2020 Presidential Election

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dailycaller.com/2020/02/03/twitter-censor-trump-super-bowl-ad/

Twitter Restricts Trump Super Bowl Ad For ‘Sensitive Content’

Twitter restricted President Donald Trump’s Super Bowl campaign ad after he tweeted it out Sunday night, according to Trump campaign Rapid Response Director Matt Wolking.

Trump’s ad highlighted the administration’s work on criminal justice reform and featured Alice Johnson, a former federal inmate who had been serving a life sentence on non-violent drug charges until Trump granted her clemency in 2018. Twitter placed a “sensitive content” warning over the video and required users to request access to view it.


The ad aired during Super Bowl LIV, but the president also tweeted it out. Wolking claims it was restricted after critics of Trump mass-reported it. (RELATED: Here’s Twitter’s Plan To Create A World Where Censoring Conservatives Is Unnecessary)

Twitter’s guidelines prohibit posting videos that are “excessively gory or share violent or adult content.”

“Yet again, Twitter is silencing President Trump and his campaign on their platform for putting out truthful and compelling content. The ad about Alice Johnson’s incredible story highlighted the President’s commitment to criminal justice reform and second chances for people,” Trump campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh told the Daily Caller.

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“It’s little wonder why leftists want to block that content – they can’t beat Trump so they try to stop him from communicating. Voters are the ones who suffer when they are deprived of all information and points of view.”

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the restriction appears to have been lifted.

Wolking says Twitter restricted one of the Trump campaign’s videos in the past when social media site attached a warning label to a pro-life ad centered on the March For Life.

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dailycaller.com/2020/02/03/joe-biden-today-show-nbc-savannah-guthrie-hunter-burisma-video-iowa-caucus/

‘Today’ Anchor Savannah Guthrie Presses Joe Biden On Hunter And Burisma



NBC’s Savannah Guthrie pressed former Vice President Joe Biden during an interview that aired Monday morning on the subject of his son Hunter’s work in Ukraine for Burisma Holdings.

When first asked about Hunter’s work in Ukraine, Biden responded that “no one found anything wrong with his dealings with Ukraine, except they say it sets a bad image.”


DUBUQUE, IOWA - FEBRUARY 02: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on February 02, 2020 in Dubuque, Iowa. With one day to go before the 2020 Iowa Presidential caucuses, Joe Biden is campaigning across Iowa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
DUBUQUE, IOWA – FEBRUARY 02: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on February 02, 2020 in Dubuque, Iowa. With one day to go before the 2020 Iowa Presidential caucuses, Joe Biden is campaigning across Iowa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

He additionally agreed that it “sets a bad image” when asked about it by Guthrie a second time, noting that even Hunter himself “said that.” (RELATED: NBC News Report: John Kerry Losing Faith In Joe Biden, Discussed Jumping Into 2020 Race Himself To Oppose Bernie Sanders)

However, the former vice president bristled when Guthrie suggested that Hunter was given the position in exchange for “access” to Biden and the Obama White House.

“That’s not true. You’re saying things that you don’t know what you’re talking about,” Biden snapped. “No one said that. Who said that?”

“He’s a very bright guy,” he continued, talking over Guthrie’s questions about how it could appear “sleazy.” “He said he regretted having done it. Speaks for himself. He’s a grown man.”

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The segment concluded with Guthrie asking Biden if he was predicting a “win” in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, to which he responded “I predict we will do very well.”

Heading into Monday, Biden trailed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Real Clear Politics’ Iowa polling average, though he still holds a three-point lead nationally.

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www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-snaps-on-savannah-guthrie-for-asking-about-son-hunter-you-dont-know-what-youre-talking-about

WATCH: Biden Snaps On Savannah Guthrie For Asking About Son Hunter: ‘You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About!’

During an interview Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden lost it on “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie for asking about his son Hunter Biden’s controversial high-paying position at Burisma, a large Ukrainian natural gas firm, during Biden’s tenure as Vice President.


Mr. Biden, who’s been dogged by questions surrounding Hunter, reacted as he’s typically reacted to such inquiries: with palpable anger.

“You don’t know what your’e talking about!” the former VP shouted at Guthrie, when the co-host suggested Hunter’s position was improper, and only a way for the company to gain access to the Obama administration.

Here’s the exchange:

Guthrie: Has it occurred to you that there’s a certain irony here that, here the president is accused of, and has acknowledged, wanting to get information about your son Hunter and his dealings with Ukraine? And this process of impeachment has ensured that everyone knows about Hunter’s dealings with Ukraine.

Biden: Thats a good thing! And no one has found anything wrong with his dealing with Ukraine, expect that they say that it set a “bad image.”

Guthrie: Would you agree that it sets a bad image?

Biden: Yeah, and my son said that!

Guthrie: Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position, knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you.

Biden: Well, that’s not true. You’re saying things that you do not know what you’re talking about! No one said that! Who said that?

Guthrie: Well —

Biden: Who said that?

Guthrie: Don’t you think that it’s just one of those things where people think, Well, that’s kind of sleazy. Why would he (Hunter) have that job if not for who his father is?

Biden: Because he’s a very bright guy.

Guthrie: Well, I guess the question I’m kind of asking is, was it right?

Biden: Well, he said he (Hunter) regretted having done it. Speaks for himself. He’s a grown man.


As noted by The Daily Wire in December, Biden was pressed by NPR about Hunter’s position on the board of Burisma, too.

“You know it didn’t look good for Hunter Biden to be on that board, even if he did nothing wrong,” NPR’s “Morning Edition” host Rachel Martin said to the former VP. “The optics weren’t good. And you talk a lot about what it means to be a Biden and the integrity that is imbued in that family name. But there were former White House aides of yours who tried to warn you about the potential conflicts of interest.”


