In more ways than one.
Iowa delegate count – 40 delegates RACE CALLED
98.97% of precincts reporting
Candidate
Delegates added
Votes
Percent of votes
20
56,260
51.01%
8
23,420
21.23%
7
21,085
19.12%
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In more ways than one.
Iowa delegate count – 40 delegates RACE CALLED
98.97% of precincts reporting
Candidate
Delegates added
Votes
Percent of votes
20
56,260
51.01%
8
23,420
21.23%
7
21,085
19.12%
another way to look at it
Parody of We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil) originally recorded by The Animals. Lyrics by Greg Trafidlo – Performance and video by Don Caron
When I saw entrance polls last night showing 60% of the caucus voters want a national abortion ban I thought well this is going to be a MAGA blowout. One thing Haley can hope for: New Hampshire voters generally don’t care what Iowa’s Republican wingnuts do.
Ivy, the 4% figure that you mentioned in the past thread I believe is 4% of Republicans turned out. My belief is at 51% of Iowa republicans last night by Trump is not even close to a dominating win. 60% of Iowa Republicans identify as evangelical, and he did not even get that Group. I think Maga did not perform well last night.
rise of the Turd Reich
Democrats were big winners last night, not having to campaign in that miserable weather
“rise of the Turd Reich”
bink, gold star for the day
turd-ing the corner so to speak, Donald Trump’s Iowa Triumph ‘Undermined’ by Triple Loss: Mary Trump (newsweek.com) […] Three lawyers from the firm Tacopina, Seigel & DeOreo are dropping out, which Mary Trump said on her Substack page could have a “devastating impact on a case.” In a blog post titled “Donald’s Iowa Victory Undermined” she said: “There are a few reasons why the loss of counsel is a major set back for any defense. Typically, legal counsel develops a theory of the case in order to help guide preparation. This close to trial, lawyers will have spent hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours compiling evidence and gaining an understanding of the nuances of the case. “New lawyers might not have to start from scratch, but catching up would be a difficult task.” […] A high turnover of lawyers for the former president is not unusual, and he is used to seeing his legal team grow and shrink. He replaced his top defense lawyer Drew Findling with attorney Steve Sadow a matter of hours before he was arraigned in a separate criminal case in Georgia in August last year. But Tacopina’s withdrawal comes on the eve of one major civil case and two months before a criminal trial. The attorney was set to argue on behalf of the 45th president in a criminal case in Manhattan regarding alleged hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. A request to withdraw their services was filed in court by Tacopina, Chad D. Seigel and Matthew G. DeOreo on January 15. […] It is not immediately clear why Tacopina has dropped out of Trump’s legal team. Newsweek has approached him and a spokesperson for Trump via email for comment. Former federal prosecutor Michael McAuliffe told Newsweek there could be a “number of reasons” behind the decision by Tacopina, Seigel & DeOreo. “The attorney-client relationship might have suffered a fundamental breach of confidence, running in either or both directions,” he said. “A strong-willed client who thinks he or she is more of a lawyer than the actual lawyer can create an untenable scenario for that lawyer to continue… Read more »
I’ve never set foot in Iowa but my WWII veteran stepfather was a native of Dubuque. As a mostly silent man, we didn’t hear much about his life there, except he was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy and two of his sisters became nuns. The winning candidate’s morals would not set well with him, I can say with fair certainty.
(My stepfather was not a flexible man and that is an understatement.)
Rise and Fall of the Turd Reich.
BID, the religiosity of the irreligous.
today’s meme…
Pogo, a ridiculously minuscule headcount by any measure with outsized dollars expended on behalf of each one.
Underwhelming numbers. Even SFB didn’t con many to turn out. RonDuh and Hayley are lucky anyone came out in the cold for them.
Ivy – I don’t know where I was seeing those numbers last night (it was a link on CNN), but I wish I had taken a screenshot.
I just looked at the wiki page for 2016, and SFB got 45k+ (he came in second to Cruz with 51k+) but there was a higher turnout because there were a lot of candidates.
