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Trump Allies Push Iowa Caucus Conspiracy Theories as Dems Feud
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allies-promote-iowa-caucus-conspiracy-theories-as-dems-feudDonald Trump’s closest allies seized on Iowa’s caucus woes on Tuesday to promote conspiracy theories about a “rigged” process, and some Democrats lapped it up.
“The fix is in...AGAIN,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, as the Iowa Democratic Party struggled to tabulate results after a coding error prevented full caucus totals from being uploaded through an app.
“Mark my words, they are rigging this thing,” Eric Trump tweeted.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went all-in on conspiracy, trotting out a connect-the-dots theory that sounded like it was ripped from a Scandal script. Democrats, he suggested, had suppressed a newspaper poll and then orchestrated a technical glitch to cover up a poor showing by Joe Biden.
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It would be nearly impossible to manipulate actual vote totals anyway, since the caucus process takes place in public, in full view of multiple rival campaigns and the media.
But that didn’t stop conspiracy theories from popping up almost immediately after the results were delayed late Monday.
. . . Pete Buttigieg’s decision to come out and declare victory before any official results were in fanned some of the flames.
Sanders supporters promoted hashtags like “#MayorCheat” and “#CIAPete,” a reference to conspiracy theories that Buttigieg is a CIA operative. On the Reddit forum for left-wing podcast Chapo Traphouse, a hotbed of pro-Sanders online activity, a highly rated post said believing that the Iowa caucus wasn’t rigged would be as foolish as buying the official line that wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.
“The fix is in...AGAIN,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, as the Iowa Democratic Party struggled to tabulate results after a coding error prevented full caucus totals from being uploaded through an app.
“Mark my words, they are rigging this thing,” Eric Trump tweeted.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went all-in on conspiracy, trotting out a connect-the-dots theory that sounded like it was ripped from a Scandal script. Democrats, he suggested, had suppressed a newspaper poll and then orchestrated a technical glitch to cover up a poor showing by Joe Biden.
. . .
It would be nearly impossible to manipulate actual vote totals anyway, since the caucus process takes place in public, in full view of multiple rival campaigns and the media.
But that didn’t stop conspiracy theories from popping up almost immediately after the results were delayed late Monday.
. . . Pete Buttigieg’s decision to come out and declare victory before any official results were in fanned some of the flames.
Sanders supporters promoted hashtags like “#MayorCheat” and “#CIAPete,” a reference to conspiracy theories that Buttigieg is a CIA operative. On the Reddit forum for left-wing podcast Chapo Traphouse, a hotbed of pro-Sanders online activity, a highly rated post said believing that the Iowa caucus wasn’t rigged would be as foolish as buying the official line that wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
