After nearly 12 hours of waiting for results to come in from the Iowa Democrat caucuses, there’s no way to sugar coat this: the caucuses are a total and complete disaster for Democrats.

.@AP reported last month that Iowa and Nevada were planning to use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands of caucus sites. The technology was intended to make counting easier, but raised concerns over hacking or glitches. https://t.co/634k1vhm31 — The Associated Press (@AP) February 4, 2020

On those technical difficulties...



"We are on paper in many cases," not the app, as was planned, said one Iowa Democrat. "The whole system largely broke." — Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider) February 4, 2020

Politico

An app created by a tech firm run by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is taking heat for the unprecedented delay in reporting Democratic caucus results from Iowa. https://t.co/3IkwzqWrlD — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 4, 2020

LA Times

Meanwhile Democrat operatives and pundits are venting their frustration:

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews remarked, “Democrats can't even get a 3 car funeral organized.”

CNN’s Van Jones called it a “real debacle.”

Biden knows he collapsed. That’s why his campaign is pulling out all the stops to prevent the results from being released. https://t.co/hH8AOU9YRN — Adam Jentleson 🎈💧🐉 (@AJentleson) February 4, 2020

Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Harry Reid

Nevada Dem federal account paid Shadow $58k in August, Iowa Dems state account paid Shadow $63,183 in two payments over Nov & Dec, suggesting app wasn't developed until just months ago? Both caucus states. Shadow is a spin-off from PACRONYM, a new Dem dark money/superPAC hybrid. — Lee Fang (@lhfang) February 4, 2020

The Intercept

So while Democrats like “Mayor Cheat” Buttigieg try and take a victory lap this morning, CBS’s Ed O’Keefe pointed out Buttigieg’s glaring hypocrisy: For a candidate who has talked about his concerns with “misinformation” and “someone who has campaigned on his belief in science and facts, to be spreading incomplete facts is pretty astounding.”

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Bottom Line: President Trump is the only one who can claim victory heading out of Iowa. How on earth can the Democrat Party which is bent on a total government takeover of health care credibly claim it will work if they can’t even report the results of a caucus in a timely manner?

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