Ask Ben Carson.
My contacts on the ground in Iowa confirm that Cruz operatives were actively and aggressively steering voters to the Cruz caucus and were claiming all types of things to confuse people. These conversations I have had on the phone are backed by a group of others. Press reports also confirm that Cruz operatives were meddlesome. All this is circumstantial but the people talking to me are not anti-Cruz. They are anti-Rubio.
I said it is becoming clear as to the nature of the character of the people around Cruz. It is becoming clear to me now. It will become clear to others later as the tactics are viewed repeatedly. I am sharing this information now so that as more and more people see it unfold, they will remember that others said the same thing previously and will think it is a pattern.
Others will continue to be turned off by his antics and hopefully Cruz can pick some of those up.
We know 0bama stole Iowa in 2008.
Without control mechanisms in place to ensure the integrity of the vote, who wins there is always going to be up for grabs. To be able to grab multiple ballots, vote on notebook paper, mill around after the fact and go vote again, have anyone’s campaign operative speak to active voters, and have only one person see and count the votes-creates obvious risk for fraud.
None of us would want anything similar for those who handle our money.
I saw with my own eyes once how to manipulate a much less important vote. It taught me a lot. It cost the other person the friendship. We had a revote.
That was small, in comparison to this, I suppose. But I remember everything.
It doesn’t matter to me now, in this situation, who won Iowa. Iowa’s tainted, though, and it needs to fix itself. We can argue character, etc., etc. But the integrity of the vote there matters, and so, we can declare anyone - dogcatcher included - and be right.