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Grasping for straws in the early going of the vote tallying for Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, CNN correspondent Brian Todd exclaimed to viewers about the seemingly simple sorting and counting of votes at one Republican caucus site that he hyped as being beamed “live on international television.”
Todd was reporting from Ankeny, Iowa and admitted at the start of his live shot around the 8:53 p.m. Eastern mark that “[t]he first moment of truth is at hand right now” as the last call for votes had been called with the caucus officials placing ballots “into these popcorn baskets and people are still putting them into these baskets over here.”