The first-in-the-nation nominating contest suffered an embarrassing stumble Monday night when technical problems forced the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) to delay the announcement of the results of the Iowa caucuses. A day after the caucuses, no winner has yet been announced, although on Tuesday morning, the state party said that the majority of the results would be released at 5 p.m. ET. As for the rest of the results, spokesperson Mandy McClure said that “we will continue to release results as we are able to.”
The IDP said Tuesday that it has identified a problem in the app it used to report results in Monday night’s caucus.
The party is blaming a coding issue in its reporting system. It said that the app recorded the data correctly, but was only reporting out partial data. But the party claims that the flaw did not affect the ability of the precinct chairs to report their data accurately. And it also said that there’s no sign that hacking played a role in the problem with the app.
At this point, the party plans and hopes to release the results of the caucuses later today.
The major candidates took the stages at their watch parties starting around 11 p.m. ET and began moving on to New Hampshire, which holds the nation’s first primary next week.
Republicans, meanwhile, gloated on social media over the chaos. President Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale called it the “sloppiest train wreck in history.”
