Joe Biden: ‘We Took a Gut Punch in Iowa’

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden returns a supporter's phone after talking to her relative during a campaign event at the Central Iowa Fairgrounds in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Jan. 26, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Former Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged that his campaign suffered a setback following the partial release of the Iowa caucus results.

“I’m not going to sugarcoat it: We took a gut punch in Iowa,” Biden, a 2020 Democratic candidate for president, told supporters at a rally in New Hampshire on Feb. 5. “The whole process took a gut punch. But look, this isn’t the first time in my life I’ve been knocked down.”