Iowa
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe that it will come out later that the Iowa Democratic Party, in conjunction with the DNC, and Pete Buttigieg’s campaign conspired to swing votes to Pete’s campaign covertly. They fucked up when they realized Bernie had receipts.
— Kevin Thee Donkey 🌹 (@swallowit_) February 4, 2020
I can’t say he’s wrong. I can’t. And the simple fact is that the Democratic National Committee, and mainstream Democrats generally, have earned a deep distrust from the Left.[1]
And when we stop to think about it, we don’t even understand why Bernie Sanders is running as a Democrat. Because it’s more than clear to us that, one way or another, The Party will do everything it can to stop Sanders.[2]
Whom among us hasn't done "economic development" in war zones for McKinsey, learned the ins and outs of CIA operations, and later found themself running in a political race against a socialist, using a shady firm for vote tallying, and declaring victory early on accident?
— Raven (@TerraChained) February 4, 2020
Fig. 1. Screenshot of Associated Press Iowa caucus results, as of 1:55 am.
I respect the attempts to salvage Biden's performance, but I think they're wrong. He's a VP with high name recognition, whose argument is being able to appeal to blue collar whites. He finished third among voters without college degrees, and won those w/o any college by a point.
— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) February 5, 2020
- [1]Donna Brazile, “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC,” Politico, November 2, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774; Justine Coleman, “Obama privately said he would speak up to stop Sanders: report,” Hill, November 26, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/472090-obama-privately-said-he-would-speak-up-to-stop-sanders-report; Ryan Lizza, “Waiting for Obama,” Politico, November 26, 2019, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/26/barack-obama-2020-democrats-candidates-biden-073025; Alex Shephard, “The Impotence of ‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats,” New Republic, April 18, 2019, https://newrepublic.com/article/153605/impotence-stop-sanders-democrats↩
- [2]Peter Daou with Leela Daou, “I worked for Hillary Clinton. Her attacks on Bernie Sanders are a big mistake,” Guardian, January 21, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attacks-netflix; Shane Goldmacher, “Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders for Not Working to Unite Democrats in 2016,” New York Times, January 31, 2020, ttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.html; Donie O’Sullivan, “The Democrats’ new online troll fighters make 2020 debut in Iowa,” CNN, February 2, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/politics/facebook-democrats-disinformation-iowa/index.html↩