For most of Tuesday morning, no one knew anything, and Bernie Sanders was nowhere to be seen. Ten, then 12, then 15 hours after the Iowa caucus results were initially expected, the senator was still in Des Moines, avoiding cameras and waiting for some answers on what exactly happened Monday night.
If the tide wasn’t going to turn on its own, they’d have to turn it themselves, and Sanders would have to be on the ground in New Hampshire when the results landed. So there he was on his chartered campaign plane on the Des Moines tarmac, finally, shortly after noon. Flanked by his wife and the top echelon of his campaign team, he approached a small group of reporters jammed halfway down the narrow central aisle.
Less than two hours after Sanders touched down in New Hampshire, the party finally released some initial results: Buttigieg was ahead but barely, and Sanders had — as his team had long hinted would happen — won the first alignment. Still, the night was young, and nearly 40 percent of precincts had yet to be counted. “We want to thank the people of Iowa,” Weaver said in a statement.
All day long, Sanders aides had been popping up around Des Moines expressing confidence but refusing to say much of substance on the record, instead waiting for the big evening moment when they thought he’d get to celebrate. In the press filing center at Sanders’s Caucus Night party, deputy campaign manager Ari Rabin-Havt walked in around the time caucus sites opened and was immediately swarmed by reporters. He didn’t want to talk about what Sanders was doing or how he was feeling.
Sanders supporters wait for results to come in at his caucus night watch party in Des Moines, Iowa. Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images The mood of the room shifted palpably after the campaigns had been told there were real problems with the caucus results and Klobuchar jumped at the opportunity to speak first, before east coasters went to sleep.
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