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SECOND ROUND THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE." OC: 19:03> IOWA STILL TOP OF MIND FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TONIGHT - AS THEY AWAIT THE FULL LIST OF RESULTS - WITH SOME NUMBERS OUT TONIGHT - SANDERS CLOSELY FOLLOWS PETE BUTTIGIEG - <19:21 FOR SOME REASON IN IOWA THEY'RE HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE COUNTING VOTES BUT I'M CONFIDENT HERE IN NH YOU'LL BE ABLE TO COUNT YOUR VOTES ON ELECTION NIGHT" OC: 19:35> ALSO TELLING THE CROWD - HE LOOKS FORWARD TO WINNING HERE A WEEK FROM TONIGHT. BEFORE THE FIRST IN THE NATION PRIMARY VOTE -- SANDERS WILL ALSO BE CASTING A VOTE OF HIS OWN TOMORROW IN WASHINGTON DC... <CLIP 4859, 22:17 TOMORROW, THE VOTES MAY NOT BE THERE TO IMPEACH TRUMP BUT I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT IN NOVEMBER THE VOTES WILL BE THERE TO DEFEAT DONALD TRUMP" OC: 22:32> MORE THAN 1200 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO HEAR FROM SANDERS - WHO LISTED HIS ADMINISTRATION'S PLANS ON THE FIRST DAY IF HE WERE TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY - MANY SUPPORTERS WITH THEIR MINDS MADE UP THAT HE IS THEIR CANDIDATE - AND OTHERS SAY THEY'LL BE LISTENING TO AS MANY AS THEY CAN TO MAKE A DECISION BY NEXT TUESDAY. <CLIP 4861, 10:07 SANDERS WILL HAVE TO LEAVE THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TOMORROW - HE WILL FLY TO WASHINGTON DC WHERE HE SAYS HE WILL CAST A VOTE TO IMPEACH PRESID

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Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he's frustrated that he and his fellow Democratic presidential candidates left Iowa without knowing the results of the Monday caucuses.>> Download the FREE WMUR appProblems with the caucus process and a new app that was being used to report results meant that no officials results were released Monday night. Sanders was the last major candidate to leave Iowa, where some believe he was robbed of potentially good caucus night headlines."Obviously, I am disappointed," Sanders said. "I suspect I can speak for all of the candidates, all of their supporters, and the people of Iowa that the Iowa Democratic Party has not been able to come up with timely election results."In a press conference on his plane to New Hampshire, Sanders criticized candidate Pete Buttigieg's decision to declare victory overnight."I don't know how anybody declares victory before you have the official statements of the election results, so we're not declaring victory, but what we are saying is at a time when the people of Iowa -- the people of America -- want to know what the results are, (and) they want to see some transparency, but the Iowa Democratic Party is not providing that," Sanders said.Sanders said the people of Iowa weren't served well by the process."The people of Iowa, as I've said many times, take enormously seriously their responsibility to be the first in the nation to vote," Sanders said. "I think the Democratic Party here in Iowa has been negligent in not getting us timely results."As Sanders hits the ground in the Granite State for the grind of the final week of campaigning ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary, he sounded an optimistic note. "We're going to work as hard as we can to win in New Hampshire," Sanders said. "I think we now have an excellent chance to get the Democratic nomination and defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country."Iowa Democrats released partial returns Tuesday evening, showing that Buttigieg was holding a slim lead in the delegate race over Sanders. But with only 62% of precincts reporting, an overall winner was still undetermined.Sanders will leave the campaign trail on Wednesday to fly to Washington, D.C. where he said he will cast a vote to impeach President Donald Trump.