Iowa can take their caucus and stick it. Those people are useless.
TV Anchor: Ooooooh we have another county full of Jerkoffs checking in now from north east Iowa. Let’s go to STEVE KORNACKY AT THE BIG BOARD!
Fun fact: North East Iowa is a mirror image of South West Iowa.
Ivy, CBS reported the following:
Apparently the 4% number bandied about last night was a verbal typo, but I heard it on the TV which I assume was the source of the comment yesterday evening.
Pogo, my Facebook friend may have been posting about the percentage of total population in Iowa. He’s supposedly a numbers guy so I didn’t check his math. Any way you calculate, it ain’t a lotta peeps deciding our fate.
Trump won with just 56,000 MAGA votes. No big deal.
Pogo, so he got just over 1/2 of that 15% of iowa GOPers which means he only owns maybe 8% really fervent ones who will risk their lives to vote no matter what happens weatherwise or trial-wise during the general. if all the likely-to-vote dems, never-trumper reps and indies show up to counter then he should lose iowa and perhaps other iowa-like states in november.
wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine
Jack Smith wins as court turns down appeal to keep Trump Twitter records secret (msn.com)
Nicely framed, how this campaign should be run
This could help
Liz Cheney expected to lead anti-MAGA alliance of Republicans into Biden’s camp
https://www.rawstory.com/liz-cheney-2666968298/
craig, seems joe’s team once trump is the nominee could easily put to use this clip even without having to ask her:
Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian:
Saying your god is behind the things Donald Trump says and does may go down in history as the most vicious blasphemy ever.
KO had a good take on it today. SFB has used the words “four years and beyond,” but he muffled it (by talking about Iowa caucuses to be the first in the nation) just enough to give himself plausible deniability.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/liz-cheney-warns-trump-will-never-leave-office-elected-president-rcna127889
“Asked if she believes Trump would try to stay in power forever, Cheney said, “Absolutely. He’s already done it once,” referring to his efforts after the 2020 presidential election to overturn Joe Biden’s victory and to stop its certification on Jan. 6, 2021.”
“The U.S. could become a dictatorship if Trump is re-elected, Cheney warned. “I think it’s a very, very real threat and concern. And I don’t say any of that lightly and frankly, it’s painful for me as someone who has spent her whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as a Republican to watch what’s happening to my party and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power and his success.”
“Cheney said it’s “naive” for Americans to think the country would survive another Trump presidency. She argued that Americans cannot count on a House led by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to stop Trump or a Senate whose members include Republicans Josh Hawley, of Missouri, or Mike Lee, of Utah.”
“Dictatorship” is too mild a term. We will likely descend into total despotism and utter depravity if he is handed power again.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/16/greg-abbott-jeff-yass-camapaign-donation/
“Gov. Greg Abbott received a $6 million campaign contribution last month, which his campaign is calling the “largest single donation in Texas history.”
“The check came from Jeff Yass, a national Republican megadonor whose priority issues include school vouchers. Abbott spent 2023 unsuccessfully pushing for a voucher program and is now targeting state House Republicans in the March primary who thwarted his agenda.”
“Yass is a billionaire from Pennsylvania who is co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based investment firm Susquehanna International Group.”
“Yass has also been a multimillion-dollar donor to the Club for Growth, the national anti-tax group that has boosted Texas Republicans like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Austin.”
Being curious and more than a little obsessed I read the dissent in the Smith search warrant case. I’m sorry but asserting a presumptive executive privilege over Twitter DMs as confidential work papers entitled to executive privilege is not IMHO a credible objection to the opinion upholding the dismissal of the challenge by X to responding to the search warrant. Considering that the court allowed amicus briefs, both the National Archives and TFG had the opportunity to try and convince the court that executive privilege would outweigh Jack Smith’s need for the records in the case against Dumbass. There was no mention of such briefs that I saw referenced in that dissent. My question is “Why not?” After all, if the Electronic Frontier Foundation (whatever the hell that is) can file an amicus brief, why not the author of the records and the entity charged with preserving and protecting them?
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