Posted on 09/03/2019 11:24:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have to win the Iowa caucuses to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, a senior adviser to his campaign said Tuesday.
“Do I think we have to win Iowa? No,” the senior adviser told reporters in a briefing, according to Politico.
“We think we’re going to win,” the adviser added. “We think it’s going to be a dog fight … But we think there are several candidates in this field, there’s probably three or four, that are going to go awhile.”
The Iowa caucuses will mark the first vote of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest and, as such, is seen as a critical test by many campaigns because of its ability to lend candidates early momentum.
SNIP
He doesn’t have to win Iowa, nor anywhere else!
Obama told Joe that he didn’t have to do this at all.
English Translation: All of our internal polls show that we are going to lose.
Biden is too lazy and/or old to campaign across the entire state and that is what is required to win their.
He is holding out for the Delaware primary.
He’s dead, Jim.
That’s like Tennessee saying they didn’t have to beat Georgia State.
Biden is just a place holder. Wait for the bait and switch.
They want to lower expectations. In the primaries and caucuses, exceeding expectations is what gives your campaign momentum.
So if they dampen expectations, and Biden ends up in 2nd place in Iowa, they can spin that as a victory.
If Buttigieg wins the nomination, then he should choose Biden as his rung mate. I want a BUTT/PLUGS bumper sticker.
Joe. That’s crazy talk.
Keep talking!
LOL! Groper confused in the cornfields? Does he even know what state Iowa is in?
He probably doesn’t need to win New Hampshire or South Carolina either.
LOL...is Creepy OLD Joe thinking that the fix is in, for him?
He may already be suffering from the Hildabeast “I AM The President!!” mental disease.
Nice one.. felt kinda bad for the volunteers.
Obama knows that Biden’s poor showing in the primaries will reflect on him. Obama was going to be elected even if he had Charles Manson on the ticket. First black, was his ace in the hole. The lord was with us when Killary was not elected.
I agree. If “they” are saying this now - conceding the possibility that the “leading democrat contender” cannot win Iowa, “they” realize “they” have no chance of winning Iowa.
Which opens the gate for the critical “First Three” (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina) primaries to be run up by extremist social-racist-democrat-communists.
Telling Iowa you don’t need them is a good way to not win Iowa.
If my pick, AOC, does not win the Dem nomination, then dam*it I’m voting for Trump in the primary!(/s)
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