Tom Perez Unconcerned About Iowa Turnout: ‘The Energy Is Everywhere’ | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about reports that Iowa voter turnout was on par with 2016 levels and not especially high, and whether the current Democratic hopefuls can attract the numbers necessary to defeat Donald Trump. Aired on 02/6/20.
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Tom Perez Unconcerned About Iowa Turnout: 'The Energy Is Everywhere' | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

43 comments

  1. Tom Perez needs to resign.
    And MSNBC needs to report the raw number.
    Bernie won the popular vote. Isn’t that what counts in a democracy?

    1. @Hallking78 You just sound stupid saying that, a republic is a type of democracy; the USA is a democracy.

      Get it through your thick head already, we’re tired of you low IQ people, hurry up and get a clue!

    2. @Hallking78 If you want to be pedantic about it, yes, but it is a form of Democracy known as a representative democracy. I’m not sure there’s a direct democracy anywhere on the planet right now. England, Canada, Australia, etc, are Parliamentary Democracies where the party selects the leader to become Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister must be an elected Member of Parliament. With your logic, you couldn’t call them a Democracy either.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUQKcnWzIg

    3. @Hallking78 Your link goes to a blog that says exactly what I said, that the USA is a democratic republic. duh!

    1. Deborah Freedman look up Iowa’s black hawk county. They got caught taking Bernie’s votes and giving them to Tom steyer and Deval Patrick to make it look like Buttigieg and Bernie were tied.

    2. Deborah Freedman Also the Buttigieg campaign paid the company that made the Iowa Caucus app(Shadow) $42,000. Shadow is run by Gerard Niemira who is married to One of Buttigieg’s campaign strategists Michael Halle. Sounds like a big conflict of interest to me.

    1. @Zeno of Citium perez is to blame.
      They selectively suppressed satellite caucus results to knock out bernie’s edge. It’s obvious.
      No, it’s not just rounding errors and the app, it’s the dnc’s mission since 2016 to ruin bernie’s surge.

  2. That guy is the head of the DNC? Funny, my suspicion of foul play by the Dems suddenly got worse. Why would that be?
    Why is MSNBC avoiding any discussion of the Bidencalypse? Why do they mention Pete 1000 times more often than Bernie?

  3. Don’t be fooled, this is to delay the announcement of Bernie Sanders as the winner. 100% tabulated gives Sanders a 6,000 vote lead (!!) Over the second place finisher. A recanvas delays this conclusion from becoming formal, what a disgrace.

    1. And you know this how? Are you a Psychic? Stop spreading fake news and conspiracy theories. The results are in line with what we all expected in Iowa; they have a funny voting system and they Caucus which ruins(imo) the results. But it is what it is, the numbers couldn’t be reported through a faulty app. slowly over a couple days the count came in, it’s really not that big a deal at the national level. The biggest loser was Joe Biden because of how the caucuses work he was declared not viable in so many. But frankly I’m glad about that outcome, Biden is a firm NO from me. But I would still like the system to be fixed by the next Presidential election.

  4. Reports from on the ground in Iowa was that there was a larger turnout than normal, so why, Rachel, are you just accepting what he says as fact? Aren’t you a journalist? Or are you really a public relations arm of the Democratic Party? Don’t shake his hand. We don’t care if he’s busy. He needs to front up and explain why his party has so obviously denied Bernie a win in Iowa.

  5. Couldn’t the whole democratic party find some better than this clown to be their National chair? He is such loser…

  6. @1:07 – You want to learn the lessons from Iowa?! Well, be honest! Let the people’s voice/choice stand out. That simple. 🙂

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