As of Thursday morning, two days after the formal conclusion of the Iowa caucus, the controversy over the election’s still-unconfirmed results persisted, with an even larger contingent of Americans wholly convinced that Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders was being cheated out of a rightful victory.
Of course, Sanders himself was too busy attacking President Donald Trump to even notice that he was potentially being cheated …
Nevertheless, the first piece of evidence was the Iowa Democrat Party’s continued inability to tabulate the results of caucus. How hard could it possibly be, wondered the president’s son Eric Trump:
There are 1,681 caucus sites in Iowa. Three college kids with a rudimentary excel spreadsheet could tabulate the vote while eating a pizza. The fact that the Democrats can’t pull this off with the eyes of the nation watching reeks of corrruption. #BernieIsGettingScrewed (again)
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) February 6, 2020
The second piece of evidence were reports that something fishy was afoot in Iowa’s Polk County and Blackhawk County.
In tweets posted Wednesday afternoon, Nate Cohn of The New York Times wrote that “it seems” as if locals in Polk County who voted for Sanders were being marked down as having voted for candidates Deval Patrick or Tom Steyer:
I have some questions about the reliability of these results.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 5, 2020
it seems the new results have entered many likely Sanders results in Polk County as Deval Patrick or Steyer.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 5, 2020
Patrick you’ll note is up to 21 SDE, and that covers most of Buttigieg’s expanded lead in my initial tweet (if you remember it)https://t.co/ScWQUecTRb
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 5, 2020
However, he later claimed the issue had been “remedied”:
Updated results from the IADP appear to show this issue remedied. Buttigieg lead at 24 SDEs (down from 28 at their last proper update, and down from 48 during the error) at 85% reporting. Still looking, but obvious errors gone; Sanders back in Des Moines/Waterloo etc.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 5, 2020
Sanders’ campaign officials weren’t pleased nonetheless.
Bill Neidhardt, Sanders’ “Iowa deputy state director,” responded to the controversy by noting that Polk County is home to Des Moines, which boast a notable contingent of black, Hispanic and Muslim voters:
Our Des Moines efforts were centered on turning out latino, black and muslim voters.
This is disturbing to say the least. https://t.co/JOARLFuDZB
— Bill Neidhardt (@BNeidhardt) February 5, 2020
Reports also emerged of the same thing happening in Blackhawk County, where votes for Sanders being allocated to Patrick.
“Around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, the party sent out a tweet indicating a ‘minor correction was needed’ but did not elaborate what exactly that error was,” local station KWWL reported. “At roughly the same time, Black Hawk County Supervisor Chris Schwartz said delegates for Senator Bernie Sanders were incorrectly given to Deval Patrick.”
Schwartz’ tweet may be seen below:
The state party is now being forced to walk back their error of giving @BernieSanders delegates to @DevalPatrick who received zero votes in Black Hawk County. Press can dm me. https://t.co/yaS8pXvYM7
— Chris Schwartz (@SchwartzForIowa) February 5, 2020
This issue was also allegedly rectified, not that it did much to stem growing anger at the Iowa Democrat Party from those convinced the party was trying to rig the caucus against Sanders.
Look:
So Iowa Dems get caught undercutting Bernie in Black Hawk county and we only know because Black Hawk county released their info on their own? And now Iowa Dems are forced to fix. This is out of this world.
— Secular Talk (@KyleKulinski) February 5, 2020
I don’t see how that’s not verified proof of election rigging
— Hoss Curtis (@Syzzix) February 5, 2020
I could have told you this would happen 3 years ago! These people have no moral foundation and no scruples about cheating! More to come throughout the Democratic primary race. It will probably get worse and be more egregious. Especially on Super Tuesday for a brokered convention.
— Gabriel O’Brien (@Abramskitten) February 5, 2020
They want to cheat him. We played by the rules for 4 years, and after all the insults and smears we actually cobble together a real movement with zero national help they want to just cheat and tell us to deal with it. No dice. We’re winning one way or another #BernieOrBurnItDown
— Joe ‘Loud Guy’ Lowden (@JoeLoudGuy) February 5, 2020
Concerns about Sanders being cheated out of a victory were further exacerbated by the fact that though he carried a majority of the popular vote, he was still losing to challenger Pete Buttigieg.
“In terms of raw votes, Sanders leads in by more than 2,500 votes in the final alignment of Iowa caucus-goers, after supporters of non-viable candidates had the chance to realign at their precincts on Monday night,” Politico confirmed early Thursday morning.
Yet Buttigieg still boasted a higher proportion of delegates, meaning that as of Thursday morning, he was still the expected (and in many cases preferred) winner of the Iowa caucus.
Meanwhile, Sanders’ volunteers had begun calling for other volunteers and campaign officials to be on the lookout for additional “discrepancies” and accusing the Iowa Democrat Party of purposefully stealing delegates from their candidate.
Look:
EVERYONE WHO WORKED A PRECINCT FOR BERNIE SHOULD DOUBLECHECK THE @iowademocrats AND @nytimes NUMBERS AND REPORT DISCREPANCIES.
They misreported Polk DM 14, stole one of our two delegates. #CaucusForBernie #caucusforbern #BernieSanders2020 #iowacaucusdisaster #IowaCaucuses
— James Payne (@Banalization) February 5, 2020
As for Sanders himself, instead of addressing the concerns about corruption by the Iowa Democrat Party, he’s been busy attacking the president:
Tomorrow the votes may not be there to impeach Trump. But I’m absolutely confident that in November the votes will be there to beat Donald Trump.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 5, 2020
We just listened to Donald Trump’s third, and what I expect, will be his very last, State of the Union Address. My response: https://t.co/rQhY1wssXq
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 5, 2020
In the year 2020, how can a president of the United States give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change?
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 5, 2020
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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