abcde Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Anticipation quickly turns to apprehension in Iowa GETTY IMAGES A cleaner washed the street ‘Inconsistencies’ cited as technical issues keep campaigns, voters waiting with a high-pressure water gun Monday in Wuhan, By Liz Goodwin Hubei province, China. GLOBE STAFF DES MOINES — Results for the crucial Iowa caucuses were delayed Monday night, upset- Virus ting the rhythm of a much- watched election night and threatening to shake faith in spreads the results. Democratic candidates and their supporters waited impa- tiently for the results, yet the business reported technical difficulties left them in limbo early Tues- day morning. Campaign staff- ers were summoned to discuss anxiety the issue as the Iowa Demo- cratic Party said it was conduct- ing unspecified “quality Mass. firms with checks” on the results. “We found inconsistencies extensive ties to in the reporting of three sets of results,” the Iowa Democratic China are wary Party said. “The underlying da- ta and paper trail is sound and By Larry Edelman will simply take time to further GLOBE STAFF report the result.” The coronavirus that has Several observers blamed a sparked panic across the world new app created for caucus or- since emerging in central China at ganizers to report results this the end of December has added an year. Organizers had problems element to businesses that their trying to download and test it. executives absolutely hate — un- Candidates’ supporters be- certainty. gan gathering in hotel lobbies JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF around Des Moines for what º China opens hospital in bid It was less of an arm-twisting and more of a neighborly chat as Pete Buttigieg supporters tried to sway others at they hoped would be victory to contain fast-spreading a Des Moines caucus site. For complete Iowa results, go to bostonglobe.com. parties after caucusing Monday virus. A3 evening, nervously awaiting re- sults that were not coming in. The parallel they might draw With candidates anxious to jet from — the 2003 SARS crisis — de- On the ground, a familiar ritual gets to New Hampshire for next livered a relatively small blow, cut- week’s primary, they delivered ting economic growth by an esti- caucus night speeches without mated 0.1 percent. But the world any results to mention. That is a different place today, giving new rules and welcomes new players meant they all could claim they many executives reason to worry had a good night. that this epidemic could be worse. By Laura Krantz Senator Amy Klobuchar ad- China has gone from the sixth- and Jazmine Ulloa dressed her supporters despite largest economy at the start of this GLOBE STAFF the delay, saying she had beat century to second largest. And AMES, Iowa — Wearing a pink light-up expectations and was heading Massachusetts employers — from beanie, Samantha Goodale was firmly in the to New Hampshire. high-tech manufacturers to high- corner of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at “You probably heard we end hotels to institutions of high- her caucus in an elementary school gym here don’t know the results,” she er education — are more tightly on Monday night, until she left to use the said. “We know there’s delays linked to China’s than ever. bathroom. but we know one thing: We are That has raised the stakes and When Goodale, 35, came back, she asked a punching above our weight.” VIRUS, Page A4 guy named Jim to borrow a pen. As she used Shortly afterward, former it, Jim pitched her on Massachusetts Senator vice president Joe Biden told Elizabeth Warren. And she stayed in Warren’s his backers,“Looks like it’s go- corner, just because it felt right. ing to be a long night but I’m In the news “I don’t know,” she said. “I still think the feeling good.’’ And Senator Eliz- same things I did.” abeth Warren told her support- Like any good caucus — the personal and ers, “It is too close to call so I’m unpredictable fashion of voting that Iowans just going to tell you what I do use to make their first-in-the nation presiden- know," adding she planned to JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF tial choices — there were last-minute switches defeat Trump. here in this college town north of Des Moines. And there was last-minute persuasion as Senator Elizabeth Vermont Senator Bernie There were also surprising realignments, Iowans here and at nearly 1,700 sites across Warren spoke at Sanders said he was confident as when half the supporters of former vice the state gathered in school gymnasiums, Roosevelt High School in he performed well. A lost sol president Joe Biden joined the corner of for- community centers, and VFW halls. After Des Moines. The state “I’ve a strong feeling at mer South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, months of political commercials on their