{"id":1763702,"date":"2022-12-05T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763702"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:33:05","slug":"let-me-explain-something-exasperated-whoopi-lectures-joni-ernst-says-iowa-is-too-white-to-lead-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-me-explain-something-exasperated-whoopi-lectures-joni-ernst-says-iowa-is-too-white-to-lead-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let Me Explain Something\u2019: Exasperated Whoopi Lectures Joni Ernst, Says Iowa Is Too White To Lead Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flet-me-explain-something-exasperated-whoopi-lectures-joni-ernst-says-iowa-is-too-white-to-lead-primaries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A clearly exasperated <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/whoopi-lectures-clarence-thomas-on-diversity-suggests-he-was-an-affirmative-action-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> paused briefly on Monday to lecture Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) for daring to complain about President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/02\/politics\/dnc-south-carolina-primary-calendar-2024\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan to move<\/a> the \u201cfirst-in-the-nation\u201d primary to South Carolina \u2014 undercutting both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary \u2014 ahead of the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg offered to \u201cexplain\u201d things to the senator \u2014 and then claimed that South Carolina would be a better representation of the nation at large because Iowa\u2019s population is more than 80% white.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Juju Chang says the problem with Iowa is that the caucuses are confusing and it&#8217;s cold. &#8220;It&#8217;s not representative of where America is,&#8221; she says.<br \/>She does say that Iowans are &#8220;very civically minded&#8221;<br \/>Whoopi says her lecture wasn&#8217;t ill-intended, &#8220;no disrespect.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jjp0jRlleH\">pic.twitter.com\/Jjp0jRlleH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1599803558123143168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ernst said over the weekend that she was \u201cdisappointed\u201d to see the Democrats moving to take away her state\u2019s \u201cfirst-in-the-nation\u201d status, adding, \u201cI feel that Democrats have really given middle America the middle finger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg shared her comments before responding with a dramatic sigh, \u201cActually, Joni, let me explain something. \u2026 This is probably a move so that it best represents a state, because Iowa is about 87.1% white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurrying to qualify her remarks by saying it wasn\u2019t necessarily a \u201cbad thing\u201d that Iowa was a majority-white state, Goldberg argued that the Carolinas represented more of a \u201cvariety of folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Goldberg is right that there are more non-white people in South Carolina, the demographics there are not quite representative of the country as a whole. <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/states\/south-carolina-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina<\/a> is about 69% white and nearly 27% black \u2014 while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overall population<\/a> of the United States is 75% white and just under 14% black.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News\u2019 Juju Chang pushed back a bit, explaining that the move was being pursued in part because Iowa is very cold in the early months of the year, and the caucus system as a whole is confusing to most Americans. She did agree, however, that Iowa was not a good representation of the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg jumped back in then, saying that she had not meant any disrespect to Iowans. \u201cI just felt I needed to explain one of the reasons might be,\u201d she said. \u201cNo disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on the issue, saying that Biden was likely considering South Carolina because it was the first primary he had won in 2020 \u2014 and argued that Michigan (79% white and 14% black) would have been a better choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ana Navarro supports the backroom politics that led to South Carolina going first.<br \/>She notes the chair of the DNC is from South Carolina, Biden&#8217;s friend Rep. Jim Clyburn represents part of the state, and &#8220;Biden owes&#8221; SC. She too thinks Iowa is too white. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5OKfODGyj\">pic.twitter.com\/x5OKfODGyj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1599806658955313153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-host Ana Navarro suggested that Biden\u2019s ties to Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) \u2014 who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/jim-clyburn-changed-everything-for-joe-bidens-campaign-hes-been-a-political-force-for-a-long-time\/2020\/03\/30\/7d054e98-6d33-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largely credited<\/a> with delivering his state for Biden in the 2020 primary \u2014 might explain why the Palmetto State is on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clearly exasperated Whoopi Goldberg paused briefly on Monday to lecture Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) for daring to complain about President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to move the \u201cfirst-in-the-nation\u201d primary to South Carolina \u2014 undercutting both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary \u2014 ahead of the 2024 election. Goldberg offered to \u201cexplain\u201d things to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1763705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}