Chris Matthews likened it to a “three car funeral,” Joe Scarborough called it a bad omen, and Jeffrey Toobin simply hailed it an embarrassment. No matter who one consults about Monday night’s Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, the opinions among Democrats and their allies are nearly universal: Trump won big.
Over at MSNBC, a noticeably disgusted Chris Matthews said President Trump was “chuckling all night” as the Democratic Party struggled to so much as organize a “three car funeral.”
“The guy in the White House is chuckling all night here, showing the Democrats can’t even get a three car funeral organized, or whatever you want to call it. I would say to the people of Iowa, ‘Will the last person leaving Des Moines, please turn out the lights?’ This has not been a success,” Matthews frustratingly declared, as reported by Newsbusters.
Matthews then tried to spin this gross display of incompetence on the part of the Democrats into the fault of the Iowa caucuses themselves, even though Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez was literally boasting hours before the election about the “reforms” the party had instituted to ensure a more transparent primary process.
“I think we have to ask ourselves about the viability of the Iowa caucuses as an institution to start off this decision this country has to make to find someone to challenge Trump,” continued Matthews.
Chris Matthews on Iowa Caucuses: This has not been a success. pic.twitter.com/tAmEUmfDXO
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 4, 2020
Joe Scarborough of “Morning Joe” blasted the party for leaving the results of Monday night’s important election in the hands of a “crappy app” they did not even know would properly work.
“What is wrong with the Iowa Democratic Party?” Scarborough began on Tuesday morning. “Again, this is a party who botched the call four years ago, rushed it when the media was shocked that they would be so transparent, and now they get on the phone for 74 seconds? The world’s watching this. We’re not being melodramatic.”
“For a year and a half, American politics has been focused on this moment, and the Democratic Party has a crappy app and say, well, nothing happened to the app,” he continued. “Then you hear reports something did happen to the app. Was there election interference? Did somebody try to hack into the app? Was it just pure incompetence? Did they lose the information? Why were they only on the phone for 74 seconds when they should be holding two-hour press conferences explaining to America and the world what happened.”
"The world's watching this," says @JoeNBC of the delayed results for the Iowa caucuses pic.twitter.com/RqtL1EY6Qj
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 4, 2020
Writing at CNN, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin minced no words by deeming the night an “embarrassment.” Toobin even argued that the whole concept of the Iowa caucuses should be scrapped altogether.
“Maybe the fiasco of the late reporting results from the Iowa caucus this year will have a positive legacy — the end of the caucus process and the invitation to another state to start the delegate selection process,” wrote Toobin. “The caucuses are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party and the United States. This is no way to pick a nominee.”
None other than hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter Cenk Uygur of “The Young Turks” expressed the most outrage over the Iowa results.
“I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa & nationally. Who designed the vote counting app & who paid for it? The point of winning #IowaCaucuses is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined,” Uygur declared on Twitter.
I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa & nationally. Who designed the vote counting app & who paid for it? The point of winning #IowaCaucuses is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined. #NotMeUs
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) February 4, 2020
.@cenkuygur on impact of delayed #IowaCaucus results, "The press that you get out of it is the relevant part of Iowa and they just ruined that for the winner."
Watch #tytlive: https://t.co/epNjbsjqnS pic.twitter.com/vL7WIf6FuG
— The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) February 4, 2020