Democrats desperate to undermine Trump's strong primary election polling leads
The DNC tried to manipulate the primary election process that has been in place for the past 50 years to weaken Trump and strengthen his Republican rivals. It didn't work.
(Free/Sunday Jan. 28, 2024)
In a vote on December 2, 2022, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and President Joe Biden, changed the 2024 primary election schedule for their candidates by making another state their first primary and skipping the traditional caucus and primary in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The DNC and Biden's allies asserted they did that because Iowa and New Hampshire don't represent the country -- meaning Democrats -- the way other states do, and they should not be the first primaries.
Under the DNC plan, the first state would be South Carolina followed Georgia, and Michigan. Nevada and the Virgin Island caucuses, which would come before South Carolina, have been thrown into turmoil.
(See the new primary schedule listed at the end of this column.)
DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison, who is African American, said the DNC made the decision because South Carolina and Nevada are "more diverse" and Iowa and New Hampshire "are majority White."
The Republican National Committee (RNC) called the move by the DNC politically unjustified and maintained the existence Primary Election calendar that has been in place since 1972.
But what was the deeper meaning? It's all about politics and claiming it has to do with "diversity" is DNC spin.
The truth is, polling after Biden's election in 2020 showed Trump, who accused Democrats of stealing votes, gaining ground and Trump would have an advantage in "less diverse" states.
Polling also showed that Republican rivals, preferred by Democrats, would have a better chance of defeating Trump in other states outside of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Since 1972, the Iowa and New Hampshire primary elections have given the winners a strengthened election momentum advantage.
Democrats wanted none of that. Snubbed White people. Divided the nation on the basis of race, rather than on legitimate issues. Democrats believe they can help Biden by emphasizing diversity and race by starting in South Carolina. And, the Democrats believe the new schedule gives Republican challengers to Trump , like former South Carolina Governor Nikki "Nimarata" Haley, a better shot at stopping him.
All of this electioneering by the Democrats in collusion with anti-Trump Republicans like Haley, Lynn Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are meant to allow Democrats to manipulate the Republican primary process to undermine Trump, whom they fear will be re-elected despite facing 91 indictments orchestrated by anti-Trump/GOP quisling collaboration.
It also had one more advantage, although that proved to fail.
Democrats believed that by removing Biden and Democrats from the Iowa and New Hampshire primary contests, which were held as they have been first and second nationally earlier this month, would give anti-Trump rivals an advantage.
Democrats who were not voting in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary could cross over and vote for Trump's rivals, as they did more easily in New Hampshire.
It almost worked. But Trump still won.
Trump won Iowa with 51 percent of the vote followed by Ron DeSantis with 21.2 percent and Haley with 19.1 percent of the vote.
Trump won New Hampshire by 54.3 percent of the vote while Haley, with cross-over votes from Democrats, took 43.2 percent of the vote.
Had there been a Democratic Primary election in New Hampshire, Biden would have defeated Haley by an even greater margin as the cross-over Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters would have voted for Biden, and not for Haley as they did.
The media quickly reported after New Hampshire that more than 58 percent of "independent" voters cast their vote for Haley.
Democrats and the media use labels rather than data to define the results. Trump won 39 percent of the "independents." When he won in 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Machine by winning "independents" and voters defined by the term Democrats hate to use, "conservative Democrats" or "Reagan Democrats."
Reagan Democrats remain a formidable voting force mainly as a conservative segment of the Democratic Party which is run by far Left extremists.
Despite the facts, the biased mainstream American News media continued to spin the New Hampshire results asserting that "New Hampshire exposed Trumps vulnerabilities" and creates a path for Biden to beat him.
That is a new headline from USA Today, one reflected by most major news media. Partisan political opinion disguised as "news."
We don't really get "news" any more from the "news" media. We get spin, opinion and partisan manipulation.
Liberal partisan media like the Washington Post are showcasing column after column pushing Haley, trashing Trump and trashing Republicans and conservatives, too.
Trump, of course, makes it all easy. He can't stop himself from focusing on the petty issues and the Left has mastered attacking him in petty ways knowing he can't resist responding. The petty issues are stupid and Trump can't control himself, his biggest weakness as a leader. He lost the 2020 elections specifically because he engaged in the media's and Democrat's petty taunting.
