ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took the air on Tuesday to disparage the Iowa Caucus as “the polar opposite of MLK Day” and the way they count the votes because, to Kimmel, putting votes in a paper bag is hilarious, but the DNC’s 2020 app fiasco is something worth memory-holing.
Kimmel asserted that “Meanwhile, in Iowa, many caucuses were held yesterday” and “If you've ever wondered what is the polar opposite of MLK Day, it is the Iowa Republican Caucus.”
Moving on to how the caucus actually works, Kimmel played a video of caucus goers and talking over it, said, “You write a name on a piece of paper and you drop it in a grocery bag. The same people who are screaming about the Dominion voting machines are digging through a brown paper sack from Stop & Shop to decide who will be president. Then they drop all the names into a popcorn bucket, they find the baldest guy they can to count them aloud.”
At least the Iowa GOP can count their votes in a timely manner, unlike Iowa Democrats, but speaking of vote counting, Kimmel then played a clip of a caucus official reading off some results which included one vote for Vivek Ramaswamy, one for Donald Trump, and two for Nikki Haley.
Of course, two of those candidates are not white, but Kimmel proceed apace, “Those were about the only two votes Haley got. She --as was expected, Trump won the caucus tiny-handily. Even though he barely spent any time in Iowa, it somehow made voters love him more. It's the same strategy he used raising Eric and Don Jr.”
The late night comedians will try to argue that it is Republicans who are obsessed with racial politics, but they really just need to look in the mirror to find out who is actually obsessed with racial politics.
Here is a transcript for the January 16 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1/17/2024
11:39 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: Meanwhile, in Iowa, many caucuses were held yesterday. If you've ever wondered what is the polar opposite of MLK Day, it is the Iowa Republican Caucus.
This is how they get the votes. You write a name on a piece of paper and you drop it in a grocery bag. The same people who are screaming about the Dominion voting machines are digging through a brown paper sack from Stop & Shop to decide who will be president. Then they drop all the names into a popcorn bucket, they find the baldest guy they can to count them aloud.
CAUCUS OFFICIAL: Ramaswamy. Trump. Haley. Haley.
KIMMEL: Those were about the only two votes Haley got. She --as was expected, Trump won the caucus tiny-handily. Even though he barely spent any time in Iowa, it somehow made voters love him more. It's the same strategy he used raising Eric and Don Jr.
