Posted on 03/29/2018 11:32:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Democratic primary in Iowa’s 3rd District looks quite different Thursday morning. One of the top candidates dropped out of the race Wednesday night over an issue with signatures required to secure a spot on the ballot, potentially shaking up the contest.
With businesswoman Theresa Greenfield ending her campaign, the Democratic field of candidates to take on two-term Republican incumbent David Young is down to three. At one point, seven contenders were running or considering jumping in.
“I think it’s a very different situation this morning,” one Iowa Democratic consultant said Thursday of the primary. “And my guess is all their campaigns are changing their strategy because most people were preparing to go to convention.”
In Iowa, if a candidate does not garner 35 percent of the vote in the June 5 primary, the nominee would be decided at a party convention. That means candidates also have to court delegates in preparation for that possibility, while also running a primary campaign. With fewer candidates to split the primary vote, the convention becomes less of a possibility.
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The question is, where do Iowa Dimocrats hold their convention, now that it’s so very hard to find a phone booth?
Blackmailed out of the race by her fellow democrats?
That sounds raciss.
Blackmailed
White-Privilege mailed ?
Nah. It just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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