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Well, the Democrats have finally begun the process of choosing a candidate to challenge President Trump in November the first stage the Iowa caucuses has been a fiasco with results delayed more than 24 hours with about 71 percent.

Now of the vote and I were declared the youngest candidate 34-year-old Peabody Josh is leading closely followed by the left-winter barrage edge is the first self-identified gay candidate to try and win the presidency,

He described the results as an astonishing victory.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE:

We don't know all of the numbers but we know this much a campaign that started a year ago with four staff members,

No name recognition no money just a big idea as the campaign that some said should have no the business even making this attempt has taken its place at the front of this race to replace the current president with a better vision.

For the future well the former US Vice President Joe Biden was considered by many to be the front-runner he is trailing and fourth place speaking in New Hampshire he joked about the delay and results from Iowa.

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT:

You know 24 hours later, They're still trying to figure out what the heck happened in Iowa at this rate New Hampshire might get the first vote after all so it's a big night for the Democrats and for Republicans let's take you to Washington,

And join our correspondent there Ben righten first President Trump's speech and often foreshadows what's going to be the themes for the year in terms of his campaign to retain the presidency if so he's betting on the economy yeah,

He certainly is I mean there is a buoyancy in the American economy, people are the feeling I think flashier than they have for quite a while,

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE:

The unemployment rate is it a 50-year low, not an all-time low as I think President Trump claimed in his speech but there is definitely optimism around the US.

Economy that he absolutely intends to try and capitalize on and ride into the White House for a second term was also interesting.

I thought in his speech that there were messages targeted at African-Americans Hispanics I think he's trying in a way to broaden his base little and he needs to if he's going to guarantee to get another term he can't just rely on the base that he had back in 2016.

I mean his approval ratings have never got beyond about 50% I think he needs to broaden that coalition in the next nine months to be confident of being reelected in November but it was very confident,

And typically bombastic Donald Trump performance did feel more like a political rally than a State of the Union address and it was surreal because sitting there in front of him where you know ranks of Democratsincluding the house managers,

Who've been trying to turf him out of office in the case they're prosecuting in the Senate a case that wraps up in the next few hours with what everybody assumes will be Donald Trump being acquitted,

So it was very strange in terms of the timing the tone was startlingly toxic even for Washington yeah what is being made of those notable breaches of decorum then well we'll sit we'll see is Washington wakes up I think Nancy Pelosi's actions aggravated and angered a lot of Republicans.

I think many Democrats are furious the contempt that they would say, President Trump showed to Nancy Pelosi at the beginning where he didn't shake her hand I mean the two have not had a very good relationship for a long time and I think those two bits of the theater just emphasized how polarized and bitter,

And divided American politics is and you know you see it in Capitol Hill you see it far beyond Washington as well so briefly,

Bento who will take on President Trump in November is there some surprise that people gestured so well in Iowa I think there is and there were certainly some momentum with him now,

And people it was very difficult of contradictory things on the eve of this caucus and of course, it was, in the end, chaotic and we don't fully know how the eventual results will tabulate and shakedown,

But people to church clearly did well Bernie Sanders did relatively well we could say that Joe Biden did badly and I think he now has got some real ground to make up through New Hampshire, South Carolina's his big bet where there is a big African-American of democratic vote down,

There he needs to make some ground up now if he's not going to fall by the wayside fairly on in this in this contest but it's you know it's so early to say who's going to emerge as the front-runner but people to the church clearly I think is that a very a good couple of days Ben good to see you thanks so much.