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Main Takeaway From Iowa? Biden’s in Real Trouble.
He’ll be around for a while, but this defeat was so drastic I don’t know how his campaign will fully recover.
While the Iowa caucus was and continues to be an unmitigated, inexcusable disaster, perhaps one of the most clearcut takeaways from it all is that former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is in massive trouble.
Leading up to the caucus, the Biden camp was doing their best to sound semi-enthusiastic, or at least willing to settle for third place.
Now, with seventy four percent of the precincts finally reported, Biden is in a distant fourth, with just thirteen percent of the vote.
There is no way other way to spin it. His campaign could be in free fall from here on out. Granted, it wasn’t as though he was projected to win. He has been arguing for months that South Carolina is his firewall, and that’s where he thinks he’ll start to do better. But at a time when the vast majority of people are beginning to pay much closer attention to the electoral process, to place in fourth is a devastating blow for a candidate hoping to finance their campaign moving forward, and attract people who haven’t even thought about who they’re going to vote for yet.
