
Outrage Spreads After Early Call for Trump
Published on January 16, 2024
How can you call an election over before the ballots are even cast? That’s what many observers, even in the press, were asking on Monday night after the Associated Press called the Republican Party of Iowa’s Jan. 15 Caucus for President Donald Trump a little over a half hour after the caucuses began. Many accused the AP of breaking its own rules by calling a race while the polls were still open. The news organization’s frequently asked question section on political races says, “AP will not call the winner of a race before all the polls in a jurisdiction are scheduled to close.”...
