Monday night’s Iowa caucuses were especially rough for former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), who polled at less than one percent four years after winning the contest.
But adding insult to injury, MSNBC managed to find a Santorum precinct captain who didn’t even vote for the long-shot candidate – because his pen ran out of ink.
As the unnamed chair pulled up a photo of the precinct’s vote tally sheet on his phone, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes noted there was an “X” by Santorum’s name.
“What, you didn’t vote for him?” Hayes asked.
“As I was writing down, my pen ran out of ink,” the man answered, turning red in the face. “I was like, I can’t just ask somebody for a new pen while I’m doing this.”
“Buddy, you’re the Santorum dude,” Hayes said with a laugh.
“I know, I know,” the chair responded. “Failure to launch, failure to launch.”
Hayes later posted video of the exchange online captioned “here’s why Rick Santorum got zero votes at the GOP caucus we were at tonight.”
Here’s that video, via MSNBC:
Here’s why Rick Santorum got zero votes at the GOP caucus we were at tonight. https://t.co/8J8SJMcRFi
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) February 2, 2016
h/t The Hill
