Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz victorious in Iowa caucuses

Guy King
Staff Writer

Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz both won by narrow margins in their bids to become their respective party’s presidential nominees at the Iowa caucuses.

Iowa is the first state in America to caucus in the 2016 presidential election bid.

Many citizens have eagerly awaited this event to see what chances their candidate of choice has at becoming the next President of the United States.

Celebrity businessman, Donald Trump seemed to be the wild card candidate with the idea of taking America back.

The 74-year-old Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, has also gained much momentum from the millennial generation with his socialist viewpoints on a political revolution.

However, when the votes were counted, neither of two took the top spots from Clinton and Cruz.

After her 2008 loss to current President Barack Obama, Clinton is vying once again for the democratic nomination.

Courtney Thomas, a sophomore bio-medical engineering major from Indianapolis, Ind. said, “I think Bernie Sanders should be our next president because he wants to make college tuition free for everyone. That is most important to me, because college is really expensive.”

Deshadrian Hopkins is not sure who she wants to win the election but is clear on whom she feels should not.

“I would like anyone but Donald Trump to win for president,” said Hopkins, a junior speech communications major from Jackson, Miss.

Although the polls predicted that Trump would win the Iowa Republican caucus and that Sanders would take the Iowa Democratic caucus, those predictions were wrong.

Senator Cruz was victorious taking 28 percent of the Republican votes in Iowa; while Trump gained 24 percent.

In the Democratic caucus, Hillary Clinton became the first female to win the Iowa caucus beating Sanders with 49.9 percent of the vote. Sanders came in a close second with 49.6 percent.

The candidates are now campaigning to take on New Hampshire, where the polls are predicting Sanders and Rubio will win. But as shown in Iowa, the polls are not always accurate.