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No, The Real “Winner” In The Iowa Caucus Debacle Is Not Bernie Or Buttigieg Or Bloomberg. It’s Trump.
The biggest beneficiary of Democrats in Iowa totally f-ing up is the person who most directly benefits from spreading a message that elections are totally f-ed up…
At least until he’s comfortably won. And that’s Trump.
And in that sense, the abject mess in Iowa is yet another example of the President’s uncanny good luck. Promoting his preferred narrative that elections are a mess, and the Democratic Party is a mess. And by extension, that he can’t possibly legitimately lose.
The only thing perhaps not totally fortuitous for Trump in the Democrats’ blunder in Iowa is it’s happening very early in the campaign, so Democrats — and the Democratic process — should have time to recover. Still, Trump and his pals have something real solid to hang on to already, and they’re not going to let go of it easily. As we saw in endless Tweets and comments from Trump’s allies: “sloppiest train wreck in history. It would be natural for people to doubt the fairness of the process”, and more than a handful from Trump himself: “The Democrats want to run a Country, and they can’t run a Caucus”.
