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the first nominating state instead of IowaGOP Sen. Joni Ernst said that Democrats "gave middle America the middle finger" by making South Carolina the first state to nominate Democratic candidates for presidential races rather than Iowa.
Ernst's comments came on "Fox News Sunday" on Sunday, The Hill reported. Ernst told host Shannon Beam that she was "sorely disappointed" that the DNC voted to remove and make South Carolina have the party's first caucus for nominating a presidential candidate.
"I'm so proud that we're going to hear from more voices voices of those who simply yearn to be heard. To be seen," Donna Brazile, a former acting chair of the DNC said of the caucus move to South Carolina, according to the Des Moines Register.
The DNC's decision to move the first-in-the-nation caucus from Iowa to South Carolina will mark the first time the caucus has been in a state other than Iowa since 1927. The RNC has also held its own first-in-the-nation caucus in Iowa since 1976.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-joni-ernst-says-democrats-gave-middle-america-the-middle-finger-by-voting-to-make-south-carolina-the-first-nominating-state-instead-of-iowa/ar-AA14Td3M
You're not a Democrat so what do you care?
hatrack
(59,704 posts)emulatorloo
(44,426 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,427 posts)1 the last Iowa caucus was so fucked up, I still dont know who won and by how much.
2 Caucuses suck and are extremely un-democratic
3 The Democratic Party should do away with all caucuses.
emulatorloo
(44,426 posts)yardwork
(62,077 posts)RandySF
(61,811 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,268 posts)Initech
(100,431 posts)And murder half of Congress to keep Orange Man Baby in charge. I don't care about anything they have to offer after that.
NBachers
(17,351 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)montanacowboy
(6,155 posts)n/t
CurtEastPoint
(18,791 posts)elleng
(132,401 posts)'middle America the middle finger' by voting to make South Carolina the first nominating state.'
FirstLight
(13,481 posts)Then it's not all about pouring all the resources and handshakes into ONE place...
And why should Dems and Repugs have the same state be a first voting state?
IDK I guess I'm just thinking there would be less chance for bacrkoom deals and greasing the gears between elections if the state was random.
old guy
(3,285 posts)with candidates coming and going, and speeches and motels and on and on. Joni sees most of that going away.
Greybnk48
(10,215 posts)Fuck you Joni Ernst! Feels good.
LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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Freethinker65
(10,209 posts)Why should one State, or early States, get the same lead up attention and campaign money from potential candidates every Presidential primary season?
W_HAMILTON
(7,930 posts)This article seems to imply that...