Posted on 01/20/2024 12:48:06 PM PST by backpacker_c
Top Republican pollster Frank Luntz and Ron DeSantis warned that the low GOP turnout in the Iowa caucuses is a red flag for the party and that if Donald Trump doesn't get 'new voters' then he will lose in the November election.
'Trump is going to have to show that he can get people who didn't vote for him in 2020, he's got to get new voters or he loses,' Luntz told DailyMail.com
'It's a warning sign for the party in November because the turnout was so abysmally low,' the Florida governor said on Friday. 'There's terrible enthusiasm right now.'
Trump's rallies and events are consistently standing room only.
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NTTAWWT /s
Again, people were already there...
They would want to vote for their candidate, if they were there, because Iowa’s delegates are allocated in proportion to the vote.
It may be a warning sign for the party.
But the party is fringe anyway. Independents now dominate. No one cares much about the 2 fringe 27% parties.
Independents more and more will hold seats.
And these Swamp filth types will wake up and discover they are now the worst of all things . . . ignored.
We won. You lost. Discount THIS!
Independents are not moderates. This is Swamp thinking.
Independents do not care about left / right issues. Those are not issues.
The issue is drain the swamp. They are hard core on that issue. About taxes and spending . . . no position. It’s a fringe issue that has no solution at $34T debt.
Within hours of the Iowa results being posted, the DeSantis campaign came out with a public statement complaining that the caucus vote was suppressed by the early media call for Trump.
And now they're saying the "low turnout" is an indication of trouble ahead for Trump?
Which is it, you morons?
Well……….it’s true. True for all three candidates and the Republican Party. We might nominate a person that can’t win even 70% of the party. Hopefully we will run against Biden and not Michelle. This election season is going to be miserable for this country.
I fail to see the logic of the argument, that the turnout was “abysmally low”, and how that would affect the overwhelming support Trump is getting at every side from the entire spectrum of potential and real voters in primaries elsewhere and in the general election.
Luntz may or may not be an idiot, but he is operating from a bias AGAINST Trump that may be coloring his view of just how many people are drawn to the rock-star popularity of that force of nature known as Donald J. Trump.
Trump just has to build on the 74 million or so votes he got in the 2020 election. The Democrat Socialists are generating a large sympathy vote for Trump with their baseless and clumsy attempts to get an indictment against him before the 2024 election.
A caucus is a great measure of enthusiasm and Trump had it…….. with only half of the party.
Luntz is a corrupted, deep-state C###
Do the math.
Trump does not have enough votes to win. He is hated like Hillary was, by the independents.
We shall see in 10 months or so. Hopium will not change reality.
Compare Trump’s caucus vote in ‘24 to his caucus vote in ‘16.
I thought he said Trump was gonna win.
Um - Luntz and DeSantis are aware there was a massive winter snowstorm that day?
In 2016, Iowa turnout for the GOP caucuses was high because it was a hotly contested race. Ted Cruz won with less than 28% of the popular vote. Three candidates got more than 20% of the vote, and nine candidates came out of Iowa with at least one delegate.
In 2024, I got a sense that there was far more interest in the Iowa caucuses outside Iowa than in the state itself.
Assuming there was a lower turnout due to the inclement weather, Trump's voters were the classic "broken glass voter" who was willing to crawl across frigid snow to turn out to vote for their candidate.
If DeSantis didn't do as well, it was because his voters weren't as "broken glass" as Trump's voters were.
-PJ
Ridiculous, show one post where any DeSantis supporter said that. If it's as constant as you claim you should easily be able to find at least two examples in just the last few days, actually, but my guess is there are zero (0) and you just made it up.
DeSantis supporters here have been clear, we're formerTrumpers, because he's moved left, and we're still far on the conservative right. As far as independents go, and even liberals, we think he's courting them a lot more than us.
I can confirm that my caucus had many new faces and I assume they were Trump voters. That said, half of my caucus didn’t support Trump. This is a problem.
Below zero real temp.
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