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Oct. 20, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Senator Jim Webb is uh ending his bid for the presidency as a Democrat and may go independent.
He's figured out that he is not one of these members of the Star Wars Cantina scene.
He's not one of these wild-eyed, crazed leftists.
But he also doesn't think he's a Republican.
You know, I saw somebody yesterday make the case.
I forget who, it was it was one of the many places that I go, each and every day.
But somebody said Webb going third party, you'd think it would hurt Democrats, but it isn't gonna hurt Democrats.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the theory is that Webb going third party is gonna hurt the Republicans because everything hurts the Republicans.
I mean, that was the theory.
The theory was that Webb isn't a Democrat.
He's not gonna take any votes away from any of those Democrats.
He's getting out of the race because he's not one of them.
And there aren't any moderate Democrats anymore, so he can't split the Democrat vote.
All he can do is split the Republican vote because he's more like a Republican than a Democrat.
So that was the that was the theory.
So keep that uh, well, wherever you want to keep it, if at all.
But it's uh it's just one point of view.
Not guaranteed he's gonna go as an independent either, even despite what he says now.
He did get out.
He's not running as a as a uh as a Democrat.
But you know, it the irony is, and don't doubt me on this.
It wasn't that long ago that Jim Webb would have been seen as a radical Democrat not that long ago.
The Democrat Party has moved so far left that they're now embracing socialism.
They're actually embracing it and they're making the case for it, and they have long celebrated communist heroes of theirs like Castro and Mao and Che Guevara.
I mean, they're they're gone.
They're far, far gone, and the American people are rejecting them.
Outside the presidential elections, the American people are rejecting the Democrat Party, and they're doing so in droves.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Uh Matthew Iglesias.
No relation to Julio Iglesias.
No relation to Enrique Iglesias, and therefore no relationship to that blonde Russian tennis player.
What's her name?
Runs her.
That's right, Anna Kornikova.
Matthew is a lone Iglesius.
He runs around with his buddies at Bucks, which would be Ezra Klein and uh a number of other young millennial types for the most part that uh grew tired of working for the old stand-by big guys, New York Times, Washington Post, they found some funding, which is what liberals do.
And uh got this site that's I guess it's owned now by some I forget who owns it.
Uh major, major big time organization owns it now, though.
But they set their site up as an explainer site, not as a news site, meaning they take the news out there and they do explainer stories.
What does this mean?
What is it about?
They leave the reporting to others, and they explain it, of course, with a l with a very, very demonstrable left-wing tilt.
But Matthew Iglesias is the first Democrat I have seen stumble on to this topic and write about it.
A headline of his piece, Democrats are in denial.
Their party is actually in deep trouble.
Now, I have been pointing this out since 2010.
The midterm elections in 2010, the first Tea Party midterm.
Remember that election, the Democrats lost 700 seats across the country.
Governorships, state legislatures, mayors, city council, you name it all.
They have lost, and they lost another close to 700 in 2014.
They are down nearly 1,500 seats.
Between 12 and 1,500 seats.
Elected positions nationwide.
And heglacius has stumbled across this.
I hope I do not damage His reputation or career by citing him here.
But it happens.
But I just want to say because young millennials are reading this today.
The Democrat Party's in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself.
Yeah, Barack Obama's taking a victory lamp in his seventh year in office, and yeah, the Republicans can't find a credible candidate to oppose Trump, and yeah, they can't find anybody who wants to be Speaker of the House.
Yeah, they're bumbling like Keystone cops.
But all that's true, but rather than lay the foundation for enduring Democrat success, all this has done is breed a wrong-headed atmosphere of complacence among Democrats.
The presidency is very important, of course, but there are also thousands of critically important offices all the way down the ballot.
And the vast majority, 70% of state legislatures, more than 60% of governors, 55% of attorneys general, and secretaries of state are now in Republican hands.
And the brunt of that, since the 2010 midterms, nationwide, there has been a rejection of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party that they don't want to talk about.
And I, folks, I have to tell you, it has not been an embrace of the Republican Party because the Republican Party hasn't run for anything.
The Republican Party strategically, in both midterms, stood mute.
