Pete Buttigieg has been joined on the campaign trailer by his husband Chasten

Pete Buttigieg bounced into New Hampshire yesterday with a frenzy of campaign rallies after indications that the little-known outsider had far exceeded expectations in Iowa.

Amid the confusion of the caucuses, Mr Buttigieg’s team cited evidence from some of Iowa’s more than a thousand voting precincts showing him jostling for first place. Even Bernie Sanders’s hastily released data showed Mr Buttigieg in a strong second place and Elizabeth Warren claimed that all three of them were vying for the top spot.

“I’m so glad to be with you this morning,” Mr Buttigieg told an energetic crowd of more than 100 people at the Rex Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city. “I think it’s morning. We took a little nap somewhere in between sundown and