[NYP] Has anyone checked to see if Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is still breathing?Let’s face it: Post-Iowa, his party is in free fall. It’s not clear any of their presidential candidates have mapped out a realistic way to the nomination, let alone to beating President Trump in the general election.
On top of that, a 5’7” multibillionaire businessman named Michael Bloomberg is sucking up a shocking level of support despite having entered the race in the 11th hour.
As if that dumpster fire needed kerosene, the Iowa caucuses were a tragic embarrassment of a mess, leaving each of the campaigns and the nation at large confounded at the lack of organization and competence by the party.
Late on Wednesday, we still didn’t know who won the most delegates coming out of Iowa.
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of Whoville, claimed a premature victory but apparently did do very well, despite polling nationally at around 6 percent.
But leaders in the party have a lot of reasons to be nervous about the media momentum Buttigieg is riding following the caucuses: His support among black Democratic voters remains firm at less than 2 percent, a number that looks good on milk and really bad in a general election for a party that relies heavily on that bloc for victory.