Biden campaign agonizes over Iowa shellacking

[brooklynite]

Politico

While the full Iowa caucus results still aren’t in, Biden’s unexpectedly weak performance Monday — he’s in fourth place with 16 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting — has provoked frustration and recriminations within the campaign, according to interviews with more than a dozen campaign aides and surrogates.

Donors needed to be calmed. Staffers began pointing fingers over what exactly went wrong. The campaign parted ways with its Iowa field director, Adrienne Bogen.

Outside the campaign, Biden’s Iowa train wreck revived questions about the durability of his candidacy, and threatened to slow a fundraising operation that was already showing signs of stress.

“We had precinct captains who didn’t know how to run a caucus. And a few didn’t even show. We lost friggin’ people on the second ballot of voting in the caucus. Someone’s head had to roll,” said a top-level Biden campaign staffer Wednesday.

[NJCher]

1. Yeah, I hear the person's head

That is rolling is actually pretty good at the job. Another shoot yourself in the foot move from the Biden campaign.

NY Times article on this is also good.

[Iliyah]

2. And yet again, more friends now say VP Biden is the choice . . .

Gosh, a human emotions, go figure

[Scurrilous]

3. LOL

For further searches ( + Biden + Iowa caucus):

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/shellacking?s=t


Luck!

[LongtimeAZDem]

5. ...

[Ford_Prefect]

4. So the only conclusion they draw is that the campaign's process was weak?

No reason to think there might also be other meaningful conclusions to reach about the issues attached to the candidate? Caucusing is only the herding of pliable voters? Wow!

[Laelth]

6. It's early days.

I won't worry about Biden's campaign until South Carolina. If he loses in South Carolina, I think he will be done.

-Laelth