On Tuesday’s installment of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, the eponymous host defended the media’s decision to project Donald Trump as the winner of the Iowa Caucus even before all precincts and started voting by claiming voters couldn’t change what they were going to do. Meanwhile, correspondent Vaughn Hillyard blamed modern technology for the media’s decision as if it was somehow compelled to make the call.
Mitchell began, “Vaughn, let’s talk about last night. The DeSantis campaign, they cried foul after the Iowa results were called before all the precinct halls wrapped up caucusing, but as you know better than anyone, when people walk into those halls, they are locked and voters can’t, you know, change what they’re going to do.”
What is Mitchell talking about? At each precinct site a campaign representative gives a
