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?” ...
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“the state GOP actually uses qualified experts instead of dull-normal incompetents.”
plus, the Trump campaign had top officials involved, including Trump’s campaign manager who was actually in Iowa for the caucuses ... unlike the fool Dems, Trump’s campaign realized the importance of a flawless performance at the official opening kickoff of the 2020 election season ... no fumbling for the GOP on the opening kickoff of the super bowl of elections ...
“Ah, but not the point. Now, no one will believe the results. Everyone everywhere will think they’re trying to cook the books a’la Hillary again.”
sadly enough,there’s a lot of truth to that, and it’s because the leftists have sent a tsunami of fakeness over our land, to the point that practically no one believes anything anymore because there are almost no anchors of truth remaining ...
The GOP just votes, doesn’t do the weird archaic thing the rats do where Kevin McCallister’s sister counts people BY HAND, at least make them stand in rows of 10 or something.
Decent turnout for a meaningless GOP contest no? Trump may finish with more raw votes than any of the rat contenders.
And I hear rat turnout is not that great? On pace for 2016 is what I heard. No where near Obama 2008 numbers.
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