They were afraid of saying anything that would anger people, so they didn't say diddly squat, they didn't criticize Obama.
Individual candidates out there did.
But the party itself did not.
So the people of this country, it is accurate to say, in the midterms in 2010 and 2014, rejected Democrats all over this country, exceptions, of course, California, New York, but the numbers are still what they are.
70% of state legislatures, 60% of governors, 55% of attorneys general, secretaries of state, are in Republican hands.
And of course, Republicans control both chamber of Congress.
Indeed, even the House in fighting reflects in some ways the health of the Republican coalition.
Republicans are confident they will not lose power in the House in 2016, and are hungry for a vigorous argument about how best to use the power they have.
Not only have Republicans won most elections, but they have a perfectly reasonable plan for trying to recapture the White House.
But Democrats have nothing at all in the works to redress their crippling weakness down the ballot.
Democrats aren't even talking about how to improve on their weak points, because by and large they don't even admit that they exist.
Now there's a reason for that, too.
And it's time to throw some cold water on this.
But at the same time, the left has infiltrated the judiciary, which oftentimes overturns legislatures and popular votes of the people.
The left has infiltrated and dominates the federal bureaucracy, which is going crazy writing regulations outside of Congress.
So the left, as differentiated from the Democrat Party, the left has corrupted all kinds of very powerful institutions, not to forget to mention that they run Hollywood.
They run books, TV and movies.
The pop culture, they own that.
So it's not I don't want anybody to get the idea that I'm lost here and Democrats losing big because they are in certain ways.
But one of the reasons why, if they are complacent, one of the reasons why is what they do have.
They have the EPA.
Depending on if a Republican wins the White House, whoever it is, Trump, whoever somebody wins it, what are they going to do with the EPA?
If they're going to leave it alone to show unity, then the Democrats are going to keep running it.
Department of Justice, ditto.
You name it, all of these places.
And Obama's not going anywhere after he loses.
Well, after he leaves office.
He's not going to just sit idly by while people try to unwind his agenda, as George W. Bush has.
So the landscape is complicated, but it is true in terms of elections, which represent the voice of the people, the Democrats are being rejected all over the country.
Iglesias writes that the Democrats here, they're focused on a competition between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton over whether they should go a little bit to Obama's left or a lot to his left.
Options that are unlikely to help Democrats down ballot in the face of an unfriendly house map and a more conservative midterm electorate.
The GOP might be in chaos, but the Democrats are in torpor.
They've been obliterated at the state level.
And that's what Iglesius writes here is the worst part of the problem for the Democrat Party in races that are collectively the most important state government.
That's grassroots.
Elections for state legislature rarely make the national news, but they are the fundamental building blocks of American politics.
Since state legislatures run the redistricting process for the U.S. House of Representatives and for themselves, they are where the greatest level of electoral entrenchment is possible.
And in the wake of the 2014 midterms, Republicans have overwhelming dominance of America's state legislatures in what Democrats should take as a further bleak sign.
Four of the eleven states where they control both houses of the state legislature, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Illinois, have a Republican governor.
So it's not slam dunk city for the Democrats, even when they own both houses of the state legislature.
Any serious article about the prospects for the Democrat Party policymaking in 2017 starts with the premise that Republicans will continue to hold a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
And then he lists the four premises under which that statement is made.
One striking fact about all of this is that the presumption of continued Republican control is so solid you don't even get pushback from House Democratic leaders when you write it down.
Meaning Iglesias is a leftist, he's a Democrat.
He runs and talks to these people about it.
They don't even tell him he's wrong.
Did you see the other day Nancy Pelosi offered to help the Republicans choose their speaker?
Now, did the Republicans accept, and I wouldn't.
They didn't.
Good.
Because I what an opportunity it would be to show they can cross the aisle and govern and cooperate, work for the other side.
Let Pelosi help them choose the speaker.
Man, what the independents would love that, right?
Dodged a bullet there.
You realize how close to how you bet there were some Republicans thinking of accepting her offer.
At any rate, you know all this, because I, Il Rushbo, have informed you.
But the point is, leftist millennials are reading this now.
Vox is a very, very popular site of all my little tech blogger buddies, for example.