Biden claimed he was never warned about a “potential conflict of interest.”

Martin challenged Biden, noting, “George Kent, the State Department official, testified that he raised” the issue to the then-VP’s staff.


“I never, never heard that once at all,” Biden claimed. “Well, my son was dying, so I guess that’s why he said it, because my son was on his deathbed. But that, that’s not the reason why – they should have told me.”

“And the fact of the matter is, my son testified and did an interview saying if he, looking back on it, made a mistake, he made a mistake although he did nothing wrong,” he continued. “The appearance looked bad and it gave folks like Rudy Giuliani an excuse to come up with a Trumpian kind of defense, why they were violating the Constitution. His, his words speak for themselves.”

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Michael Moore and President Trump can at least agree on one thing: the Democratic National Committee is up to more nefarious antics in its handling of candidates, particularly democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whom Trump has repeatedly said is being deliberately undermined by the Democratic Party machine.


In a speech that has turned some heads for its explosive nature — and one prominent F-bomb — left-wing documentarian Michael Moore unloaded on the DNC at a pre-caucus rally for his candidate of choice, Bernie, in Iowa on Friday. Moore’s specific complaint, as The Daily Wire reported, was the DNC’s new decision to remove some debate requirements, allowing self-funded billionaire candidate Michael Bloomberg, who has climbed to fourth in the polls, to participate in the next debate.

“The D.N.C. announced Friday that in order to participate in the debate, set for Feb. 19 in Las Vegas, a candidate must win at least a single delegate in either the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary or meet polling requirements,” The New York Times reported Friday. “It has eliminated the requirement that candidates must have received donations from hundreds of thousands of individuals. Mr. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire, is running a self-funded campaign and is not soliciting donations.”

“They removed it so that [Bloomberg] could be in the next debate,” an enraged Moore declared at a Bernie rally in Clive, Iowa on Friday. “He doesn’t have to show he has any support amongst the American people.”

“He can just buy his way onto the debate and I got to tell what’s so disgusting about this,” Moore exclaimed. “I watched the debate in Iowa here two weeks, the all-white debate, and the fact that Democratic, the DNC will not allow Cory Booker on that stage, will not allow Julian Castro on that stage, but they’re going to allow Mike Bloomberg on the stage because he’s got a billion f***ing dollars!”



Following a trend dating back since early reports of the DNC torpedoing Sanders in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton, Trump posted a series of tweets over the weekend hitting the committee for its treatment of the Vermont senator, who has recently surpassed longtime frontrunner Joe Biden in some polls.


“Many of the ads you are watching were paid for by Mini Mike Bloomberg. He is going nowhere, just wasting his money, but he is getting the DNC to rig the election against Crazy Bernie, something they wouldn’t do for [Cory Booker] and others,” Trump said, echoing Moore’s complaint. “They are doing it to Bernie again, 2016.”

“Mini Mike is now negotiating both to get on the Democrat Primary debate stage, and to have the right to stand on boxes, or a lift, during the debates,” Trump added in a follow-up post. “This is sometimes done, but really not fair!”


Trump continued to hit the issue of the DNC “rigging” the game against Sanders on Monday morning in a post quoting “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy: “The DNC on Bernie Sanders, ‘Looks like they’re going to do it to him again, doesn’t it?'”

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www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/03/marine-le-pen-brexit-is-a-terrifying-failure-for-the-european-union/

Marine Le Pen, the president of the French populist right-wing party Rassemblement National (National Rally), congratulated the United Kingdom for regaining its “freedom” but went on to say that Brexit was a “terrifying failure” for the European Union.

“After multiple twist and turns, the UK has finally regained its freedom. But this is a terrifying failure for the EU”, said Ms Le Pen.




“We will no doubt see, over the coming months and years, that the UK did the right thing and will probably benefit a great deal. In fact, I have already noticed that the disaster-mongering has already given way to cautious warnings from those who were sure the British people would be ruined, there would be massive unemployment…” she added, according to the Brussels Times.

“I also think this event is not generating a great deal of comments considering a founding EU country just walked out. That’s not exactly insignificant”, Le Pen concluded.

On Twitter the populist leader wrote that Brexit should mark the beginning of a new “European Alliance” that is more reflective of what the majority of European citizens want, adding that “this European Union will go down in history as a resounding failure!”

Ms Le Pen’s comments come in contrast to President Emanuel Macron, who called for more powers for the European Union in light of Britain’s exit from the bloc.

“This Brexit is possible, has been possible, and comes into force in a few hours, because we have too often made Europe a scapegoat for our own difficulties and also because we have not changed our Europe enough. More than ever, we need Europe”, said Macron.

“I would be lying to you to say this evening that the future of our country could be built on less Europe”, he said as to a possible French exit (Frexit) from the EU.

In 2018 President Macron admitted that the people of France would “probably” vote to leave the European Union if given the chance to vote on a similar referendum to the Brexit vote in 2016.

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www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/02/02/brokaw-on-sanders-2020-chances-really-hard-to-see-how-people-will-say-im-for-socialism/

During the roundtable discussion segment of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw admitted his skepticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chances at the presidency, especially with the success of the economy.

Brokaw said he did not see how anyone would say they were for socialism, given the nation’s current economic position.


“I think, Chuck, that frankly among younger voters that’s a possibility for him. But with a strong economy, it’s really hard to see how a lot of people will step up and say, ‘I’m for socialism. I want to change this because there are a lot of changes going on in our economy around the country.’ It’s more innovative than it’s been in my lifetime frankly. But very little of it has to do with socialism.”

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Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Monday announced that eight Iowa counties have more voter registrations than eligible voters.

