Bonus Pod: WHY New Hampshire Matters...and Iowa...and South Carolina
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Senator Cruz and I sat down and did a really, really fun discussion about Iowa, New Hampshire, |
| 0:07.5 | South Carolina, moving into Super Tuesday, especially with Ron DeSantis dropping out. |
| 0:12.8 | So what does history have to say about those states picking who's going to actually be the president? |
| 0:18.3 | And what does it look like now moving forward with Donald Trump |
| 0:21.1 | against Nikki Haley? Here is our deep dive, especially as you're getting ready to see what |
| 0:26.3 | happens in New Hampshire. It's verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. You know, I think it's interesting |
| 0:31.5 | if you look at the history of the primaries. And I want to do a little bit of a deep dive into these |
| 0:35.5 | early state primaries, the role that they have played. |
| 0:39.0 | And so let's start with Iowa. |
| 0:40.2 | The Iowa caucuses have played a very significant role. |
| 0:44.0 | Let's start on the Democrat side. |
| 0:46.0 | And go back to 1976, 1976, the Democrat winner of the Iowa caucus. |
| 0:52.6 | Do you know who it was? |
| 0:53.2 | I don't. |
| 0:55.7 | It was the governor of Georgia, |
| 1:01.2 | an unknown candidate by the name of Jimmy Carter. Really? And the Iowa caucuses basically propelled Jimmy Carter to become president of the United States. And he went and he worked it. He |
| 1:06.7 | worked it on the ground. There are 99 counties in Iowa. He went and did grassroots events after grassroots event, |
| 1:12.3 | and Jimmy Carter's victory in the Iowa caucus was pivotal. |
| 1:15.6 | Without that, he doesn't become president. |
| 1:20.1 | You then look, 1984, so 1980, the incumbents of the caucus doesn't matter. |
| 1:28.3 | 84 is the next open presidential race. |
| 1:31.1 | The winner of it was Walter Mondale, 49%. |
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