Name: How Did Iowa Get So Thoroughly Caucus Blocked?
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T16:31:00.000Z
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THE OTHER BIG STORY COMES FROM THE GREAT STATE OF CONFUSION,

FORMERLY KNOWN AS IOWA, WHERE LAST NIGHT THEY ATTEMPTED TO

I'LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT IN MY NEW LONG-RUNNING SEGMENT:

LAST NIGHT, IOWA WAS SUPPOSED TO KICK OFF THE 2020 ELECTION.

INSTEAD THEY KICKED DEMOCRACY RIGHT IN THE OLD HANGING CHAD.

CABLE NEWS ANCHORS LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE DROWNING.

YOU COULD SMELL THE PANIC COMING OFF OF WOLF BLITZER AND

GOT ZE-ZE-- NOTHING COMING IN FROM THE STATE

>> WE GOT NOTHING AND THIS IS CONFUSING TO THE PEOPLE WATCHING

> "AND EVEN MORE CONFUSING TO US. THE NOTHINGNESS, THE

AS I GAZE INTO THE GAPING MAW OF OBLIVION.

ALL THROUGH THE EVENING, EVERY DISTRICT WAS OFFICIALLY

OR AS TOM STEYER WOULD SAY, "I'M TIED FOR FIRST!"

(  LAUGHTER  ) NOW, WE'VE KNOWN FOR THE LAST

THREE YEARS THAT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR

AND ON DAY ONE, THE DEMOCRATS DOWN IN DES MOINES SHANK IT.

THEY CAN'T EVEN COUNT FARMERS HOLDING THEIR HANDS UP IN A HIGH

(  LAUGHTER  ) >> Stephen: THIS ISN'T EVEN--

FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS NOT EVEN THE FIRST IOWA

BACK IN 2016 THERE WAS A VIRTUAL TIE BETWEEN HILLARY CLINTON AND

IOWA REPUBLICANS EVENTUALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHITER THAN MITT

SO HOW DID IOWA GET SO THOROUGHLY CAUCUS-BLOCKED?

THIS YEAR CAUCUS VOLUNTEERS WERE SUPPOSED TO REPORT RESULTS USING

THE TROUBLE IS, MOST ELDERLY VOLUNTEERS HAD TROUBLE

DOWNLOADING IT ON TO THEIR GARAGE DOOR OPENERS.

( LAUGHTER ) DEVELOPERS ADMIT, RESULTS WERE

SIGNIFICANTLY DELAYED BECAUSE THE NEW APP HAD A CODING ISSUE.

THAT EXPLAINS WHY CNN INITIALLY PROJECTED THE WINNER WAS SENATOR

THE APP WAS DEVELOPED BY A COMPANY CALLED-- AND THIS IS

THE APP WAS SUPPOSED TO COUNT THE VOTES AND I THINK KILL JAMES

EVEN IF THIS APP WORKED PERFECTLY IT WOULDN'T HAVE

MATTERED BECAUSE APPARENTLY PEOPLE WERE STRUGGLING TO EVEN

LOG IN OR DOWNLOAD IT, AND THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANY APP-SPECIFIC

NO, JUST LIKE IN ALL PREVIOUS IOWA CAULKS, STAFF WERE FOLDING

UP CHAIRS AND SAYING PLEASE REFRAIN FROM LICKING THE BUTTER

PRECINCT CHAIRMAN TRIED TO CALL THEIR RESULTS INTO A HOT LINE

BUT IT WAS UNDERSTAFFED AND THEY COULDN'T GET THROUGH.

ONE GUY HAD BEEN ON HOLD FOR OVER AN HOUR WHEN HE WAS

I KNOW YOU'RE LISTENING TO A CONVERSATION FROM THE IOWA

>> SO I'VE GOT TO GET OFF THE PHONE TO REPORT THE RESULTS.

>> CAN WE LISTEN IN AS YOU REPORT THEM, SEAN.

(  LAUGHTER  ) OF COURSE, THE FACT THAT EXACTLY

ZERO PRECINCTS WERE REPORTING DID NOT STOP THE CANDIDATES FROM

CLAIMING VICTORY, ESPECIALLY FORMER SOUTH BEND MAYOR AND

ACTOR WHOSE FRIEND OFFERED TO TAKE HIS HEAD SHOT FOR FREE

BUT SOME OF THE MAYOR'S SUPPORTERS WERE HAVING SECOND

THOUGHTS, LIKE THIS WOMAN WHO VOTED FOR MAYOR PETE, BUT

MOMENTS LATER, FOUND OUT HIS NOT A SECRET.

>> ARE YOU SAYING THAT HE HAS THE SAME-SEX PARTNER?

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