tele- Democratic Party will IOWA, Page A5 Tuesday: Mild, cloudy. sparking cheers from the Buttigieg crowd and visions and canvassers on their doorsteps, release first- and second- High 44-49, low 35-40. leaving Biden below the 15 percent threshold they were ready to finally give the country its choice vote totals, in Wednesday: Possible snow late. needed to earn state delegates in the first first official message about which candidate addition to the delegates Can’t count on it round. SCENE, Page A6 won by each candidate. High tide: 6:38, 7:18. On the night when Democrats were asked to deliver a defini- Sunrise: 6:55. Sunset: 5:01 tive result, the precinct caucus Comics and weather, C9-10. system ground to a halt. A6. Obituaries, D8. N.H. braces for frantic week of campaigning Bloomberg’s path NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL: Which By James Pindell impeachment trial, the State of the Union, The former New York City Democratic primary candidate GLOBE STAFF a Democratic presidential debate, and a ral- mayor campaigned far from Witnesses provided two stark- would you vote for or lean Welcome to the most magical eight days ly with President Trump just hours before Iowa as part of his strategy to toward at this point? Full results A7 ly different accounts of the in American politics — the winter week be- polls open. focus on delegate-rich states care Justina Pelletier received tween the Iowa caucuses and the first-in- “I cannot recall any primary like this that respond better to a strat- Bernie Sanders 24% at Boston Children’s Hospital the-nation New Hampshire primary where one. It is just so unprecedented on so many egy centered on television ad- as the trial over her family’s Joe Biden 18% presidential nominees are often made and levels,” said New Hampshire Democratic vertisements. A5. malpractice suit entered its White House aspirations crushed. Party Chairman Raymond Buckley, who is Targeting Trump third week. B1. Elizabeth Warren 13% This year will be even more intense than expecting record turnout. Joe Walsh, a former represen- usual with the largest field of Democratic It will be a dizzying schedule for candi- Pete Buttigieg 11% tative, tries to make his case East Boston community groups presidential candidates ever and a contest dates and voters, roughly half of whom tell in one-on-one conversations sought to slow down the per- Amy Klobuchar 6% more unsettled than any in recent memory. pollsters they are still making up their with Republicans. A7. mitting process for the rede- Add to that a jam-packed news cycle: an AHEAD, Page A7 velopment of Suffolk Downs. D1. “Jeep’’ Jones died. The youth activist and redevelopment au- thority official was Boston’s Final impeachment arguments pitched to voters first Black deputy mayor. B1. By Nicholas Fandos and Catie Edmondson State of the Union “a man without character or ethical compass,” Schiff NEW YORK TIMES For breaking news, updated A peek behind the process for the rare time Donald insisted it was time for members of Trump’s party to stories, and more, visit our website: WASHINGTON — In their final appeals in Presi- Trump consents to acting traditionally presidential. A2. choose between normalizing corruption or removing BostonGlobe.com dent Trump’s impeachment trial, House Democrats it. “Truth matters to you. Right matters to you,” Schiff argued on Monday that he had corrupted the presi- said, making a case aimed at Republicans. “You are dency and would continue to put American interests expected to change the outcome of the final vote on decent. He is not who you are.” VOL. 297, NO. 35 at risk if the Senate failed to remove him from office. Wednesday, when the Senate is all but certain to ac- Casting the managers’ case as shoddily construct- * Trump’s defenders, denouncing the case against him, quit the president, largely along party lines. ed, the president’s defense team issued a scathing in- Suggested retail price said he had done nothing wrong and should be The Democratic managers, led by Representative dictment of the Democrats’ argument, contending $3.00 judged by voters. Adam B. Schiff of California, said Trump had tried to that removing Trump would subvert the will of the Making their closing arguments, the House im- rig the 2020 election in his favor — by withholding electorate and fundamentally alter the functioning of peachment managers and the president’s lawyers in- military aid from Ukraine in an effort to pressure the the separation of powers. Their final word sounded voked history and the 2020 campaign as Democrats country to investigate his political rivals — and had as much like a campaign pitch as a legal defense. and Republicans prepared to take the fight over put a blot on the presidency that would stain those “This is an effort to overturn the results of one Trump’s fate to the broader public arena.