Ted Cruz bests Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton edges out Bernie Sanders
:US Senator Ted Cruz soundly defeated billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's
Republican nominating contest on Monday February 01,2016, upending the party's
presidential race and creating a three-way competition with
establishment candidate Senator Marco Rubio.
Ted Cruz, a conservative lawmaker from Texas, won the first state Republican
contest in the 2016 race with 28% of the vote compared with 24% for
businessman Trump. Rubio, a US senator from Florida, came in third with
23%, making a stronger-than-expected finish
On the Democratic side, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton had won by a razor-thin margin against US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history
With Democrat Clinton prevailing by only four delegates, according to
party figures, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, declared
the result a "virtual tie". "Hillary Clinton has won the Iowa Caucus,"
Matt Paul, the Iowa state director for Clinton said in a statement
released in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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