Although the biased mainstream news media continues to push Haley as their only chance to stop Trump -- whom they truly hate -- they recognize it might not be possible to stop Trump at the election polls.
Even Haley recognizes the futility of trying to beat Trump and is lowering expectations in her remarks, asserting she "doesn't have to win" South Carolina in order to beat Trump long term. She just "needs to do better" than she did in New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, the media continues to put the focus on Trump to deflect American public attention from Biden's continued stumbles, bumbles and failures and an inescapable habit of misreading his carefully prepared teleprompter speeches -- that the Obama era White House staff and consultants are writing.
Regardless, Trump should easily defeat Haley in the upcoming South Carolina primary elections.
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Here is the actual calendar of primary elections by state and  date:
ELECTION DATE STATE DELEGATES
Jan. 15 Iowa Republican caucus. 40
Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary. 22
Feb. 6. Nevada primary
A 2021 law requires Nevada to hold state-run presidential primaries, but the state G.O.P. has opted to host its own caucuses two days later. Only the caucus results will be used to allocate delegates.
Feb. 8 Nevada Republican caucus 26
Virgin Islands caucus 4
Feb. 24 South Carolina primary. 50
Feb. 27 Michigan primary 16
A law signed by the Democratic governor of Michigan moved the state’s primaries up, to Feb. 27, but the earlier date violates R.N.C. rules. To avoid a penalty from the national party, Michigan’s Republican Party will award 16 of its 55 delegates based on the results of the Feb. primary, but will wait until its state convention on March 2 to formally allocate those and the remaining 39 to candidates.
March 2. Idaho caucus. 32
Michigan state convention. 39
Missouri Republican caucus
Missouri’s 54 delegates will not all be formally bound to candidates until its state G.O.P. convention on May 4.
March 3 Washington, D.C. primary 19
March 4 North Dakota caucus 29
SUPER TUESDAY
March 5 Alabama primary 50
Alaska primary. 29
American Samoa territorial caucus. 9
Arkansas primary. 40
California primary. 169
Colorado primary. 37
Maine primary. 20
Massachusetts primary. 40
Minnesota primary. 39
North Carolina primary. 74
Oklahoma primary 43
Tennessee primary 58
Texas primary 161
Utah caucus. 40
Vermont primary. 17
Virginia primary. 48
March 10. Wyoming county conventions
Wyoming’s 29 delegates will be formally allocated at the G.O.P. state convention occurring April 18 to April 20.
March 12. Georgia primary. 59
Hawaii caucus. 19
Mississippi primary. 40
Washington primary 43
March 15. Northern Mariana Islands territorial caucus. 9
March 16. Guam territorial convention 9
Guam’s 9 delegates are not allocated to candidates before the national convention in July.
March 19. Arizona primary. 43
Florida primary. 125
Illinois primary 64
Kansas primary. 39
Ohio primary. 79
March 23. Louisiana primary. 47
April 2. Connecticut primary. 28
Delaware primary. 16
New York primary. 91
Rhode Island primary 19
Wisconsin primary 41
April 6. Missouri district conventions
Missouri’s 54 delegates will not all be formally bound to candidates until its state G.O.P. convention on May 4.
April 20. Wyoming state convention. 29
April 21. Puerto Rico primary 23
April 23. Pennsylvania primary. 67
Includes 51 congressional district delegates that are not allocated to candidates before the national convention in July.
May 4. Missouri state convention. 54
Missouri’s 54 delegates will not all be formally bound to candidates until its state G.O.P. convention on May 4.
May 7 Indiana primary. 58
May 14 Maryland primary. 37
Nebraska primary. 36
West Virginia primary 32
May 21 Kentucky primary. 46
Oregon primary
Oregon’s 31 delegates will be allocated at the G.O.P. state convention on May 25
May 25. Oregon state convention. 31
June 4. Montana primary. 31
Montana’s 31 delegates are not allocated to candidates before the national convention in July.
New Jersey primary 12
New Mexico primary. 22
New Mexico’s 22 delegates are not allocated to candidates before the national convention in July.
South Dakota primary. 29
South Dakota’s 29 delegates are not allocated to candidates before the national convention in July.
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