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“Iowa, you had one job."

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News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As they wait for Iowa caucus results, Jon, Jon, Tommy and Dan talk about what went wrong in the first contest in the nomination process, what it means for the caucus moving forward and how the candidates move on from here, even as they learn more about the delegate counts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:20.1

Welcome to Plot's Ave America, I'm John Favreau.

0:22.1

I'm John Loveett, I'm Tom B. Beethore.

0:23.8

I'm Dan Fyfer.

0:24.6

A beautiful day for democracy here in Des Moines.

0:28.7

We are, so we're recording this bonus episode at 1 p.m. on Central Time.

0:36.3

Central Time on what day is it Tuesday?

0:39.9

And so at 4 p.m. Central, we should have at least half the results.

0:44.8

So by the time you hear this, we will have some results from the Iowa caucuses.

0:50.6

But for now, we are just going to talk about everything that went wrong yesterday,

0:56.6

Monday.

0:57.6

And some of the things that went right against?

0:59.0

We'll try to find some things that went right.

1:00.4

We'll try to find some things that went right.

1:01.9

OK, so the four of us and the cricket media team, we started the night.

1:06.4

We went to a caucus precinct in Ankeny, which is a suburb of Des Moines.

1:15.0

And things seemed pretty smooth at ours.

1:20.5

Seriously?

1:21.0

No, perfectly wrong.

1:22.4

That's what I saw in your life, because it's like you wouldn't have known.

1:24.8

We went to our caucus location.

1:26.5

It was a pretty diverse mix of supporters of all the different candidates.

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