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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 ...
Maybe the computer that try to tally the caucus’ results was non-binary.
The New Normal is Democrat dysfunction.
Trump is the butterfly flapping wings over Iowa that sparks chaos in the Democrat voting system.
Either that or it was a Black Swan event.
[Not even the RINOs are going to vote to convict.]
You’re got to have faith in Mitt Romney (D-Kolob).
Trump, who consistently erodes distrust in institutions and governing systems
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Say whut?
As well they should. You can't let opportunities like these go to waste. Just as when the media tried to ignore the "hacked" DNC emails, Trump was right to draw attention to them and the corruption they exposed. Infighting and division among the socialists, anarchists, feminists and communists is a good thing. Hell, look what they have done to divide conservatives. Let it burn.
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.
Whoever said last night that President Trump would be blamed by morning was right.
The author is reading way too much into it. Truth is, Iowa’s importance is overblown. Their caucuses only became important in 1976 because an obscure peanut farmer from Georgia won it, and went on to get the nomination and the White House.
Results will be reported later today, and this debacle will start fading into the background within a couple days.
can we also say FAILURE! once again. Even Iowa see’s there is no candidate
Optics my friend - this story will be the #1 story today, ahead of the SOTU, and NOT impeachment ...
And I should add, a failure like this will disillusion young people needed to campaign for the RATs ... this is a big victory for President Trump !!!
I didn't know Huffpost were Trump operatives. See Huffpo thread lol
It sounds like no one is in charge of the demoncrat party.
Exactly. They want total, microscopic control of every single thing you do or think, but they can’t even successfully stage a fake, Soviet-style “election.”
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Boy, I like that sentence.
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Oh no!
The Iowa caucus system is an absolute fuster cluck. No Secret Ballot!?!? And we allow this state’s Schitt authority to be the first “vote” of the presidential primary? REALLY? Iowa failed BIGLY tonight, shame on them, and shame on the national RNC and DNC to sanction this BS. Iowa with their extremely flawed caucus should NOT be the first flawed state to “vote”.
And our current presidential primary system voting is FUBAR. By the time my state holds the vote, a handful of states have already picked a “front runner”, virtually voiding every other vote of the majority of states afterwards. (rant/)
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