I think they all have secret dreams of writing there someday, these little tech bloggers, some of them.
So it's going to be seen.
This is going to be seen by people otherwise would never think anything other than the Democrats run everything all the time everywhere.
Quick time out, we'll be back, don't go away.
One thing that Matthew McGlesius, I think, is not correct on, and that is that the Democrats do have a plan for overcoming the GOP majority and control in the states.
The Democrats are very, very much aware of what they've lost, and they're damn mad about it.
And when they get mad at you, look out.
Because when they lose elections, they blame voters.
They don't blame themselves.
They blame you.
You are fools, you are idiots, you're falling for Republican tricks, you're falling for me, Fox News, whatever it is, but you are damned idiots.
And that makes them mad, and you need to be shown a lesson for electing Republicans.
So the way they've got this all handled.
What do you think executive amnesty is?
It's many things.
It's of course Democrat voter registration.
It is fundamentally changing the culture of the United States.
There's no question.
But it's also a way of overcoming Republican control in these states.
What do you think sanctuary cities are all about?
Well, they're multifaceted, but one of the reasons for sanctuary cities is to blunt the fact that there might be a Republican mayor in a city one day, or a Republican governor in the state.
So amnesty and increased immigration is the way the Democrats are going to overcome the Republican electoral.
That's what's so damned important about stopping it.
The Democrats must be made to feel the effects of these losses.
When they lose, they must lose.
They craft ways to overcome their defeats outside the electoral process.
Amnesty, increased legal immigration is one of those uh techniques.
Democrat plan is to change the demographics of the voters in these states that are run by Republicans.
That's how they're doing it.
So they're they're actually they've adopted uh almost a new belief system that elections no matter.
They hate having to run for election anyway.
It's insulting.
It's beneath them to have to campaign.
They should be appointed by the czars.
And they should have lifetime appointments.
The fact that you people get to weigh in on it really ticks them off.
So the way to thwart the will of the people is to change the makeup of the people.
And if you do not have enough support from people here, then you import them.
Democrats need a permanent underclass.
The illegal immigration, hello, permanent underclass.
We're the Democrats, and we're happy to have you.
Here is Scott in Los Angeles.
We got him back.
He dropped off or he lost his connections.
So I'm glad you tried to get back into us here, Scott.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, so with Trump's response or or statement about Bush being, you know, or keeping us safe.
The one thing that I I'm reminded of is that it was Bush who changed the face of our nation, and the anger towards Bush led to Barack Obama.
You know, Bush Sr. made America mad and gave us Bill Clinton.
Bush Jr. made America mad and gave us Barack Obama.
So Trump, in a way, is kind of brilliant in saying that Bush didn't keep us safe because it was Bush's presidency who left the Bro led to Barack Obama.
And right now, I don't feel safe.
And that is kind of Bush's fault, as opposed to a legacy that led to another Republican.
He led to Barack Obama in in a landslide.
So you're going beyond the Trump political objective here, and you're actually signing on to the specifics.
So they say you feel unsafe.
By the way, Trump's point is Jeb Jeb, I mean, it was like a moth to a fly or flame alive.
Jeb just came right in.
My brother kept us safe.
And and Trump really?
He kept us safe?
The World Trade Center came down when he was president.
I mean, Jeb just walked right into it.
And so what you're saying is you still feel unsafe.
You you you uh still feel at risk.
I think that the world is a less safe place today than it was, you know, before 9-11 or during Bush's presidency, as opposed to somebody coming in behind Bush and making the world a better place.
If you look at the amount of deaths that we've had in Afghanistan, they've gone up, the Iraq, the deaths went up, the terrorism all over the world, uh the Middle East on fire, the the Muslim invasion of the world.
I mean, it's the world is not a safer place, and you could say that Bush's presidency upset the American electorate so much that they elected in Barack Obama and they didn't care what his own.
You know, this is the thing, though.
This is and I I'm I'm gonna play devil's advocate with it, and it doesn't matter.
It's this is just uh an exercise here in talking.
Is it Bush who made people mad, or is it what was said about Bush that he never defended or responded to?
I mean, ultimately, yeah, they they made their bed and they have to lay in it.
