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TimAlberta
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chief political correspondent @POLITICO, featured in @PoliticoMag | author of NYT best-seller "American Carnage" | talberta@politico.com
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Tim Alberta
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Remember when Warren’s campaign nearly ended before it began when Trump baited her into that DNA test?
Or when Biden talked about wanting to beat up the president? (I’m sure suburban women loved that)
Now you hear the champagne popping at 1600 with Bloomberg’s orange tan jokes.
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Tim Alberta
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Donald Trump is a master of forcing opponents to play the game by his rules.
Tearing up paper? Staging walkouts?
This stuff 👏does 👏not 👏 work. Just ask Rubio, Cruz, Hillary...
The president’s kryptonite is substance and reason. You cannot beat him at stagecraft and emotion.
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Ross Douthat
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Trump giving a cancer-stricken Limbaugh a medal in a speech that barely even pays lip service to limited government is an illuminating scene for someone's history of conservatism.
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Tim Alberta
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I mean, it wasn’t true 11 years ago (sorry, Joe Wilson). But it’s true today. twitter.com/brespolitico/s…
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Tim Alberta
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The story here isn’t the staggering incompetence of the Iowa Democratic Party.
It’s the steady erosion of faith in our elections—the gravest domestic threat facing this country, by a mile. twitter.com/davidrutz/stat…
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Tim Alberta
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Tim Alberta
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Also, as I reported yesterday, Dems are prepared to concede Iowa to Trump anyway
Show me anemic turnout in Michigan on March 10th and we’ll talk
politi.co/2RQINv2
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Tim Alberta
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Not to mention, of course, that Trump lied about massive voter fraud after *winning* in 2016.
So, for anyone who believes things can’t get worse, last night’s turmoil was just a taste of what happens if/when we lose faith in our last great institution, the ballot box.
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Tim Alberta
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Crazy thing is, there was no disputing this reporting — it was confirmed by the Iowa GOP! — and we’re still like, “gee, wonder if Trump would dare to deligitmize election results if he loses”
thegazette.com/subject/news/g…
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Tim Alberta
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Note re: turnout
The caucus process is intimidating and super time-consuming. Met lots of Iowa Ds who weren’t caucusing because 1) they’re too busy, 2) they don’t know how, 3) they’ll vote for anyone vs. Trump
Dangerous to draw conclusions from Iowa, about this or anything else
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Tim Alberta
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Ahem [taps mic]
Four years ago, after losing Iowa, Donald Trump called state GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann and asked him — *twice* — to publicly disavow the results.
As reported exclusively here: amazon.com/American-Carna… twitter.com/timmurtaugh/st…
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Zack Stanton
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"No one will remember who won the 2020 caucuses," writes @TimAlberta, "only that Iowa lost."
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Tim Alberta
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Willie Geist
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.@TimAlberta with the first obit for the Iowa Caucus. twitter.com/timalberta/sta…
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Tim Alberta
@TimAlberta
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Alternate headline:
“Is this Hell? No. It’s Iowa.”
politico.com/news/2020/02/0… pic.twitter.com/EyaR9lG0DU
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Tim Alberta
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And just like that...
politico.com/news/2020/02/0… pic.twitter.com/F4GhAv0E2e
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Tim Alberta
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R.I.P. Iowa, 1976 - 2020
politico.com/news/2020/02/0… pic.twitter.com/QMDs2kZ6zD
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Tim Alberta
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.@AndrewYang, headed to New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/HjPNZgu6i6
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Tim Alberta
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tbh if I’m a candidate I’m coming out and declaring victory, even if baseless and ultimately untrue. Half the people watching will believe it. Trump playbook.
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Tim Alberta
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Hundreds of man-hours invested, millons of dollars spent on organizing and advertising and programming, and the prevailing takeaway for posterity will be administrative incompetence with no clear winner.
What a waste, for these candidates and their staffs and volunteers.
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