There are at least 18,658 extra names on the voter rolls in Iowas, Judicial Watch reported.

The watchdog group also reported that Polk County has an unusually high rate of 95.9% of total eligible voters registered.

Via Judicial Watch:

www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-eight-iowa-counties-have-total-registration-rates-larger-than-eligible-voter-population-at-least-18658-extra-names-on-iowa-voting-rolls-2/

Judicial Watch announced that eight Iowa counties have more voter registrations than their eligible voting-age population. According to Judicial Watch’s analysis of data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in 2019 and the most recent U.S. Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey, eight Iowa counties are on the list of 378 counties nationwide that have more voter registrations than citizens living there who are old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%. These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark. In Iowa, there are at least 18,658 “extra names” on the voting rolls in the eight counties at issue.

The chart below details the eight Iowa counties’ registration rate percentages:

Reg Rate Total Population
Dallas County 114.8 80,864
Johnson County 107.9 114,425
Lyon County 102.5 11,475
Madison County 102.5 15,720
Poweshiek County 102.1 18,428
Dickinson County 100.9 17,000
Scott County 100.8 171,493
Warren County 100.5 48,630

“Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections and Iowa need to undertake a serious effort to address its voting rolls,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

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www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/03/politico-democrats-already-conceding-iowa-to-president-trump/

Politico: Democrats Already Conceding Iowa to President Trump

Democrats are not planning to wage a serious war over Iowa in this year’s general election and are effectively conceding it to President Trump, Politico reported Monday.

“Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won’t Be Back,” Politico declared in a headline on the day of the Democrat caucuses in Iowa. While all eyes have been on Iowa in recent months, the Hawkeye State may not receive the same kind of attention after the Democrat Party selects its nominee and gears up for the general election matchup.




Iowa has carried its status as a “quintessential general-election battleground” state, but Politico asserts it “won’t be the case this year,” citing Democrats who no longer consider it a true battleground and are, therefore, conceding it to President Trump.

As Politico reported:

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Few states received more time and attention from Barack Obama during his White House campaigns than Iowa. Part of that was due to its pride of place in his political ascent; Iowa, after all, was the state that vaulted him from longshot to Clinton slayer. But there was also as widespread view back then that Iowa was up for grabs in November. Now, less than five years removed from his presidency, Democrats talk openly about not contesting the state at all.

“The trends here are much more red than purple. I could see that swinging back at some point, but probably not with Trump on the ballot,” says Ben Foecke, who served as executive director of the Iowa Democratic Party four years ago. “It became clear to us in 2016 that this was the path we were heading down, at least in the short term, so I’m not surprised when I hear these conversations or read these memos explaining that Iowa isn’t really a swing state in 2020.”

Indeed, Iowa remained a Democrat stronghold for over a decade, going to the Democrat presidential candidate in 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000. Former President George W. Bush managed to squeak out a narrow victory in 2004 by less than a full percentage point, but the Hawkeye State ultimately went with former President Barak Obama in both 2008 and 2012. President Trump, however, managed to defeat his Democrat challenger, Hillary Clinton, in Iowa in 2016, winning by nearly ten percentage points.

According to Politico, Democrats are not planning on putting up a fight this year, largely due to the GOP’s strength among rural voters:

Moreover, there’s recent history to consider: Democrats flipped two Republican-held congressional seats in the 2018 midterms, giving the party control of three of the state’s four districts, and also won a number of bellwether legislative races in the suburban areas around Des Moines. These victories, on top of ousting the Republican state auditor, gave some Democrats confidence of being able to compete statewide with Trump’s apparatus in 2020.

And yet, embedded in those 2018 results were trendlines that demonstrate just how distinct Trump’s advantage in Iowa has become. Despite overall midterm turnout spiking by some 180,000 votes compared to 2014, Republicans were able to hold both chambers of the legislature and several statewide offices, including the governorship, all while growing their advantage in active party registration. The reason: Even in a terrible environment for the GOP, driven by suburbanites fleeing the party, Republicans performed even better in rural areas than they did in the 2014 cycle, one of the best in modern history for the party.



However, some Democrats, such as former Iowa Democrat staffer Pat Rynard, believe Democrats should use Iowa as a “training exercise” to better court voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — three states Trump secured in 2016.

“Competing in Iowa, if nothing else, should be a great training exercise for Democrats to win in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. If you can win over some of the swing voters here, you can win them over there,” he said, according to Politico.

“So even if the Democratic nominee doesn’t come back to Iowa in the fall, they’ve at least learned some key lessons here that will help them win those other states—and hopefully, the Electoral College,” he added.

The current RealClearPolitics averages show Trump defeating Joe Biden (D), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the Hawkeye State.

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www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/unexpected-joy-trump-rally-iowa-109864

The unexpected joy at a Trump rally in Iowa
On the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, the president’s fans were in a celebratory mood. Meanwhile, somewhere there was a Democratic race taking place.

DES MOINES, Iowa — I had not been to a Trump rally since the 2016 campaign. And the first thing I noticed Thursday night when Donald Trump and Mike Pence spoke at Drake University in Des Moines was how much more joyous the event was for his supporters than what I remember from four years ago.

In 2016, perhaps because Republicans were out of power and Trump was running purely against the system, his crowds often had an undertone of anger that bordered on menacing. But with Trump in power, presiding over peace and prosperity, on the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, and dominating the news when it should be the Democratic candidates’ moment to shine, his fans seemed in a celebratory mood.

