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Hacks On Tap

Quality (Out-of) Control: Iowa’s Meltdown and On to New Hampshire

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, News Commentary, Government, News

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Bleary-eyed and results-less, Murphy and guest hack Robert Gibbs join forces to wade through last night’s Iowa caucus madness. Are the Iowa caucuses no longer viable? Laden with technical difficulties and “quality control” issues, was the mangled process the nail in the coffin for Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status? Or for caucuses in general? As the country holds its breath, multiple candidates seize on the opportunity to tout a “victory” speech: to what degree is the real winner’s spotlight diluted? If Buttigieg wins Iowa, but doesn't get to enjoy a big bounce going into New Hampshire, what will it mean for his candidacy? Will Biden crumble if he underperforms expectations? And on impeachment: Murphy shares his take on former client Sen. Lamar Alexander and the Hacks wade through what happens next. Lastly, we dive into the mailbag and take listeners’ questions on why Nevada is so often overlooked in the early states' media narrative, and how Murphy feels about the Wall Street Journal’s soft touch on Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Pullup at Chair, it's Axon Taff with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

0:20.0

By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.

0:30.0

We're going to walk out of here with our share of delegates. We don't know exactly what it is yet, but we feel good about what we are.

0:37.0

And look, so it's on to New Hampshire.

0:40.0

We know there's delays, but we know one thing. We are punching above our weight.

0:47.0

I imagine have a strong feeling that at some point the results will be announced.

0:58.0

And when those results are announced, I have a good feeling we're going to be doing very, very well here tonight.

1:07.0

Tonight showed that our path to victory is to fight hard for the changes Americans are demanding.

1:14.0

Changes that Democrats, Independents and Republicans are demanding.

1:21.0

Tonight showed that our agenda isn't just a progressive agenda, it isn't just a democratic agenda. It's an American agenda.

1:33.0

Welcome everybody to the morning after here on Haxon Taff. We're having our own challenges just like the Iowa State Party.

1:43.0

What a thing last night. So in the middle of the night, Axelrod got a call from CNN, big cooking segment this morning.

1:49.0

And they needed somebody to wear the chef's hat. So they they yanked the expensive chain.

1:54.0

And he was unable to make our recording this morning. Now we thought about delaying it, but then you don't get to hear us talk about nothing till later.

2:02.0

Since we don't yet have results. But luckily for us, we had ace political consultant friend of the show all around bomb,

2:10.0

Vermont, Robert Gibbs scheduled to be our guest hack today. As we looked at the caucus, he just returned from there doing a little, I guess I'll call political tourism.

2:19.0

So once again, Robert, thank you for pinching in for Mr. Axelrod and welcome to Haxon Taff.

2:26.0

Well, I'm just glad I could bring the type of clarity that this result demands.

2:31.0

Well, you know, I just got into the app and I found out that Vottomere Putin just carried anckony with 100%.

2:40.0

So what do we make of this thing? What do we think happened and what do we think the impact of the slow motion results that hopefully will be later today if they can just get 99 County chairman to call the state committee, which doesn't seem like like a heavy lift to me.

2:55.0

But assuming we get answers after lunch, sometimes this afternoon or what happened, what's your overall take?

3:02.0

Well, lots of different takes. I mean, obviously it's terrible for the Democratic Party. It's terrible for the Iowa Democratic Party.

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