But but uh is it is it really Bush that made the people mad, or did the media succeed in telling everybody they ought to be mad that Bush lied and all in other words, did the campaign against Bush work.
Well, let me ask you this question.
Was Bush a leader who was able to combat the media's criticism of him?
Was he a good orator?
Was he able to stand out on the stage and say, Look, MSNBC, that's enough of this crap.
Well he just he just sat back and took it.
So you're you're correct, the media did create a negative narrative, but that's because Bush didn't take it.
And with all the criticism, yeah, but they had according to what they've told me.
I mean, from the horse's mouth, they had such reverence for the office, they didn't want to get down in a gutter with the people you talk about like an MSNBC and give them any valid credibility by talking about them and sully the office.
Hang on, Scott.
I want to keep talking to you after the break.
We are back with the articulate and well spoken Scott from Los Angeles.
Thank you, Russ.
You bet.
Now, you know, one of the things, uh and I I am as frustrated as anybody by the eight years of the Bush administration with no response or reaction to some of the slander to the libel to the lies of the same thing to Romney, he didn't respond.
And I'm I'm uh they telling what they told me.
So we're not gonna sully the office.
We revere the office.
We're not going to politicize it by responding to all of that garbage.
We're gonna stay above it.
Now, Carl Rovis said that it was a mistake, that some of the stuff they should have reacted to because they left their supporters hanging.
In one sense, everybody's clamoring for all of that BS that you referred to on MSNBC to be set straight, and nobody ever did from the top.
Now, one of the things that people like about Trump, Scott, is that he quickly eagerly pushes back against anybody that says one thing he thinks is wrong or incorrect about him, he does not put up with it, and that is I think in the top two or three reasons why people love the guy.
Let me let me s go back to something you just said there, and then and then I want to respond to something else.
If if the Bush administration made the mistakes and Rove said that we we made mistakes, why didn't they correct it with McCain or Romney?
Okay.
If Bush and Rove respected the office so much and they cared so much about the office, not responding, as you can see, has tarnished the office by putting Barack Obama in for eight years.
I can't dispute that.
So so their lack of respect for the office has allowed Barack Obama to destroy the office.
Now the media is our number one enemy, Rush.
Donald Trump is our warrior.
And when he responds right away, he shuts them up.
And they don't want it because you take a look, Donald Trump saying, Don't watch Megan Kelly.
Well, you know, I I didn't like the way that she acted in the first debate.
So I and I'm not a big fan of her show anyway, so okay, I'm not watching it.
But he's saying to people, look, enough of this crap.
Don't watch this stuff.
You want the truth, go find it someplace else.
You want unbiased stuff, go someplace else.
If the media is going to cover for Barack Obama, then they are our enemy.
Because the media could turn on Barack Obama and we could take him down tomorrow.
We could take Hillary down tomorrow, but it is the media who is our number one opponent.
And Donald Trump, and I like Newt Gingrich the last last go-round, attacks the media back and doesn't take any crap from the media.
And that is the only way to get our country back because right now the media is is like you play when you're media montage.
I wish you had one every single day.
The media drives the conversation in the narrative and some of the things that we're talking about.
That's exactly that the daily soap opera narrative, the daily script exactly, right?
And I've that's why I've been telling people try to resist it each and every day and not fall into it.
I I love it.
if there's one thing that bush supporters or republicans can get out of this is and i just just to take it back and think of if bush senior led to eight years of bill clinton and bush jr led to eight years of barack obama do you really want to find out what jeb bush would bring
Yeah, you I think you're you're you're voicing the opinion popularly held by a lot of people, particularly uh Republicans.
And it's it's patently evident.
I mean, you look at Jeb cannot, he can't start a fire much less catch one.
And it's um it's all of this has the Republican establishment inside out, upside down.
They do not know what hit them, and they have no idea how to deal with it.
And it's it's it's illustrating that the the voters are far more attuned to what's wrong with this country than inside Washington is, who don't think there's much wrong with it when you get right down to it.
They don't understand this idea that people out in the country think we're in a crisis.
What crisis?
Everything's fine.
We have five point one percent unemployment, the economy's growing, we run the house, we uh run the Senate.
What what's the problem, they say?
