The View co-host Meghan McCain slammed the Iowa Democratic Party after it commissioned a voting app that failed on caucus night, sending the first-in-the-nation state scrambling to tabulate the results of voters.
“These things do happen in the sense that Iowa has a clumsy history of getting — like Rick Santorum ended up winning, and it was declared Mitt Romney in 2012,” said McCain. “But what they don’t normally do is have no results at all.“
The Iowa Democratic Party said it expects to release the results of the caucus on Tuesday, although some have suggested it could take days to verify the winner.
“This is a disaster, and Iowa should completely remove themselves from the caucus in general and turn into a primary next election cycle because they clearly can’t handle the responsibility and the gravity of this,” McCain said.
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang shifted blame to President Trump, tweeting, “It might be helpful to have a President and government that understand technology so this sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
But McCain and the other co-hosts claimed it was the Iowa Democratic Party who is at fault for the failure. Host Joy Behar said that “everyone won last night except Jimmy Carter” and suggested Iowa should lose its first-in-the-nation status.
“All the staffers and politicians who have gone to Iowa and spent millions of dollars, left their families, campaigned, gone to this state because they believe in the first-in-the-nation caucus status — to have this happen? It’s a load for garbage, and I’m done with it,” added McCain.
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