New England Town Hall Meeting ambience aside, yesterday's Iowa caucuses left a lot to be desired. As old a campaign hand as David Axelrod criticized the management of the caucuses.
Across the political aisle, Donald Trump used that mismanagement as more fuel for his delusions of grandeur. Trump put the blame on the Democratic Party of Iowa. At the same time, he suggested he could repair the Iowa caucuses and their status as first in the nation during Presidential electoral cycles..
Mr. Trump said (capitalization and punctuation his) It
is not the fault of Iowa, it is the Do Nothing Democrats fault. As Long
as I am President, Iowa will stay where it is. Important tradition!
We shouldn't be surprised that the about-to-be-annointed Autocrat in Chief doesn't recognize that the Constitution doesn't allow him such an action. This will bite his buttocks big time, but each state establishes and manages its primaries or caucuses. Only in the earliest days of our Republic, that is, before the adoption of the 12th Amendment to our Constitution, did the definition of how a president is chosen exist as part of Article II (beloved of Mr. Trump as allowing him to do anything he wants).
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