The hits got off to an early start, with the CQs, and it’s still coming a month after the election. Earlier this week, state officials certified Republican Marianette Miller-Mix’s victory in the state Open Congress against Democrat Rita Hart in the congressional district – making her one of two group members to win the G.O.P. Flipped in control. If it is a very narrow result Face the challenge of the heart, It will leave Democrats with only one of Iowa’s four House seats.
He is on top of harassing B Biden in the Trump state itself, with Democrats failing to oust GOP Sen. Johnny Ernst and Republicans expanding Their majority in the legislature. This month, there is a party Expect an audit Just like the Cass Fiasco, as Democrats begin to look toward the mid-middle and 2024 calendar nominees for the presidency.
If only Democrats in Iowa had a difficult caucus or a down-ballet loss, it wouldn’t be so bad. The party did poorly in the race of Congress and MLAs everywhere. But with Iowa ahead of all other states in the presidential appointment process, the line is longer than in other states. And after Democrats overturned two House seats in 2018 and expectations in Iowa were unusually high, and Democratic voter registration moved ahead of the Caucasus, leaving Republicans briefly behind for the first time in years. Biden appeared competitive enough there earlier this summer that Trump broadcast defensively Ads in the state.
It would be easy to forget to handle causal cases – where one application failed, results were delayed, and initial reports were found to contain errors – Democrats would have ousted Ernst or made Biden Iowa blue.
Instead, Biden lost the state by more than 8 percentage points, with Trump taking all the carrying counties from the state’s 9,999 counties – as he did in 2016. Ernst took Theresa Greenfield fast by almost percentage points. Bidding for a second term and the only successful candidate in the Democratic House, Rep. Cindy Axen barely sat on her seat.
“I’m fed up with being a Democrat,” said Chris Adcock, chairman of the Democratic Party in Page County, southwest Iowa. “It’s just boring.”
C Dakok, who failed for the legislature seat, said she had “eternal hope.” But “six [votes] For Miller-Mix? Oh, it’s rude. And then Abby [Finkenauer] Lost? Oh, my gosh, it’s heartbreaking. “
Even Republicans can hardly trust their good fortune. “I never expected – I never really did – I never expected it to be the night we did it,” said Jeff Kaufman, president of the Iowa Republican Party.
Democrats blamed their failures in Iowa on a confluence of similar factors that dragged Trump to victory in other states. The president plunged Biden into rural areas, where Republican voting exceeded expectations – and where Democrats failed to indoors. In the midst of a coronavirus epidemic and ineffective communication on the economy, Dorak was prevented from knocking on his door.
The coronavirus toll and the impact of Trump’s trade policies on Iowa’s agricultural economy did not hurt Republicans as much as Democrats had hoped. Exit polls suggest Biden has not only lost rural votes in Iowa Even the suburbs. Because Iowa was never a major swing state, Biden did not campaign heavily there.
“Our campaign with Biden was like we were playing football without a quarterback,” said Dave Nagley, former congressional president and president of the Iowa Democratic Party. “We were running without air cover, we were running a weak Senate campaign હતું it was a complete storm for the kind of disaster we had.”
Democrats would have expected that. Even before the Caucasus climax, there were signs that not everything was right in Iowa. Trump’s impeachment hearing pulled three of the five presidential candidates out of the state in the final race for the presidency. The much-anticipated Des Moines Register / CNN / Mediacom poll was canceled at the last minute due to a survey error. And once Biden won the nomination – thanks to South Carolina and Super Tuesday for the subsequent polls – the conclusion of its anime fourth place in Iowa seemed less important to the state than before and pointed to its lack of diversity.
The road to consistency is going to be a slog, with a deep declaration for the national party that is laboring to regain a sustainable foothold in the Midwest. Following the election, incumbent State Party Chairman Mark Smith – who followed in the footsteps of his predecessor Troy Price – resigned after the coup. Announced that he would not seek re-election. Although a handful of Democrats have already indicated their intention to run for office, some of the state’s most high-profile Democrats, including J.D. Cholten and Didier Dezer, recruited for the position, but told colleagues they would not run – something Shelton said. And DJR both confirmed.
It’s a thankful job. Few Democrats expect the state’s fortunes to improve in the midterm elections, while the president’s party traditionally faces headwinds. And like other states, the party is fired from internal contradictions – a leading Democrat who calls it “the psychiatric ward right now in terms of the war between progressives … and moderates.”
The Ditt report that the party plans to publish on C-Cues will not help rather than tear open old wounds – and will introduce a new platform for out-of-state critics of Iowa’s leading role. The report is likely to be widely blamed for the slowdown in the vote count, with many Democrats saying tensions are likely to escalate between Iowa Democrats and Democratic National Committee officials who clashed over the Caucasus earlier this year.
Tennessee DNC member William Owen said this week that the Iowa Democrats have “lost their credibility and should not be taken seriously anymore,” urging the party to move from the Caucus to the primary system.
“I would imagine it would generate a wave of bad stories about the Cuccas,” said Jeff Link, a Democratic strategist in Iowa. “Iowa is not in a great place.”
It is possible that if Biden seeks re-election in 2024, the lack of a competitive primary will reduce the pressure on Democrats to push again. The lender. In addition, the expected departure of N.C. President Tom Perez, who was highly critical of the Caucasus, is seen by the Iowa Democrats as the beginning of somehow retaining them.
“Do I think we’ll keep it,” said Kaufman, a Democrat ally in the parties’ effort to keep the state’s caucus in check. [the caucuses]? Yes i do Do I think it will be a bigger fight than I expected? Yes, I do. “
Kaufman said he still considers Iowa a swing state – an important political center for both parties. But for Democrats, that’s an even more difficult argument than it was a month ago.
Former Secretary of the Obama administration, Iowa Governor. “It’s always dark before dawn,” Tom Wilseck said in an email. DJR said she saw more groups of Democrats in the state “together” than ever before before the election – with a “huge task,” but she said “it’s very possible to accomplish.”
Iowa D.N.C. Scott Brennan, a member of the NA and former state party chairman, said the November results were “disappointing here”, similar to “many places at the national level where we thought we would choose all these seats, and none of them are true.” “
Still, Brennan said, “2020 can be forgotten for many reasons. Politics did not make it much better. ”
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