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A fire marshal prevented many reporters from getting inside the event, so I watched Trump and Pence on a giant screen outside in 32 degree weather with several hundred Trump-loving-Iowans. They danced and raised their hands over their MAGA hats when The Village People’s “YMCA” played. They joined arms and screamed along to the chorus of Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA. Even for Iowa it was an overwhelmingly white crowd. But it was also reflective of the total takeover of the GOP by Trump in that it was old and young, and blue and white collar. A group of female college students from Iowa State took selfies and danced. When Trump mentioned his reelection, a bidding war erupted: “Four more years!”, “Twelve more years!”, “Thirty more years of Trump!”


A thousand miles away Trump’s trial was still going on, and Democratic senators were seized by one question: What happens if the Senate adopts the view that withholding security assistance to a foreign ally at war until the ally slimes a political rival isn’t an abuse of power?

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President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a rally at Drake University Jan. 30, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO

At the Des Moines rally impeachment was treated by Trump and his fans as something to mock. Trump went on a long tangent about how the Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and even Andrew Johnson impeachments were “dark” times in American history. In contrast, Trump said, “This is a happy period for us.”

On the eve of his likely acquittal and days before Democrats begin deciding on the person they will nominate to try to defeat him, it’s worth pondering whether there’s something to Trump’s statement. Why was everyone so happy?

There are a few serious reasons.

The first is that impeachment may end up dramatically expanding the power of the executive branch at a time when Trump and his supporters are instinctually in favor of giving him more authority and less accountability.


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Impeachment has rallied the GOP to defend executive branch obstruction of Congress and a revisionist constitutional argument that places previously shocking behavior outside of the impeachment remedy.

The end result of both the Mueller probe and the Adam Schiff impeachment is essentially a Republican Party endorsement of what might be called the Fifth Avenue rule: almost nothing Trump does can have consequences while he is in office. Mueller refused to indict Trump, despite finding evidence he obstructed justice, because of a Department of Justice policy — not a law, just an internal rule — against indicting sitting presidents. You don’t indict presidents, you impeach them, the theory went. But then Republicans yawned at both the statutory crimes that Mueller documented and the more general abuse of power alleged by the House managers over Trump’s Ukraine caper. The result is undoubtedly a far more powerful President Trump.

Shortly after Trump finished speaking Thursday night in Iowa, Schiff made this point at the Senate trial, pointing out that it was the day after the release of the Mueller report that Trump had his infamous call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump was previously protected by a no-indictment policy at DOJ. Now he will also be protected by a new Dershowitz-inspired, no-removal-from-office policy in the Senate, Schiff argued. “What do you think he will do the day after he’s acquitted here?” Schiff asked.

The second result of impeachment is that it has blotted out the Democratic nomination race for weeks. January would normally be a period of saturation coverage for a party’s candidates. Four years ago, Trump used the excitement of the GOP’s rollercoaster primary to promote himself endlessly on cable news. But the primaries this year have not been able to compete with impeachment. Two of the Democratic candidates who generate the most interest and enthusiasm have sat silently on the Senate floor for two weeks. It’s difficult to quantify, but here in Iowa there is something listless about the race in this final week that is different than in previous cycles when the Iowa finale was the most important story in the world. Biden’s Iowa events are small and subdued. The senators, meanwhile, have sent lower-wattage surrogates: a daughter (Klobuchar), a wife (Sanders), a dog (Warren).

Supporters at a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa
President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a rally at Drake University on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO

The final weekend before the Iowa caucuses will likely be dominated by news of Trump’s Thursday rally, which featured some juvenile attacks on Biden (“sleepy Joe”) and Buttigieg (Trump mocked his name), and Trump’s acquittal in the Senate. Both will come at the expense of the Democratic candidates themselves. With some help from congressional Democrats, Trump has practically taken over the Iowa caucuses.

Finally, though this is less clear, impeachment has intensified support for Trump. At about 45% his approval rating is still dismal for a president presiding over a growing economy. But his campaign and the Republican National Committee report increased fundraising, and impeachment has galvanized his supporters, who almost universally see impeachment as a story of Trump being victimized by ruthless Democrats. And in the Trump era that kind of negative partisanship — hatred of the opposition as much as love of your candidate — is the glue that holds Trumpism together.

As Trump began talking about how the Green New Deal would “destroy our wonderful cows” and a thermometer conveniently next to the Jumbotron dipped below freezing, I left the rally.

On the way out a woman was hawking brick-shaped squishies for two dollars a piece.

“What would I do with those?” a Trump fan asked her.

“Strengthen your voting hand or chuck ‘em at a libtard,” she said. “For two bucks you can’t go wrong, man.”

“OK, I’ll take two.”

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Rush Limbaugh's take on this:

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/02/03/ryan-lizza-goes-to-a-trump-rally-discovers-joy-2/


RUSH: This is from Politico. This is Ryan Lizza. And this may be one of my favorite stories of the weekend. Ryan Lizza went to Des Moines. He went to a Trump rally. Do you realize how few Democrats, elected Democrats, Washington Democrats, DNC kind of Democrats, do you realize how few of them have actually ever been to a Trump rally? You could probably count them on one hand. And I’m not exaggerating.

They watch these things, if they watch, from afar on TV, and they mock them and they make fun of the people there. And they laugh and make fun of Trump. And they look at these crowds, three-day crowds of 75,000 to a hundred thousand people wanting into a 10,000-seat the venue. And somehow they tell themselves it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just Looney Tunes. It’s just white supremacists or white nationalists or a bunch of racist pigs or a bunch of chauvinists, however they characterize and mock Trump voters.



They don’t go. In fact, in these four years they’ve yet to endeavor, even their political consultants, the people they pay to help ’em win elections have not endeavored to find out who Trump voters really are and why. So Ryan Lizza, a reporter for Politico, he went to one. He went to the rally in Des Moines.

Headline: “The Unexpected Joy at a Trump Rally in Iowa — On the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, the president’s fans were in a celebratory mood. Meanwhile, somewhere there was a Democratic race taking place.” Let me give you some pull quotes from this piece.

