Iowa Caucus Info

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[Iowa Starting Line @IAStartingLine]

New from @patrynard: For all its flaws, the Iowa Caucus did provide important benefits to the national and local party (even if its downsides outweighed them).

Democrats would be wise to consider how to replicate the good parts of Iowa elsewhere.
https://t.co/a9niytVxQV

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Of course, for 2024 it's moot if Biden runs since there wouldn't be a competitive #iacaucus anyway. And 2028 is a long way away, so lots can happen. But it does seem like it's over. Except for the GOP whose 2024 primary still starts in Iowa. So let's have one more round, folks!

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

The end is nigh, at least for the Democrats as they ditch @IACaucus in favor of states they can win the the General election. The Caucuses have been declared dead before, but never with what seems such finality.

[Jeff Zeleny @jeffzeleny]

So long, Iowa…The DNC has voted to approve a White House plan of moving South Carolina to the front of the line of the 2024 calendar, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire and onto Georgia and Michigan before Super Tuesday. Call it the President Biden re-election protection act.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Read this excellent explainer on what happens after Nov 3, by one of my great friends and mentor, @RUPoliSci Prof Gerry Pomper.
https://t.co/0EcpgQHNq2

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Walking back kill the #iacaucus.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

New: DNC Chair @TomPerez tells me he favors an end to caucuses but there are hurdles to abolishing them.

And he expects the party to review the Iowa and New Hampshire order for future contests, although he stopped short of saying if he wants that changed. https://t.co/N2srfmbv1c

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

This. Dems are not killing #iacaucus tonight.

[Josh Putnam @FHQ]

Sigh. No, that's not what's happening. The rules package the convention will vote on -- the one passed by the convention Rules Committee on July 30 -- does not include any such provision. 1/
https://t.co/FNJDasGqqS

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Pretty sure it isn't actually news that he believes this. It also won't be up to him.

[Christopher Cadelago @ccadelago]

Tom Perez tells @AP that the 2020 caucuses should be the last the party ever holds. https://t.co/O58BeNKYsO

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

This story on the demise of the Sanders campaign (yes, I know he's still "running") and stories like it of other campaigns, reminds me if Tolstoy 's line: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

https://t.co/9ES6BXvMIR

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Been saying this for a while. People are exhausted and just want things to go back to something reasonable. It is one reason why Warren's "big structural change" did not catch on. It was scary. And that was before the virus. "Steady" is what's craved now.

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

I realize this is the wrong app to put this question to, but I wonder how many voters, on the left and the right, just want a return to “normal.” Maybe that’s “establishment.” Maybe that’s “moderate.” Maybe that’s “predictable.” Whatever it is, it will be hard to poll...

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

@JamesPindell Joining a long list of (not) presidents who tried to do the same.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Good for him. The honorable thing to do at this point. Now if only Bloomberg would take the hint.

[Stephanie Kennedy @WordswithSteph]

“Every Democrat is a million times better than Trump. Trump is a disaster.” — @TomSteyer

Billionaire Tom Steyer drops out of Democratic primary race. Steyer vows to continue to support the Dems’ mission to defeat Donald Trump.

#SCprimary2020 https://t.co/yMf6XC6VqQ

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

So it all went well. Just landed at BWI where I started at 6:30 this morning. BWI-ORD-DSM-ORD-BWI. Got my #iacaucus surveys!

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Yep. To me this seems like the solution to the early state problem for the Democrats. NH wouldn't like it, but it makes sense. And IA , NV could keep their caucuses.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Big, if true.

And it's probably true.

[Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn]

Biden gets early calls from the networks based on the exit polls, showing him up nearly 25 pts -- say 45 to 21 or so.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Sitting in a Des Moines McDonald's, next to a group of older folks talking about Bernie Sanders. He's a socialist; he's proud of it, one says incredulously. And he likes Fidel. Another quotes the Bible and adds that the fabric of the country is being torn by people like Bernie.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

@MattDickinson44 questions were a huge part of her shtick in Iowa, especially in the last two months, where she took mostly questions and did a very short stump speeches.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Stopping in to watch State Central Committee certification of #iacaucus results was my bonus for today. Here's why I'm really in Des Moines. Thanks to @SCohen22, @troymprice and other @iowademocrats for facilitating this in-caucus survey. And thanks to voters who filled it out.

[Iowa Caucus Info @IACaucusInfo]

Motion to certify #iacaucus passes @iowademocrats State Central Committee, 22 yes, 13 no. So I think that means the 2020 Iowa Caucuses are finally done.