Let This Sink In

[Edwcraig]

Iowa Republicans just nominated a seditious traitor, three times impeached, corrupt, politician who attempted to overthrow our Democracy and whose malfeasance in office while previously in office caused the unnecessary death of over 800,000 Americans.

[Tickle]

1. You forgot to mention

he won over %50 of the votes which apparently is a big deal. So I'm reading 🤷?♀️😐

[padah513]

8. IKR?

He won just over 50% when most incumbents are much higher around 80-90% plus. This news media can't wait to hype this clown up even though they know that two-thirds of the people in Iowa still think that President Biden lost. I swear up is down now.

[malaise]

2. You forgot

Rapist white supremacist
Rec

[PJMcK]

21. Fraudster

Sexual predator
Racist
Scumbag


You know, malaise, we could do this all day!

[malaise]

23. Oh yes

Still the really good news is that only 14% of the Iowan electorate voted for this shit

[JohnSJ]

3. It should also be noted that 50% of the Iowa republicans in the caucus did not vote for trump.

That means in Iowa, trump has a significant number there who do not support him within the republican party.

Most of the illustrious press of course will not point that out.

[dalton99a]

5. An important point.

[Hugin]

19. I'm dying to see a breakdown of "other"...

Could there possibly be some votes for Joe Biden in that 84?

[Hope22]

22. This reminds me of my friend voting in the early 70's.

Lived in a very small village and had registered as a Socialist. The day after election he ran downtown to see the printout of votes that hung in the hardware store window. To his amazement there were two Socialist votes recored!!. He spent his life there wondering who the other person was! 🤣😁🤣

[2naSalit]

25. 110,298 votes cast.

The population of the state is 3.2 million.

119,000 registered R voters, 9.000 didn't show up.

51% of 110,298 = approximately 56,000 votes.

Is that correct?

[Silent Type]

27. 56,000.

[2naSalit]

29. Thanks, fixed it.

[FSogol]

26. If only DeSantis had more time & money to reach those final 23,420 Iowan voters, he would have gotten zero votes.

Missed opportunity!

[2naSalit]

32. Right...

A seriously missed opportunity!

[Emile]

4. The Republican game of pissing off the libs

will backfire on them. Donald Trump has destroyed the Republican party and will probably be the last republican president ever.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. was /nt

[Emile]

24. Thanks, that's what I meant to say.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Somewhere, Warren G. Harding is laughing his ass off.

A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which tarnished his reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding#:~:text=A%20member%20of%20the%20Republican,Britton%2C%20which%20tarnished%20his%20reputation.

[czarjak]

7. The Electoral College.

Always allows hope.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Unless a third party causes no candidate to get more than half the electoral votes.

Then, hope is lost.

[ancianita]

10. Let the overall numbers of Iowa sink in, and you'll see that 51% of the 110,298 who voted

is only 15% of Iowa's registered Republican voters who = 718,901

The diehards voted, sure, but 16% of Republicans nationwide have said they won't vote for Trump again. That's a big number.

https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ia

[gab13by13]

11. There are more people in Chicago than in Iowa.

[Tree Lady]

15. And that is the overall problem

We have more people who vote Democrat every election. The small states hold too much power over the majority of the people.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Not More, But Comparable

3 2 million in Iowa, 2.7 million in Chicago.
Now if we want to compare Chicagoland to Iowa, then it's no contest. Chicago metro has 9.6 million people, so it's 3x the population of Iowa!

[LaMouffette]

12. I saw a news reporter on TV asking a white, young-ish guy standing in line to caucus why he supported Trump. He replied:

"Because Trump can't be bought."

I couldn't believe it! Then I remembered that Trump supporters get all their information from FoxNews and other right-wing propagandist media. They don't hear news stories such as Trump selling presidential pardons for $500,000 a pop, or the fact that Trump received $7.9 million from foreign governments while in office. He can't be bought?!!! Seriously?!!!

And if they do hear reports of Trump's many crimes, they have been trained to write it off as "fake news."

The transformation is complete. Trump's loyal voters are brainwashed idiots.

[2naSalit]

30. They are zombies I tell ya.

[MOMFUDSKI]

13. It is mind-blowing but over 50 percent of

the participants voted AGAINST the smelly orange clown. Glass half full.

[sop]

14. We need to stop being surprised when most Republicans repeatedly say they want a president who is a

"seditious traitor, three times impeached, corrupt, politician who attempted to overthrow our Democracy and whose malfeasance in office while previously in office caused the unnecessary death of over 800,000 Americans (and other bad stuff)."

[Sympthsical]

16. He got 50,000 - 60,000 votes in a state of 3 million

These are his super hard core supporters who came out in brutal weather.

I don't think this is really dispositive of the country at the moment. We'll need to see actual primaries before we can gauge where we're at with all this. I think ForgedCrank is correct to some degree in their post above. I keep tabs on the Right, and while support for Trump has severely ebbed in the past few years within the party outside his true believers, the legal cases against him have kind of revved some of it back up.

Will that motivation carry through the primaries, much less through to the general? Too early to say. I don't have a good idea of the shape of things and probably won't until March.

[JI7]

18. It's Iowa

[NoRethugFriends]

28. Forget it Jake, it's Iowa

[Whiskeytide]

31. I suspect the Meatball Ron and Ramadamadingdong votes will ...

… easily transfer to Тяцмp. The NikKiknack votes less so - maybe 50% (that’s where the Never-Тяцмpers are coalescing).

That could mean approx 87% of Rs can still be expected to vote to end democracy in November.

It’s a small sample and it’s Iowa - so it’s hard to take anything really meaningful from it - but that sounds about right, and is a troubling scenario. We really need to GOTFV!

[GuppyGal]

33. And this is going to go on in state after state