{"id":60888,"date":"2020-02-05T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60888"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T03:31:28","slug":"us-im-the-winner-says-pres-trump-in-republican-party-caucases-as-democrat-sees-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60888","title":{"rendered":"US: &#8216;I&#8217;m the winner&#8217; says Pres Trump in Republican party caucases as Democrat sees chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/I-m-the-winner-says-Trump-amid-Democrat-chaos-856723?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/633\/63310104.295.jpg\" alt=\"US President, Donald Trump\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>US President, Donald Trump<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DES MOINES (Iowa, US), Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Chaos in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, where contest results have been delayed by technical glitches, have been seized upon by Pres Donald Trump as a victory.<br><br>The outcome of the first stage in the Democrat race to pick a candidate for November&#8217;s presidential election was left unsettled on Tuesday morning.<br><br>Democratic officials admitted that a &#8220;coding error&#8221; in the app used to report results was to blame.<br><br>Trump easily won the Republican contest.<br><br>The debacle on the Democrat side, on the other hand, was &#8220;an unmitigated disaster,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;The only person that can claim a very big victory in Iowa last night is &#8216;Trump'&#8221;.<br><br>Votes for the Democratic contest will be tabulated by hand and reported later, officials said.<br><br>However, the indeterminate result on the night has created scepticism of the caucus process and reignited questions over whether Iowa &#8211; a rural, white state not representative of the US electorate as a whole &#8211; should continue to be the place to hold the first primary contest.<br><br>Trump dismissed the suggestion. &#8220;As long as I am President, Iowa will stay where it is. Important tradition!&#8221; he tweeted.<br><br>Democrats hoping to take him on in this year&#8217;s election have set their sights forward.<br><br>Many have already landed in New Hampshire, where the next primary contest is due to be held on Tuesday, Feb 11.<strong>\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0NNN-AGENCIES<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President, Donald Trump DES MOINES (Iowa, US), Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Chaos in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, where contest results have been delayed by technical glitches, have been seized upon by Pres Donald Trump as a victory. The outcome of the first stage in the Democrat race to pick a candidate for November&#8217;s presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}