Posted on 01/16/2024 1:15:01 PM PST by bitt
President Donald Trump scored the greatest Republican caucus win in history on Monday night defeating the next closest Republican, Governor Ron DeSantis, by 30 points.
On Tuesday morning, Tucker Carlson weighed in on Trump’s historic win in the Hawkeye state.
Tucker Carlson, Episode 65.
Tucker Carlson: What would happen if we held an election the way that Americans used to do it just a few years ago? We should try that sometime. Here s how it would work. Everyone would vote on the same day in person. You would show up and present an id, just like you do at the airport or the liquor store. Then you’d mark your preferences on a piece of paper. You do it manually. There would be no electronic voting machines. There would be no dropboxes or absentee ballots. The poll workers would probably people that you recognize from your own zip code. They’d be your neighbors. They would not be employees of Mark Zuckerberg from California. As for the names on the ballot, you would get to choose those yourself, as citizens do. In a democracy, judges wouldn’t be allowed to tell you who you can vote for and who you can’t vote for. You’d get to decide. And then once you voted, nobody could order a stop to the vote counting. That would be illegal. So you would know the results of the election in just a few hours, and you would feel pretty confident that they were pretty real.
That’s how we used to do it in this country. What would happen if we tried it again? Well, as it happens, the state of Iowa did that very thing last night. They had their caucuses. That’s the first contest in the 2024 presidential cycle. It all felt very retro, very non third world, but the results were interesting.
Here they are. Donald Trump won 51% of the vote. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida got 21%. Nikki Haley got 19%. In other words, Donald Trump won decisively. At this point, it’s hard to see how he’s not the Republican nominee, because he didn’t just win last night, he triumphed overwhelmingly by a historic margin. Trump won the Iowa caucuses by about 30 points. That’s more than double the previous record that was set in 1988 by Bob Dole. So last night was not close. It was a shocking blowout. Trump did to Iowa what the Vikings once did to the Irish coast. Only smoldering huts remain.
Chris Wallace looked like he was going to be sick. On the other channels they cast about, looking for an explanation for this unexpected calamity. Here was NBC News’ explanation. This is a state that is overrepresented by white Christians that are going to participate in these caucuses, especially tonight. I today, earlier today, reached out to Robert Jones, Robbie Jones from the Public Religion Research Institute, knowing that we were going to talk about Iowa and this is a hyper evangelical white state, because I asked him, what do they get out of supporting Donald Trump because he keeps losing. He keeps delivering losses and losses and losses. And he said the following. They see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country, and Trump has promised to give it back to them. All the things that we think about, about electability, about what are people gaming out, none of that matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours, and that everyone who is not a white, conservative Christian is a fraudulent American…
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Republicans who stay in the race are traitors.
I thought it was interesting that she didn’t even change her post caucus speech when she came in third. Her opening was that now it was a “two person” race. Which means she was suspending her election or felt like she was “owed” second place and couldn’t change her speech.
Nikki Haley is so ambitious that she is willing to accept Uniparty money, Democratic votes and break her pledge to never run against Trump. She has refused to condemn the trans for kids people and abortion up to birth nonsense.She is the worst kind of politician, willing to do or say anything to win. This makes her no different than a “the ends justify the means” liberal.
Here are the views of a liberal Republican RINO:
support for “universal health care”
support for amnesty
support for transgenderism, including having them in beauty pageants
supporting woke corporations against an attempt to protect kids,
inability to define a woman
very little wall
criticizing one of the most pro-life abortion laws in America
attacking governors who opened their states early during the pandemic
commending Fauci
promoting the dangerous, experimental vaccines
Any diea whose record that is?
You are describing Trump
What sucks is that I’m still going to vote for him, even if he’s in jail.
Well, that was disturbing. While I agree with TC about Haley, I think he’s forgetting how surprising the future can be.
After all, Biden’s rather frail. Why assume he’ll be around in November? And if he drops out, does that leave Harris? Doubtful. If the Dems know she’s a loser, less popular than Biden, etc., and Biden’s out, it’s wide open. They can rummage around for someone else. Newsom, perhaps; so telegenic, kind of Justin Trudeau-esque.
I would not put it past them to offer the spot to RFK, though he’s currently despised by the Dem establishment. He’s still a Kennedy and might even appeal to non-Dem voters. He’s a name, and it’s a very well known one. Would he sell out to get the presidency? Yeah he totally would.
Newsom and Kennedy are just two of many the Dems could pull out of their hats. The only name we can safely rule out is Hillary.
Point is, by spring or summer the race could be in a state of complete chaos. Just look at Biden and tell me that’s not probable.
Therefore I’m not convinced the Dems are hoping for a Dem Lite to run against their candidate, because they’d lose; I think they want her because she would lose.
Behind the scenes they’re already looking for someone other than Harris. They’re not going to lose the female vote or the black vote — at least they don’t believe so.
2024 may be as weird a year as 2020, or worse, 1968. (War, riots, King, Wallace, Kennedy — that year.)
Zelenskyy may be out of the picture, or Putin. The economy could crash or the Chinese could send us more virus or the border situation could turn into a hot war. With any of that, nobody’s going to make a fuss about a switcheroo on the Dem ticket.
Dems aren’t planning to lose. They want another 2012, another beatable Romney. That’s her value to them.
“They want another 2012, another beatable Romney. That’s her value to them.”
They want two candidates where they don’t care who wins because they are behind both of them.
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