The way we live now…
Woman stood up in Creston & said it “really upsets me” that Bloomberg skipping Iowa. “It makes us Iowans look like nobodies." South Bend mayor response: "There are only so many tickets out of Iowa…not my place to tel any other campaign what to do." (transcript h/t @PriscillaWT) pic.twitter.com/uoSEQcnYyK
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 25, 2019
In response to @DJJudd about the predominately white pops of Iowa & NH compared to NV & SC, Buttigieg says “certainly each early state has a unique role” & notes that a “strong candidate will be competitive with every different kind of state.” https://t.co/3fbGRrnjBn pic.twitter.com/tdh4fiW7K5
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 25, 2019
They’re not racist-racist! It’s just that things have always been a certain way: Iowa was quadrenially important, and presidents were white. We tried experimenting with that last factor, and things went all to hell! Maybe America (not *them*, of course, but all those other voters) just isn’t ready for a(nother) President who isn’t white, and male!
Such a nice young man, that Mayor Pete…
"Among voters over 65 years of age, Biden dropped from 28 percent in August to 12 percent today, while Buttigieg has vaulted from 2 percent to 17 percent and now leads the field among seniors."https://t.co/9vokhnY7cq
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 26, 2019
Other candidates are gonna be less oblique, of course, because they’ve got their base locked down already:
In Salem NH, Bernie Sanders says “we need to accept” that a faction of Trump supporters are ‘racist and sexist’ and won’t be won over. But, he adds, “The majority of his supporters are probably people who are angry and disgusted at a system that has left them behind.”
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) November 25, 2019
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