[Olivia Nuzzi said on Twitter] “Something you notice at Trump campaign events is, for his supporters, these are safe spaces where they can relax. They tailgate. They make new friends. The speech is largely besides the point.” No, it’s not beside the point.

But no matter. Ryan Lizza observed the joy, the joy of attendees at a Trump rally in Iowa last week. “With Trump in power, presiding over peace and prosperity, on the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment … his fans seemed in a celebratory mood.”

With Trump in power presiding over peace and prosperity, “on the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, his fans seemed in a celebratory mood.” By the way, there it is. “Presiding over peace and prosperity.” That’s the Drive-By Media. They know. They know. If there were a Democrat, peace and prosperity would be the only thing you’d be seeing characterizing the Democrat administration. Except there can never be peace and prosperity in America with the Democrat Party in charge as it is currently constituted.

You doubt me? Take a look at any Democrat seeking the Democrat Party nomination, what are they promising to do? Dismantle all of this. Dismantling all of this that’s creating what ought to be a new normal, a new normal not of permanent decline, not of America’s best days are behind us. Why shouldn’t these three, now going on four years of economic revival, why shouldn’t these become the new normal?

So peace and prosperity, everybody in a celebratory mood. “At the Des Moines rally impeachment was treated by Trump and his fans as something to mock. Trump went on a long tangent about how the Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and even Andrew Johnson impeachments were ‘dark’ times in American history. In contrast, Trump said, ‘This is a happy period for us.’ … The second result of impeachment is that it has blotted out the Democratic nomination race for weeks.”

Boy, is that ever true. Have these people stepped in it or what? They’ve taken their own… Actually, when you get down to it, it may be an unintended plus that their campaign has been overshadowed by this, ’cause fewer and fewer people know the radical nature of it. But that’s about to change. The point is, Ryan Lizza goes out and he finds a bunch of happy people, people that are experiencing joy.

There isn’t any joy in official Washington. There hasn’t been in 3-1/2 or more years. In fact, on the Democrat Party side, the left side — and, folks, I’m not saying this because it’s rote. It’s really true. There isn’t any joy, on average, any day for American liberals five years ago, 10 years ago, yesterday, tomorrow. Liberalism is constitutionally, foundationally incapable of providing joy for people because it’s rooted in grievance.



It’s rooted in anger, misery, and unhappiness and the false promises to fix all that. So this guy finally takes the plunge, braves a Trump rally. He doesn’t find angry white supremacists, white nationalists. He doesn’t find any anger at all. He finds people loving life, living the dream, enjoying themselves and where they are, enjoying each other.

Stop and think. That must be so odd, so unique for these people that an entire news article was written about it. As if joy and peace and prosperity and meeting new friends and having a great time making new friends — that’s so unusual that it is worth writing a story about.

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Rush nailed it. Hoping he beats the cancer.

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www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/02/03/van-jones-iowa-caucus-delay-a-debacle-90-white-caucus-not-viable/

former Obama adviser Van Jones declared Monday night the Iowa caucus delay on results was a “debacle.”

Jones said, “This is starting to feel like possibility a real debacle where if there is some technical problems they are not disclosing we could be very late on this.”


He added, “I just think that the idea of the caucus has failed to meet the viability threshold. The idea of the caucus itself has failed to meet the viability threshold. We have all been saying the whole time why Iowa in the first place? It’s 90 precent white. When you have a party as diverse as this to be in a state this non-diverse is terrible. People ought to vote and go home. I don’t like caucus in the first place but then if you can’t even deliver on your one job…You only have one job Iowa.”

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Bret Baier: Story County, Precinct 101. Guy says, “I’ve been on hold for over an hour to report the results. We have six delegates. I’ve been on hold on the phone to call in the results for over an hour…

Martha MacCallum: Here’s another one… How about this one from Polk County. Precinct chairs are being advised to take pictures of the results and then text them over to the Polk County executive director. Who is then driving them to the headquarters according to a Democratic operative. (Laughter)

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Proof he was right:

fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/254963/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

If you’re the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register would not release the much-anticipated final version of its Iowa Poll (conducted in conjunction with CNN and Selzer & Co.). The Buttigieg campaign got word that at least one survey respondent had been read an incomplete questionnaire that did not include Buttigieg’s name. “While this appears to be isolated to one surveyor, that could not be confirmed with certainty,” the executive editor of the paper wrote, and acting with an abundance of caution, they declined to release the poll at all.

Nevertheless, a tweet made the rounds that night purporting to give the poll’s results, and after doing some reporting around this, FiveThirtyEight can confirm that it contains the correct final findings of the unreleased Iowa poll: Sanders 22 percent, Warren 18 percent, Buttigieg 16 percent, Biden 13 percent. Imagine the news cycle that would have been, with national front-runner Biden making such a poor showing in the last, highest-profile poll before the caucuses.

So, the Democrats are trying to game the Iowa Caucus as they do the general elections & it’s not working.

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amp.dailycaller.com/2020/02/03/msnbcs-nicole-wallace-trump-enemy

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace referred to President Donald Trump as “the enemy” Monday, urging Democrats against succumbing to internal divisions.

Wallace said if Democrats “pick an automobile” as their candidate, she “will vote for it” over Trump.

Wallace made the comments after two of her guests, MSNBC commentator Jason Johnson and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders adviser Nina Turner, disagreed over whether it was fair to describe former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as “an oligarch.”

“Can I say something? Jason Johnson is a frequent guest on my show. I think this is a really important debate and I’m really glad you didn’t let it get boiled down to the use of a word. It is not about a word. Here’s the other — and I understand different views about the system. The enemy is the guy in the Oval Office who thinks there are good people on both sides in Charlottesville,” said Wallace.

