MANCHESTER, N.H. — Warren declared that the Iowa results are “too close to call” early Tuesday morning after arriving here on her plane from Des Moines.
She projected confidence that regardless of the ultimate results from Iowa, her campaign will continue. “This is an organization that is built for the long haul,” Warren said, standing on the tarmac at the private terminal for Manchester International Airport.
She added that her Iowa organizers are already fanning out around the rest of the country.
When Warren left Iowa, the state party had said it planned to release results from the first-in-the-nation caucuses later Tuesday. And by the time she landed, she said she knew little new information.
She left from the rear of her plane and gave a brief comment to photographers and reporters who traveled with her from Iowa. Her plane left Des Moines around 1 a.m. Central time and landed around 4 a.m. Eastern time in Manchester.
She will be appearing in Keene, N.H., later Tuesday for a town hall meeting.
Warren’s top aides indicated via posts on social media that they are upset with the disorganization in Iowa, but they were more restrained than some of the other campaigns, reflecting a push to position her as a unity candidate capable of bringing the party together.
“The process broke down; systematically and individually in many precincts, both people and technology failed,” said chief strategist Joe Rospars on Twitter.
He directed his ire at other campaigns that have been suggesting that they won the state, rather than at the Iowa Democratic Party. “Any campaign saying they won or putting out incomplete numbers is contributing to the chaos and misinformation,” Rospars said.
Still, he described the results as “a very close race” among Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg. “Biden came a distant fourth,” Rospars wrote.
The Warren campaign staff is describing the results based on precinct-by-precinct data gathered by their organization in most places in the state, Roger Lau, Warren’s campaign manager, said in a briefing in Des Moines. “We were competitive everywhere,” Lau said. “We have high confidence that it’s close.”
