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I have a very different reaction to that data. by Cash

That would be a death blow to DeSantis and his all-in 99-county tour of Iowa. Haley only really started working there a few weeks ago, concentrating much more on NH. DeSantis will not have a sustainable campaign if he finishes third, especially if outside the margin of error.

My other thought is that Republican Party voters, and especially the subset of them that vote in primaries and caucuses, are almost comically broken.

I quote Jay Nordlinger, who said the following in reaction to a clip of the 45th president calling the prosecuted individuals from the Jan 6 mob “hostages” who had been treated worse than anyone in history:

“Tens of millions want this man to be president. Again. It's not that they don't have options -- Republican options. They have several. But they want him. Which says more about us, as a nation, than about him.”


Cash