“The enemy is the guy in the Oval Office who got a permission slip to cheat in presidential elections. The enemy is a guy who calls his generals dopes and losers. I am nauseous when I see Democrats fight amongst themselves,” she added. (RELATED: MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur Wowed By ‘Stunning’ Crowds In Iran, Where Authorities Reportedly Forced Attendance)

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Hmmm, Russian collusion, etc?

www.dailywire.com/news/soviet-spy-congratulated-bernie-on-prior-election-win-met-in-his-office-report-says

Soviet Spy Congratulated Bernie On Prior Election Win, Met In His Office, Report Says

A spy from the former communist superpower, the Soviet Union, congratulated socialist Bernie Sanders in March 1983 for winning re-election as mayor of Burlington, Vermont and for meeting with him in Sanders’ office.

“The documents from the Sanders archives include a letter from Soviet Embassy First Secretary Vadim Kuznetsov in March 1983, congratulating Sanders on his reelection as mayor and thanking Sanders for receiving him in Sanders’s office,” The Washington Post reported on Monday. “Kuznetsov had been in Burlington to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament at the University of Vermont a few days earlier. Neither Sanders nor conference organizers appear to have read a 1976 Time magazine article that identified Kuznetsov as a member of a ‘Soviet intelligence squad’ posing as diplomats to infiltrate U.S. politics.”


The TIME Magazine article that the Post linked to stated: “Posing as diplomats, embassy officials and newsmen, Soviet intelligence agents have been conducting a determined effort to get classified information on Capitol Hill by bribing or compromising staff members in key positions. TIME has learned that in more than a dozen cases in the last decade or so the FBI has stepped in to ‘control’ the relationship, fearing a staffer might begin giving out restricted data.”

The letter that Kuznetsov sent Sanders stated:

Dear Mr. Sanders,

Please accept my sincere congratulations on your re-election to the post of Mayor of Burlington.

I have been following with a great interest the final stage of this mayoral race which attracted a lot of coverage by the national news media.

Thank you for receiving me in your office on February 3.

With best wishes,

Vadim Kuznetsov

Democrat strategist Zac Petkanas posted a copy of the letter and tweeted: “For the love of all that’s holy. The piece links to the actual letter a Soviet official sent Bernie Sanders congratulating him on getting elected. Can you IMAGINE what Trump would do with this?”

Hoover Institution research fellow Paul R. Gregory, who has a PhD in economics from Harvard, explained in an article last year that Sanders was a socialist because there was little to no difference between socialists believes and what Sanders believes as a self-described “Democratic Socialist.”

Gregory wrote:

Sanders has spent a long political career obfuscating his true political beliefs. The media rarely pushes back on his standard platitudes, such as “we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.” His two-minute video, promising to explain his brand of socialism, leaves the viewer clueless, probably deliberately. Sanders insists that he is not a “socialist” but a “Democratic Socialist,” as if the difference is self-explanatory. When pressed further about his Democratic Socialism, he resorts to filibustering about the Scandinavian-like paradise of free medicine and education, guaranteed jobs, livable wages, and other free things he intends to introduce when elected. He does not bother to note that the Nordic states rank among the most free-enterprise economies of the globe.

Gregory noted that Sanders is “fully on board with the [Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)] narratives of capitalist exploitation and the need to organize” and that there is no distance between what Sanders believes and what DSA promotes.

Gregory notes that according to official DSA literature, Democratic Socialists believe:

First, Democratic Socialism wants more than an expansive welfare state.

Second, capitalism is a zero-sum game in which the rich get richer by making the poor and working class worse off.

Third, the poor, working class, and other underdogs can overturn the capitalist order only if they are organized.

Fourth and most important, capital must be publicly owned because there is no real democracy with private ownership of capital.
Gregory noted that there was essentially no difference between what DSA believes and what socialists believe.

Gregory concluded:

According to CNN files, Sanders advocated in the 1970s the nationalization of most major industries. According to Sanders then: “The oil industry, and the entire energy industry, should be owned by the public and used for the public good – not for additional profits for billionaires.” When asked recently whether his position on nationalization has changed, Sanders pivoted to his “free stuff” filibuster. No answer.

What Sanders advocated a half-century back is much less important than his current legislative initiatives. Let’s face it: Sanders’ signature Medicare-for-all, as laid out in his Senate bill, nationalizes all medical care. Private health insurance and employer insurance disappear and private providers must reorganize as non-profits and/or governmental organizations. A massive government bureaucracy determines our medical care – a sort of super VA. If Sanders is prepared to nationalize one fifth of the economy, he should have no qualms about doing the same to his loathed private energy and finance sectors.

Marx declared that a socialist revolution would be required to part the capitalists from their capital. Democratic Socialists (DSA and Sanders) see a different path to what they consider true democracy: Organize the poor, the working class, and all other oppressed groups into what James Madison called an “overbearing majority.” Such a coalition would have enough power to transfer capital to the state by “democratic means.”

During an interview on Sunday, President Donald Trump said the following about Sanders: “Well, I think he’s a communist. I mean you know, look. I think of communism when I think of Bernie.”

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www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-slams-dems-unmitigated-disaster-iowa-nothing-works-just-they-ran-country

Trump Slams Dems' "Unmitigated Disaster" In Iowa: "Nothing Works, Just Like They Ran The Country"

President Trump just can't stop winning.
Not only did Dems fail to win enough Republican votes to call John Bolton to testify at the president's impeachment trial in the Senate (which so far has attracted a tiny fraction of the attention paid to the Senate trial of former President Clinton), but in one of the greatest unforced errors in American political history, they also botched the Iowa caucus, helping to restore the widespread cynicism that permeated the 2016 contest.


