My takeaways were very different:
—The network calls were irrelevant. Caucus voters know who they are supporting and could not care less what anyone else says about the results. DeSantis complaints about that were stupid and made him look like an idiot—yet another unforced error.
—President Trump won a historic victory. This is not an opinion. This is a fact. The next closest Iowa caucus race had a 12% margin. President Trump will be in the 29-30% margin range.
—DeSantis is done. He needs to stop spinning and go back to Florida.
—Haley is done. No matter how many Democrats vote for her in New Hampshire or anywhere else she is going to be crushed in almost all states.
—This race is over. Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. Everything else is useless noise.
Early calls suppress votes, where people either go home early, or then don’t go to vote at all. That’s why Trump was so upset at Fox for calling Arizona early, and Bush about Florida one year.
Trump may win the primary now but his chances in the general are still not good, especially if Biden is replaced as many suspect. A lot of the exit poll info was very interesting, most notable to me that almost all Trump voters had electability as the last reason they support Trump, showing it’s not something they seemingly even care about.
Go ahead and enjoy your victory tonight, as you should. But tomorrow will be another day, with Trump back in court, and the primary still under way.