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Iowa Democratic vote-reporting meltdown hands opening to Trump
CNN ^ | Feb 4, 2020 | Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Posted on 02/04/2020 1:01:42 AM PST by 11th_VA

(CNN)The Democratic 2020 crusade to oust President Donald Trump could not have got off to a more disastrous and embarrassing start.

The party couldn't even deliver a first-in-the-nation election night winner after a vote-reporting debacle in Iowa — where candidates spent months and millions of dollars vying for a glittering opening prize in their nominating duel.

"Iowa, you have shocked the nation," said former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

It was a bold attempt to declare victory in the absence of a result, but the 38-year-old inadvertently cast an ironic judgment on a political train wreck.

The big Hawkeye State miss will be agonizing for whoever comes out on top but for any candidates who under performed -- perhaps former Vice President Joe Biden -- it might turn into a priceless lifeline.

The caucus nightmare also played right into the hands of a President spoiling for months to brand his rivals as weak, disorganized and even worse — plotting to rig the results to hand its crown to an establishment favorite. There's little doubt that Trump, who consistently erodes distrust in institutions and governing systems, will weaponize such a narrative if it looks like he will lose in November.

Trump operatives are already spinning conspiracy theories and disinformation about what the Iowa Democratic Party said were "inconsistencies" in its results. Their aim is to create a narrative that tars the eventual nominee as illegitimate. And on the eve of his State of the Union address and two days before he's set to be acquitted in his impeachment trial, things cannot have worked out better for the President.

"It would be natural for people to doubt the fairness of the process. And these are the people who want to run our entire health care system?” ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2020; democratdoom; democrats; doom; iowa; iowacaucus; lol
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Ouch - and that’s CNN reporting ...
1 posted on 02/04/2020 1:01:43 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

If only the voters knew that SHADOW uploaded the
results, Hillary and Soros approved, three days ago.


2 posted on 02/04/2020 1:04:02 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: 11th_VA

CNN is blaming Trump for the Democrat snafu. You realize what this means?

Impeach him!


3 posted on 02/04/2020 1:07:39 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 11th_VA

And these are the people that want total control of healthcare?


4 posted on 02/04/2020 1:08:07 AM PST by Singermom
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To: Singermom

Democrats are smart while Trump is a moron. Got it.


5 posted on 02/04/2020 1:09:00 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 11th_VA; Bon mots
[ (CNN)The Democratic 2020 crusade to oust President Donald Trump could not have got off to a more disastrous and embarrassing start. ]

My goodness, if the Democrats have already lost CNN......



Here comes Her Thighness to the rescue. Just watch.
6 posted on 02/04/2020 1:09:35 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Singermom

And education
And the press
And social media
And the Supreme court
And the Senate

And guns


7 posted on 02/04/2020 1:10:31 AM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: 11th_VA
It's like someone is interfering in our elections.


8 posted on 02/04/2020 1:11:04 AM PST by McGruff
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To: 11th_VA

This is what has CNN panicked:

But there must also be questions about whether the Iowa mess is isolated — or augurs a party ill-equipped in the states to take on Trump’s formidable turnout machine, which is being built with his massive campaign war chest. And the importance of Iowa in the process of choosing a president magnifies the cost of its terrible night on Monday.

Do tell. Democrats couldn’t run a lemonade stand yet they can be trusted to run the country?

CNN’s bleating over the Democrat fiasco is music to my ears.


9 posted on 02/04/2020 1:13:12 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: silverleaf; null and void; SkyPilot; Grampa Dave; musicman; Fiddlstix
Note the agenda on the chart on the left (appropriately) - Too bad Dr. Diazepam is dead. Wonder what it was that he knew?


10 posted on 02/04/2020 1:13:33 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

I love that gif !!! CNN is essentially saying, Trump won the RAT caucus - Lol !!!


11 posted on 02/04/2020 1:16:03 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Hass CNN blamed Trump and the Russians yet for the Dem screwup in Iowa? Better get Steele on it.


12 posted on 02/04/2020 1:16:36 AM PST by chuckee
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To: silverleaf

I’m surprised CNN didn’t blame the Russians. Oh well. Where’s Bob Mueller when you really need him?


13 posted on 02/04/2020 1:17:17 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: chuckee

LOL! Great minds think alike.


14 posted on 02/04/2020 1:17:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 11th_VA
I'm the winner!
I'm the winner!!!I'm the winner!!
I'm the winner!

I'm the winner!!!!!I'm the winner!! !  
I'm the winner!!!
I'm the winner!
I'm the winner!!!


15 posted on 02/04/2020 1:18:02 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: 11th_VA; Impy; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; LS; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; NFHale

If BOTH party’s caucus results were in chaos, there would be little for Trump to gloat about, but the GOP caucus results came in promptly on time and accurately counted:

20202 Republican Cancus Results
Donald Trump...... 31,386, 97.1%
Bill Weld................... 422, 1.3%
Joe Walsh.................. 348, 1.1%
Other.......................... 151, 0.5%


16 posted on 02/04/2020 1:18:06 AM PST by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: 11th_VA
I usually go with the triple-bagger, lol - ;)


17 posted on 02/04/2020 1:18:35 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BillyBoy

Trump has 97% Republican backing? Conviction on the bogus impeachment charges are DOA.

Not even the RINOs are going to vote to convict.


18 posted on 02/04/2020 1:21:03 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Meanwhile at the Republican Caucuses (I posted this earlier on the main thread):

Report from my Caucus. IT WAS PACKED...way more people than 2016! I would guess 2000 or so. We had Lara Trump, Weld & Walsh, plus our local IA Senate & House members.

Weld was politely received; Walsh was booed & people were yelling at him after he remarked that President Trump’s tweets are making Republicans the party of old, white men. Half of us in the audience were women...waving our “Women for Trump” Signs. It was FUN for a change:)

(More details): Walsh was basically booed off the stage...and it was WOMEN leading the heckling. Here we are with this sham “impeachment” & Rush Limbaugh’s sad news...no one was in the mood to put up with his crap! He exited to chants of “Four More Years!”


19 posted on 02/04/2020 1:29:39 AM PST by garandgal
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To: 11th_VA

“...Trump, who consistently erodes distrust in institutions and governing systems, will weaponize such a narrative if it looks like he will lose in November.”

Sheahan! And monkeys might fly out of my butt...”


20 posted on 02/04/2020 1:31:02 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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