Five Takeaways from Up First Briefing: Trump Wins Iowa GOP Caucuses; Stay Prepared During Winter Outages (Theoret Report)
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The result was what everyone expected. Donald Trump won in a big way. So, what does it mean? Here are five takeaways:
Where is the Haley riot? An angry comment on the Facebook outage following the January 6 riot in Washington, DC, where Donald Trump lost 51 percent of the vote
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Laura Loomer is a far-right activist who claims that after it was reported that President Trump won every county in Iowa, Democrat shenanigans occurred and it was reported that Johnson County in Iowa, which is a Biden +40 county, flipped toNikki Haley by one vote.
Even though Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses with 51 percent of the vote, other Trump supporters on far-right online platforms claimed there was an electoral conspiracy, even if they weren’t true.
On Trump’s own platform Truth Social, Seth Keshel, a retired US army captain who has become a leading voice in the election denial movement in recent years, wrote: “Haley by one vote in Johnson County screws my prediction of 99/99 to Trump. Audit!
On pro-Trump message board The Donald, where a lot of the online organizing of the January 6 riot took place, users took issue with Haley’s Monday night claim that Iowa voters made the presidential election a “two-person race.”
Others said the one vote loss was the work of the so-called deep state. “To win by ONE vote is just too conspicuous,” a user wrote. That looks like it is from the Deep State. Responses in the same thread urged Trump to call for a recount in order to “trigger” his opponents.
The Clue to Swalwell by Hall on a Man-In-the-Midnight Campaign: Demography of an Iowa Voter’s Pleasury
“The Iowa Democratic party has reportedly pushed for and paid TENS OF THOUSANDS of its registered voters to temporarily switch their party registration from Democrat to Republican so they can caucus for Nikki Haley,” Joshua Hall, who was once convicted of threatening to kill Democratic congressperson Eric Swalwell, posted on X.
CBS reported that at least one precinct in Johnson County ran out of voting forms due to the fact that people could switch to a different party on the night.
None of those claiming wrongdoing on Monday night gave any proof to back up their claims, which has been the case since the first false claims of a stolen election emerged. With the primary season just starting, those peddling lies about election integrity have already begun.