And since Trump isn't the kind of politician to resist taking a victory lap, he did just that Tuesday morning in a scathing tweet reminding Americans why they shouldn't trust the Democrats to run the country.

Because the real winners of the Iowa Caucus was...the Republicans?

We suspect we haven't heard the last about the Iowa caucus (which Trump won handily in 2016) from President Trump's twitter feed. Tying the Iowa disaster to the botched rollout of the Obamacare exchanges in 2014 is exactly the political narrative that Trump and his team will need to deploy if they want to clinch a second term in November.

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www.zerohedge.com/political/thousands-furious-supporters-claim-iowa-caucus-rigged-against-bernie

Chaos In Iowa: Thousands Of Furious Supporters Claim Iowa Caucus "Rigged" Against Bernie

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www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/03/joe-biden-helped-launch-business-for-son-in-law-from-the-oval-office-repeatedly-briefed-investors-privately/

Joe Biden Helped Launch Business for Son-in-Law from the Oval Office, Repeatedly Briefed Investors Privately

Former Vice President Joe Biden went to great lengths to boost his son-in-law’s health care company while in the White House, briefing investors on the firm’s merits and even arranging access to the Oval Office. The bombshell revelations are detailed in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite — a new book by Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute.

In June 2011, Biden arranged a private meeting for two StartUp Health executives with then-President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. At the time of the meeting, the company had been around for only a few weeks. It had yet to finalize its business plan, let alone develop a website.



The meeting was all the more surprising since StartUp Health was not proposing any new or radical ideas for health care, at least not to the degree of warranting a meeting with the nation’s commander-in-chief.
“Their status as a health care incubator was hardly unique,” Schweizer writes in Profiles in Corruption. “In fact, there were thirty-one similar companies operating in the state of California alone, and another eleven in the state of New York.”
As Schweizer outlines, the only significant factor that set StartUp Health apart from others in its field was that its chief medical officer, Howard Krein, was engaged to Biden’s daughter, Ashley. Krein, a head and neck doctor by training, seemed to have become an integral part of Biden’s inner-circle even before he officially wed into the family in June 2012.

One day after StartUp Health’s executives met with Obama in the Oval Office, the company got a bigger boost from the administration when it was featured at a health care tech conference put on by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). How the company managed to score HHS attention, while still in the stages of infancy, remains unclear, but it is likely Biden played a role.
Regardless, the back-to-back events gave StartUp Health a launch trajectory unavailable to other companies in the health care field, let alone other industries. Biden’s influence ensured that StartUp Health set out with “the winds to our backs,” as one of the company’s co-founders succinctly put it.
The former vice president’s efforts on his son-in-law’s behalf were not just confined to the company’s launch. As Profiles in Corruption details, Biden went out of his way to ensure StartUp Health executives were given unparalleled access to the White House during the Obama presidency. The company’s leadership, which mostly consisted of Krein’s family and friends, frequently met with administration officials not only in private but also in public.


“According to 2011 White House visitors’ logs, Howard Krein attended the China State Dinner, a White House Staff barbecue, and President Obama’s Motown event,” Schweizer writes. “His brother, Steven, had half a dozen other meetings with White House officials.”
Biden’s efforts on behalf of the company expansively increased during his final year in office, both internationally and at home.

First, the vice president took Krein with him on Air Force Two to a conference on regenerative health hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican in April 2016.
“Conference attendees included a who’s who of scientific researchers in medicine from around the world,” Schweizer notes.
Then in May, Krein was tasked with introducing his father-in-law at a major health industry data conference hosted by the Obama administration. The opportunity provided free publicity to the company as it planned to expand its portfolio.
In October 2016, Biden appeared alongside StartUp Health’s CEO at the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit. During his remarks, Biden praised StartUp Health as an innovator in the health care market and claimed companies like it would be essential to winning the battle against cancer.
Apart from arranging access and touting the company in public, Biden also took steps in the waning days of the Obama administration to boost investment in StartUp Health. In January 2017, Biden made one of his final appearances as vice president at a festival hosted by the company in San Francisco, California. At the event, Biden lauded StartUp Health’s success to 250 attendees, including members and prospective donors.
Ironically, at the same time he was working to promote his son-in-law’s business, Biden was also claiming his children had chosen careers unlikely to make them rich.


“I wish my kids would become wealthy,” Biden told the International Association of Fire Fighters in July 2012 while lambasting the economic policies of then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Profile in Corruption outlines how Biden’s children and other members of his family did just that while he was in political office.

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Right on cue, we must change the system because it’s broken:

www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/02/03/julian-castro-caucus-process-broken-not-the-way-that-we-should-do-our-democracy/

While speaking to ABC News during their 2020 Iowa caucus coverage on Monday, Julián Castro, a surrogate for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to the delay in receiving results from the Iowa caucuses by stating that “This is not the way that we should do our democracy, not the way that we should start the nomination process for the president of the United States.”

Castro said, “We also know that this has been a total mess today. The fact that we still don’t have reliable results and it’s about midnight eastern, we can see for own eyes that this caucus process is broken. This is not the way that we should do our democracy, not the way that we should start the nomination process for the president of the United States.”
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Hey Julián, read Art IV, Sec 4. The Founders did NOT create a Democracy - They created a "Republican Form of Government". In fact they despised Democracy:

"Democracy is the most vile form of government. ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." — James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the U. S.

