The presidential candidate proclaimed a win in Iowa before the state Democratic Party released results.
He spent Tuesday morning hedging.
“By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious,” he told supporters in a soaring late-night speech. “Tonight, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.” Pete Buttigieg on claiming victory in Iowa despite vote count chaos:"We're going to hear the official results and again that can't come soon enough, but what we saw and what our precinct information revealed ... is that we have the momentum" https://t.co/3NlbBmeSMT pic.twitter.com/mXgSrTPxiFHours later, Buttigieg tapped the brakes in an interview with CNN’s John Berman.
Buttigieg answered by reframing “victory” as an “extraordinary” show of support from “rural areas, suburban areas and urban areas,” based on the campaign’s internal reporting.
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