The president shared a news story that stated the outlet could not declare a winner in Iowa because of 'inconsistencies' in vote tabulations due to technical glitches.
The Iowa caucuses vote count debacle that occurred because of a technical glitch should be blamed on Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday—despite officials saying there's been no evidence of foreign interference.
The president shared an Associated Press story that stated the news outlet could not declare a winner in Iowa because of a razor-thin margin between former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders , and due to the Iowa Democratic Party saying there were"inconsistencies" in their vote tabulations that have since been corrected.
"You have to understand, we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia. Total Bulls--t. We then went through the Mueller report," Trump said, referring to former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference."They kept it going forever because they wanted to inflict political pain on somebody that had just won an election."
Since then, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, has called for a recanvass of the vote, which would entail an audit of the paper records.
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