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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 172 - 3 days and Iowa is still up in the air

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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It's now been three days since people voted in Iowa, and as of this recording,

0:10.0

almost 29% of the voting is still outstanding.

0:15.4

29% of the votes.

0:17.2

I've never seen this in my life.

0:19.8

It shows a gross level of incompetence.

0:23.7

As you know yesterday, I was in New Hampshire with Bernie Sanders all day.

0:29.4

We campaigned in New Hampshire all day, all night, I flew back to Brooklyn and 29% of the vote is still

0:37.8

outstanding in Iowa.

0:39.9

I have to laugh to keep from crying.

0:42.2

It's incredibly frustrating.

0:44.2

Let me break it down because now I understand some inside mechanics of what's really

0:49.7

going on, let's confront the problem.

0:52.3

I'll unpack and explain it this is Sean King and you are listening to

0:56.8

the breakdown The breakdown.

1:03.0

The breakdown.

1:05.0

It is now.

1:08.0

It is now day number three.

1:15.0

And nearly a third of all of the votes from Iowa, a place where so many of my friends and colleagues and

1:27.6

partners who not only fought for Bernie Sanders, but I have friends who fought there for

1:32.4

months on end for

1:34.4

Corey Booker for Julian Castro for Elizabeth Warren like that people have given nearly a year of their lives in this place.

1:47.2

And here we are three days later with nearly a third of all the votes still left unreported. Since I last came to you I have

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