Top Democrats turn on each other after Iowa, threatening the party’s chances against Trump

Washington Compost ^ | Feb 10, 2020 | Michael Scherer, Sean Sullivan

[Grampa Dave]

MANCHESTER, N.H. —Democratic leaders have edged toward the brink of open war with one another in recent days after a series of jarring setbacks that could jeopardize the party's chances against President Trump, who continues to solidify his iron-fisted control over the Republican election apparatus.

The infighting focuses largely on the failed caucus process in Iowa, with state and national Democratic leaders at odds over who deserves blame, as well as an increasingly bitter dispute over the rules governing who gets into future nationally televised candidate debates — a process that could allow billionaire Mike Bloomberg to make the stage later this month....

A former New York mayor, Bloomberg gave more than $1.5 million to the national and state parties in the final months of last year, according to federal election records. He so far has collected only one of the four 10 percent polls he needs to qualify for the Las Vegas debate Feb. 19....

Dem primaries are becoming circular firing squads!

Just Stand Back, and let them destroy each other!

Sit back and enjoy the dems in their circular firing squads!

Thanks to Bonemaker for this great reality.

[Dan in Wichita]

Exactly what I was thinking!!

[txnativegop]

I am loving this!

[Fellow Traveler]

Lets keep the pain going, cast your vote based on the 15% rule. The democrats changed their primary systems to proportional voting after the last election. So every candidate gets delegates based on their percentage. They put in a floor of 15%. To get delegates they must have at least 15% of the vote. My theory is that we want a contested convention with as many candidates as possible with delegates. If we vote for the candidate nearest to 15% in the state polls before the primary we can keep as many of them alive as long as possible. I say nearest to 15% because all polls have a margin of error. So a candidate polling 16.5% might only get 14.9% of the vote and fail to get delegates. By keeping as many of these losers alive as possible hopefully all the way to the convention we create disunity and distrust. Imagine if we could keep six candidates viable, Crazy Bernie, Mayor Pete, Liawatha, Bite Me, Klobuchar and mini-mike. The convention goes to a second or third vote. Deals get made, hopefully, several of them get screwed over. Disunity and an even bigger victory in November.

My district in Texas has no primary races of interest to me therefore I can indulge in this. By all means though if you have a chance to vote against the GOPe in the primary that is where you need to cast your ballot.

[eclectic]

They should form a circular firing squad promptly.

[cnsmom]

Nancy knew she had to get the DNC on the same page by Christmas and she didn’t and everything was doomed at that point it was all her fault.

[tflabo]

Rat fight over the big cheese. Here’s hoping for massive collateral damage.

[Magnum44]

[txnativegop]

I am curious to see just how much damage might be done to the Dems because of all of this, as an organized party.