I suppose, but it's a small homogeneous state and at one time actually leaned Dem. It has all of 6 electoral votes. Why not start with a much larger and more diverse state like Texas, Ohio or Florida if winning the general election is the goal or even a purple state like Pa or Ga to gauge national popularity. JMO, Iowa coverage seems like a waste of time and $$, but tradition I guess. Again, Iowa has all of 6 electoral votes. Of course NH only has 4 electorals.
Using metrics similar to Cenk in his interview predicting that Biden will be toast in 2024, the 2022 midterms should have been a wave election for Republicans similar to 2010 in which the Republicans picked up 63 House seats or 1994 in which the Republicans picked up 54 seats. Instead they picked up 9 seats. The 2024 presidential election is most likely to be repeat of the 2020 election, also noting that with the exception of the off off year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey in 2021 the Democrats have outperformed the polls in virtually every election since 2017.
Agree although I think Ron DeSantis will drop out long before the Florida primary. His almost certain defeat in South Carolina a month before the Florida primary should end any delusions that Ron may have regarding the viability of his candidacy.
That's because they are idiots and spent all of that time whining about Jan. 6 instead of focusing on issues that matter to Americans. I even told my dumbass Trump-fellater friend the day after the election, "I wouldn't want to be in Biden's shoes right now. Focus on the midterms and it should be a clean sweep." Nah. Went for full-on moron instead. Well played!
I think her rationale was that DeSantis even though he finished ahead of her is no longer a viable candidate considering that he lost to Trump by a 30 percentage point margin not carrying a single county in a state in which he spent both considerable time and financial resources and even followed the playbook which in the past would have led to a successful outcome in Iowa including the development of what in past elections would have been an effective ground game. The next contest is the New Hampshire primary in which Haley is polling considerably better with DeSantis polling in single figures.
The former President of the US got only 51% of the vote in one of the most hardcore red states in the US. All seems great.
WSJ kinda agrees with her as do I. WSJ tells DeSantis to drop out to make way for Haley vs. Trump | The Hill “Mr. DeSantis faces no clear path to the nomination. He’s well behind Ms. Haley in New Hampshire and South Carolina,” the editorial board wrote Tuesday. “If he believes, as he says, that Mr. Trump can’t win in November, he should leave the race and give Ms. Haley a chance to take on Mr. Trump one on one.”
Explanation makes sense. If his donors start to pull away he may have to spend more time with his current constituents.
