Trump And His Campaign Pounce On Dems’ Iowa Caucus Fiasco

President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican Party of Iowa Annual Dinner in West Des Moines, Iowa on June 11, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign seized on the chaos of Monday’s Iowa Democratic caucuses, the results of which are still unknown as of Tuesday morning due to technical issues with the tallying process.

“The Democrat Caucus is an unmitigated disaster,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. “Nothing works, just like they ran the Country.”

He then patted himself on the back, claiming that he was “the only person” who won “a very big victory” in Iowa.

The President’s campaign jumped in as well.

“Democrats are stewing in a caucus mess of their own creation with the sloppiest train wreck in history,” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement on Monday night.

He also said it would be “natural” for people to “doubt the fairness of the process,” echoing Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s efforts to fuel discord among Democrats with evidence-free talk of “rigging.”

“And these are the people who want to run our entire health care system?” Parscale added.

The Iowa Democratic Party has yet to release the results of the caucuses due to a series of glitches with the app the party used to count the votes. HuffPost reported on Tuesday that the app was created by Shadow, a tech company headed by 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign director of product Gerard Niemira.

“We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results,” Mandy McClure, Iowa’s Democratic Party communications director, said in a statement. “In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report.”

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  1. Regardless of what actually happened, who is going to believe that there wasn’t some external influence? Thank you, GOP, for taking away our assumption that we will ever have fair elections again and making people even more cynical.

  2. Of course trump never screws up and wins all the time.
    Bletch.
    Nice job Russia.
    Well hell, really, I am not sure what to think but it was entertaining to hear all the victory speeches.

  3. It’s Iowa. A small state that’s not going to bear much for either presidential candidate. It’s a caucus. Inherently prone to clusterfuckery so no surprise here. And it’s essentially a trial run. Some time today the results will be known. I live in Florida and remember the 2000 gold standard clustefuck that was the presidential election there. Not a caucus in a small state but the entire presidential election was in the balance and no GOP’er blamed Jeb Bush for the mess. It was probably intentional to mask over a deliberate manipulation that let the real winner lose.

    Who cares. Like Josh Marshall says “Caucuses suck” and the proof is in the pudding.

  4. Just looking at the various venues on TV and how this caucus was supposed to work it seemed like a cluster ready to happen

  5. The home page state this:
    Trump And His Campaign Pounce On Democrats’ Iowa Caucus Disaster

    The article heading is this:
    “Trump And His Campaign Pounce On Dems’ Iowa Caucus Fiasco”
    You know what these are? CLICKBAIT

    A Fiasco or a Disaster would mean they’d have to do the entire thing over. I’m actually disappointed that TPM would post such hyperbole headlines.

    Let’s put this into perspective. Stop looking at this electronic glitch as a disaster and take it as a heads up. Don’t rely on technology to do what people should be doing. I read that Iowa told the DNC last week there was a problem with the app but obviously they didn’t listen. This is not a hand wringing event-it is a opportunity to go back to paper and stick with it because it’s the only reliable option. What was wrong with how the caucus was done in previous years? Nothing. As the saying goes if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With all the voting machine problems over the years why would the DNC even go this route. Flood the DNC with emails telling them to stop messing with things when there is no track record on how it works.

    Don’t feed into the tRump and MSM hysteria. It’s a bump in the road that can easily be smoothed out but only if people stop treating it as if it’s some sort of sign of doom. Good grief.

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