Toronto's Globe & Mail newspaper has portrayed Benedict Donald's Iowa victory last night as a "thundering" one. Hmmm. We'll cut them some slack — they're Canadian, after all. How could a caucus in which nearly exactly half of the crazypants Republican voters chose someone other than Trump be thundering?
Well, maybe it is if you're the Trump campaign, and you hear ominous rumblings in the distance, like far-off but approaching cannon fire. They should take it as a warning.
Another sign of trouble ahead could include yesterday's low turnout — only 115,000, down from nearly 190,000 in 2016 (the last time there wasn't a Republican incumbent vying for the prize). You can't blame it all on the cold. Iowans are used to winter. Perhaps some of it was complacency, but maybe folks are just feeling tired of the old Trump shtick, and didn't feel excited enough about the opposition to show up.
Speaking of the opposition, what a mess they have on their hands. That perpetual fraud Nikki Haley was supposed to come in second, but instead she slipped to third, at 19.1 percent. Rhonda Santis ended up second at 21.2 percent. Otherwise, it was "Vivek, we hardly knew ye," as Ramaswamy dropped out after winning a paltry 7.7 percent.
This is all very good for us. With Rhonda landing in second place and Haley underperforming but allegedly expected to benefit in New Hampshire from Chris Christie's retirement, it's hard to imagine either of them dropping out for at least the next week or so. Which means they'll keep spending money and beating each other up. And they'll keep making stupid mistakes — Haley's already done it, in fact. And DeSantis surprising the pundits makes his bleating last night about "election interference" look even sillier. Excellent!
The only way this could have been better would have been if DeSantis and Haley had been closer, with bad votes in several counties calling second-place into question. But we'll take it. We cats PURR.
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