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DeSantis team cries foul after Iowa called early for Trump
The Washington Times ^ | Monday, January 15, 2024 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 01/15/2024 9:32:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida lashed out at the media Monday after networks declared former President Donald Trump the winner before some caucus sites had started voting.

“It is absolutely outrageous that the media would participate in election interference by calling the race before tens of thousands of Iowans even had a chance to vote,” said DeSantis spokesman Andrew Romeo. “The media is in the tank for Trump and this is the most egregious example yet.”

The news broke at a caucus site here right around the same time a surrogate for Mr. DeSantis had taken the stage to sing his praises.

Mr. DeSantis has been growing increasingly frustrated with conservative media outlets, accusing them of shielding Mr. Trump from scrutiny.

“[Trump’s] got basically a Praetorian Guard of the conservative media. Fox News, the websites, all this stuff,” Mr. DeSantis said at a recent campaign stop, alluding to Roman emperors’ bodyguards.“They just don’t — they don’t hold him accountable because they’re worried about losing viewers and they don’t want to have the ratings go down.”


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BEFORE: Desantis predicts Trump will declare Iowa stolen if he loses.

AFTER: Desantis declares Iowa stolen after he loses.


41 posted on 01/15/2024 10:07:24 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Nervous Tick
These aren’t voters blowing in the wind, wondering who they should vote for, or if they should vote at all.

I saw several people interviewed on TV today who were still on the fence, but planning to caucus. That’s actually what the caucuses are about, for people to debate their vote, so it’s actually you who doesn’t understand what a caucus is.

You are just making things up, in your shortsighted, biased defense of elections being called early, simply because you got the result you wanted, this time.

42 posted on 01/15/2024 10:09:21 PM PST by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they've been fooled.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Whatever, bulldog.

We’ll see how it comes out down the stretch.

I have faith. Do you?


43 posted on 01/15/2024 10:13:33 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Golden Eagle

I’d say desanctimonious should be charged with election interference, then.

desanctus was trying to discourage people who might caucus for Trump, by making it seem that Trump had already lost.

This would make people less likely to go, if they thought Trump was alreadly planning to say Iowa was stolen from him.

Clearly desanctus was suppressing the vote.


44 posted on 01/15/2024 10:14:29 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: conservative98; Golden Eagle

BEFORE: Desantis predicts Trump will declare Iowa stolen if he loses.

AFTER: Desantis declares Iowa stolen after he loses.

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Hilarious! Fact-based and accurate!


45 posted on 01/15/2024 10:15:22 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: backpacker_c

An interesting debate theory, that. ;-)

I wonder how long before Ronnie Boi “suspends his campaign” and runs back to Florida with his hairless tail between his legs.


46 posted on 01/15/2024 10:18:45 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Golden Eagle

AZ vote was close.
IA vote was landslide.
You see the diff bro?


47 posted on 01/15/2024 10:20:34 PM PST by Bobbyvotes
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More proof that DeSantis isn’t a rational thinker. Trump has no Praetorian Guard in the media, least of all Fox News. 🤣


48 posted on 01/15/2024 10:20:46 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Awww...Did Rhonda Dee Sanctis break a heel?

49 posted on 01/15/2024 10:21:24 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well said, and really illustrates how much choosing the wrong staff of advisors, can impact a candidacy.

Ron surrounded himself with Never Trumpers who cultivated social influencer types that were also Never Trumpers — they wined and dined them in 2022 & early 2023 — no matter where the influencers tried to influence, they were tainted by “never trump” rhetoric.

Their never-Trump influencing, tainted him and normal voters recognized it and voted accordingly.

Now? Everyone caused the loss, but him and his advisors! Waahh! Wahh!


50 posted on 01/15/2024 10:22:13 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: Prince of Space

Amazing how RDS is stealing stuff from talk radio that refers specifically to the liberal deep state and is twisting that and falsely applying it towards Trump.


51 posted on 01/15/2024 10:22:36 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Nervous Tick

So you’re going to try to just skip on by you claiming that I didn’t know what a caucus was, when it’s now clear you are the one who didn’t know? Sounds about typical.

https://ballotpedia.org/Caucus

A caucus is a political party gathering in which party members choose candidates for an election. At a caucus, participants may debate about the candidates….

So while they were supposed to be debating about who they are going to vote for, every network called the election already over. But according to some Trumpers here this is right and good! Kudos to the Trumpers here who admitted it was clearly wrong, as there are a few. Good night.


52 posted on 01/15/2024 10:23:28 PM PST by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they've been fooled.)
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To: Bobbyvotes

I’d like some expert who knows these kinds of things, to explain with numbers, how DeSantis was ‘cheated’ out of votes.

His supporters mostly say MSM called it too early and suppressed votes, or rendered votes meaningless. Potential voters either cast votes for Trump belatedly OR didn’t bother to turn out at all, assuming Trump already won.

So what are the specific figures, (any number cruncher, please weigh in!):

How many votes per county, would have to be suppressed, for RDS to win the county? Or how many counties needed to give him the win, instead of all 99 going to Trump?

etc etc.

I’d really like to see from RDS supporters, how the numbers would work to ensure him a win over Trump.


53 posted on 01/15/2024 10:27:22 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: Golden Eagle

>> Good night.

‘bye now. You’ll feel better when you wake in the morning! And then the awesomeness of President Trump’s massive Iowa victory will wash over you...


54 posted on 01/15/2024 10:28:22 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: unsycophant

>> I’d like some expert who knows these kinds of things, to explain with numbers, how DeSantis was ‘cheated’ out of votes.

ME TOO! But I seriously doubt that explanation is forthcoming... ‘cause it’s bullshit.


55 posted on 01/15/2024 10:30:19 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Golden Eagle

You even know what a caucus is or attended one??


56 posted on 01/15/2024 10:42:07 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, DeSanctimonius; just to bring you up to speed here, FUX NEWS and all their pig eyed sacks of shit talking heads HATE TRUMP.

Just letting you know as a favor.


57 posted on 01/15/2024 10:49:19 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ahh. The beauty of Never Trumper tears. You RAT moles can go back to the DU now.


58 posted on 01/15/2024 10:52:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"DeSantis team cries foul after Iowa called early for Trump"

History suggests that the LMSM will report on an election in a manor that it believes would maximise harm to the conservative party.


59 posted on 01/15/2024 10:57:18 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Yep....

desanctimonious said recently that he had 30,000 commited caucus votes going into the caucus...

That seems to be a lie (what else is new), because he only got about 23k votes.

And for him to beat Trump, in the simplest terms, for every one caucus vote desanctus got, he would have to steal one person that was voting for Trump, to have beat Trump....

or, for every 10 people tonight, 5 voted for Trump, and 2 for desantis, 2 for haley, 1 for vivek.

For desanctus to have won, he would have had to steal more than 2 person from Trump

Not likely to have happened.


60 posted on 01/15/2024 11:01:25 PM PST by backpacker_c
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