President Donald Trump is mocking Democrats after this week's problems tallying up results from the Iowa caucuses.
His comments came Friday morning in a sarcastic tweet: "I think they should blame RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA again! If they can't count votes properly, how are they going to run U.S. HealthCare?"
Trump's tweet was in response to an Associated Press announcement on Thursday evening that the news service was "unable to declare a winner of Iowa's Democratic caucuses because of irregularities in this year's process and the tight margin between Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders."
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, edged out Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, 26.2% to 26.1%, according to the Iowa Democratic Party.
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