“We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Signatory to the U. S. Constitution, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

“A simple democracy is the devil's own government.” Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father & Signatory of the Declaration of Independence

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few.” John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“A democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption, and carry desolation in their way.” Fisher Ames (1758-1808) Founding Father and framer of the First Amendment to the Constitution

“We have seen the tumults of democracy terminate, in France, as they have everywhere terminated, in despotism.” Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Statesman, Diplomat, writer of the final draft of the Constitution

"In democracy … there are commonly tumults and disorders … Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth.” Noah Webster (1758-1843) Father of the Dictionary and an American Patriot

“But between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” John Marshall (1755-1835) House Member, Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate (lost all regard to good principles, virtue or decency, dashed, broken or ruined in morals, shameless in wickedness) are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." Joseph Story (1779-1845) Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice & influential commentators on the U.S. Constitution

“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.” Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

Andrew Jackson was the, founder of the Democratic Party and the first President to be elected from the Democratic Party (1829–1837).

The Democrats of today immersed themselves in the revolutionist socialist Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital” anti-capitalist ideas that stymies free market economic grown and freedom of the individual and instead have created a strict elitist class (Bolshevist) to rule the citizenry.

It was the Socialist President Woodrow Wilson and his cronies who systematically began to changed our Republican Form of Government to a Democracy. He lead the Democrats in creating the “Income Tax” and the taxation of “Inheritance” pursuant to Karl Marx’s Ten Planks of his Communist Manifesto.

When one examines the Amendments beginning with the16th all the Amendment since were adopted during Democrat presidency and administrations i.e., the 16th - Wilson; 17th- Wilson, 18th Wilson, 19th Wilson, 20th F.D. Roosevelt; 21st Roosevelt, 22nd Truman; 23rd Kennedy; 24rd Johnson; 25th Johnson; and 26th Democrats. All of these Amendment to our Constitution in combination changed our Government from a Republic to MAJORITY rule.

Today the Karl Marx’s Democrats are hell bent to eliminate the Electoral System so as to allow the heavily populated states such as California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and the North Eastern states to completely control the election process and to hell with the smaller states like Idaho, Montana, Arkansas, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, etc.

A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC is what we were GIVEN. It is up to US to keep it.

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thefederalist.com/2020/02/04/as-dem-caucus-faceplants-trump-wins-gops-with-97/

As Dem Caucus Faceplants, Trump Wins GOP’s With 97%
Last night, we saw the Democrats in disarray and President Trump cruising among Republicans.
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 By David Marcus
Democrats cast the first votes in the 2020 Democratic Primary Monday in Iowa. So far, so good — the casting of the votes went fine, but the counting of the votes? Not so much. In a display of incompetence stunning even for the Democratic Party, technical difficulties caused by an app malfunction meant that even as all awoke this morning, there were no results.

Not exactly no results, actually. In the Republican caucus that uses a simpler app-free system of voting, the numbers flowed in and quickly showed Donald Trump had won 97 percent of the vote. The other 3 percent was split evenly between Never Trumpers William Weld and John Walsh. Both this result and the non-result for the Democrats tell us a lot about the current political moment.


The biggest takeaway from the Democratic debacle is that whoever the winners were saw the shine rubbed off their prize significantly. First of all, under the old system in 2016, the results were in by 10 p.m. Eastern Time, allowing for close to prime time victory speeches and a chance to spike the football.

The delay also meant there are no blaring headlines trumpeting the winner in today’s newspapers. This would already be bad enough, but is compounded by the fact that by the time we know the results today, we will already be moving into Senate impeachment speeches this afternoon, the State of the Union address this evening, and the acquittal vote tomorrow. RIP news cycle, we hardly knew ya.

If, as many suspect, Bernie Sanders was among last night’s big winners, the irony is that it was he and his supporters, who felt cheated by the process in 2016, who demanded the changes in the process that led to this entire unfortunate situation.

Also, as bad as this is for the winner or winners, it’s arguably even better for the losers, especially if one of them, as suspected, is Joe Biden. But by the time we come up for air Thursday, Iowa will seem a distant memory as we move into New Hampshire, where hopefully there are Democrats who know how to count.

On the other side, the 97 percent tally for Donald Trump may not seem like a big deal. After all, he is an incumbent president who is popular in the party. But we should look at it within the full context of the last three years. The reason Trump had opposition at all was that his opponents bought into the notion that there is some sizable GOP constituency that wants an alternative to the uncouth commander in chief.

One can hardly blame them. If we watch most cable or network news, read most of the country’s biggest newspapers, and even peruse some “conservative” outlets, we see much dismay at Trump and his ways. If so many Republicans in the pundit class are troubled, so must be many voters who they supposedly influence, no? No.

The GOP takeaway from the shellacking of Never Trump is that it is a hopeless enterprise with a tenuous relationship to reality. There are no throngs of Republican voters yearning for a better choice. They like the president, they like his accomplishments, and they don’t care about the sham impeachment.

In this tale of two caucuses, we see one party in disarray and another firing on all cylinders. That, more than anything, is the big takeaway from this year’s Iowa caucuses.

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Meanwhile, in neighboring Wisconsin, the top Democrat officials working on the 2020 DNC Convention in Milwaukee were suspended on Monday and put under investigation.

The convention managers were accused of a toxic work culture by convention workers.

www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2020/02/03/dnc-host-committee-leaders-sidelined-amid-probe-toxic-work-culture/4645443002/

The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee’s host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.

In a letter to staff obtained by the Journal Sentinel, the board said it had retained an attorney to investigate “concerns about the work environment” for the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee.

During the investigation, Liz Gilbert, president of the host committee, will not be in the office and “will not have direct contact with staff,” the letter says. Adam Alonso, the chief of staff for the group, has been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the probe.

The two have previously come under criticism for continuing to do work for New Jersey Democrats while leading the Host Committee full time. The New Jersey Democratic Party dumped Alonso from his $15,000-per-month consulting gig late Monday.

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Yang blames Democrat mess on President Trump:

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