Caucus in Iowa: Cruz defeated Trump, while Clinton keeps hitting

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Texas Conservative Senator Ted Cruz defeated Donald Trump at the Republican Caucus in Iowa. According to the data CNN, Cruz received 28% of the vote, Trump, in turn, 24%. Marco Rubio, a senator from the state of Florida, showed an unexpectedly good result and took third place, gaining 23% of the popular vote.

The Democrats still have Hillary Clinton as the leader, but she did not call herself a winner, since the results differ only by a fraction of a percent.

According to the results of the internal party meeting in Iowa, the former US Secretary of State received the support of 49,8% of voters, the independent senator from Vermont - 49,6%.

Empty seats in the corner of support for Martin O'Melli. Photo: The New York Times

The third Democratic candidate, Martin O'Malley, dropped out of the race, gaining less than 1% of the vote. Also Republican Michael Huckabee left the race. He wrote about his decision in Twitter.

Commenting on the voting results, Ted Cruz saidthat they proved one thing - the Republican presidential candidate will be chosen not by the media, not by the Washington establishment and not by lobbyists, but by the American people themselves.

“Iowa has made it clear that the Republican nominee and the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media or the Washington establishment,” Cruz said.

After announcing the preliminary results, Trump congratulated Cruise on his victory, stating that he is proud of second place, and promised to become a leader in the upcoming inner-party elections in the state of New Hampshire, where he is ahead of Cruise by 28 points.

Marco Rubio said that he is the candidate who is able to unite the split Republican Party, writes Air force.

Speaking to voters, Bernie Sanders stressed that voters' disillusionment with the political system reached such proportions that it crossed party boundaries during the 2016 campaign of the year.

“The time of establishment policy and establishment economics has passed,” said Sanders, who called the results of the democratic race “almost a draw.”

Speaking to her supporters, Clinton said that she "sighed with great relief." At the same time, she refrained from announcing her victory, stressing that she was ready to move forward in "real competition of ideas."

Election officials say the results are too close to be final, writes Voice of America.

Caucus - This is a new stage of the election campaign, the meeting of members of the Republican and Democratic parties. The main goal: to find out how many delegates from the Democrats and Republicans in the state will support this or that candidate.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier, party meetings of Republicans and Democrats will last several months. 12 states will vote simultaneously on March 1 on Super Tuesday. The last vote will take place on June 14 in the District of Columbia.

8 November 2016, the Americans will elect the president of the United States.

What will happen next

February 1 - caucuses of the Democratic and Republican parties in Iowa.

February 9 - the primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties in the state of New Hampshire.

March 1 is a “super Tuesday” when the 14 voters of the states in the southeast of the country will have to decide on their inner-party preferences.

June 14 - Final meetings of Democrats and Republicans, which will be held in the District of Columbia.

18-21 July - Republicans will announce a single party candidate at a convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

July 25-28 - Democrats will announce a single party candidate at a convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

November 8 The 2016 of the year is a presidential election.