And and we're where's past people like uh like Mitt Romney coming out and and speaking for you know, speaking for the people, there's nobody representing the people.
I don't feel that, you know, the the candidates running besides Donald Trump, you know, and and I like Ben Carson, I like Ted Cruz, and and I think the three of them are are really to me the the three that we should listen to, and and I think if they teamed up together right now, we need a good Senate leader.
I think I think that Ted Cruz would do a great job as a Senate leader, and I think a a Trump Carson team with a Senate leader of Cruz would would really put us back in order.
Speaking of Cruz, let me just go and take the occasion of your call and your willingness to be outspoken here and ask you your thoughts on George W. Bush jumping all over Ted Cruz.
Did you I'm sure you've heard about this now.
Yeah.
And that was for those of you who haven't, it was at a private affair for donors in Denver, and George W. was giving his usual I've been to some of these, and he's really a different guy speaking off the cuff.
This is the thing that always you said Bush was not able to argue.
He was, he just didn't.
You should hear this guy when he's not on the teleprompter and not on a camera.
This this guy will run rings around anybody, and he he perfectly capable of it.
And it was the one of the most frustrating things in the world, and then not just to me, a lot of people know this.
I can remember does I I can't tell how many times I wished I could have George Bush on this show, the way he talks to donors, and the way he talks to people in private when there's nothing official going on.
But at any rate, he was doing one of these things in Denver and started talking about the latest presidential race and various people here.
When it came to Ted Cruz, he unloaded like he has never been known to unload on anybody before.
And the the general take here was that George Winks that Cruz is the number one opponent his brother faces, and that's way obviously W thinks that Trump's gonna fade and is not gonna be there, that Jeb is gonna be uh at the top of the heap here once this all settles out, and that Trump is his number one threat or uh uh uh Cruz is his number one threat.
And he just dumped all over him, and w uh when I saw this, I said, Well, George W. Bush has never spoken about Obama this way.
He's never spoken about any Democrat this way, but he launched on Cruz, which some of the best publicity Cruz has gotten in the campaign, by the way, based entirely on the theories you have already espoused in your call.
But what's your reaction to this?
I think that when you see a Republican or Rhino attacking another politician, it's usually they're attacking another Republican.
And they never attack the left with the viciousness that they'll attack the right.
As a matter of fact, they won't even like like Bush would just sit silent and let MSNBC CNN, NBC, ABC, all of them trash him.
Yet he turns around, he's got the knives out for a conservative, which tells you that maybe Bush is more Democrat, liberal, you know, rhino than than we ever gave him credit for.
And maybe the only things that made Bush redeeming to us is after 9-11 we looked to somebody and he was standing on top of a fire truck with a fireman.
Well, he was he was more than that.
You gotta get him his due after 9-11.
He did a great job, and he was a good leader after that.
But that became the focus of his presidency.
And it it all became about, you know, maybe we extended into Iraq.
I don't know this.
Maybe we extend it into Iraq to continue the I'm the great leader, I'm gonna keep you safe.
But all of these things eventually war on the American people and then turn the American people to the Democrat Party.
I just can't believe that he would go off on Cruz during the campaign this way, and and and the the rhinos would not sit together and look say, look, what is best for our country?
Why not?
I mean, what is best for the people.
A group of Bush donors is gonna be the epitome of the Republican establishment.
Sure.
And and Cruz is the establishment's number one enemy, number one elected Republican enemy.
Uh they hate it.
They literally despise him.
Um that's on display every time Cruz opens his mouth about something, be it on the floor of the Senate about McConnell or I mean Chuck Grassley.
Chuck Grassley, most of the time you see him, he looks like he's half asleep.
Even Chuck Grassley came alive to trash Ted Cruz.
You just don't see this.
Now Cruz can parlay this for the exact reasons that you are talking about here today.
Um but there's another tiny little aspect of this.
Here you've got a private off-the-record fundraiser dealer.
It's a thing for Jeb, and and he's he's using W as often as W will go, uh trying to shore up Jeb's campaign.
And it's an off-the-record thing.
They don't let any cameras or microphones into these stuff.
I've been to a couple of them, folks, and they are really closely guarded.
And the donors at this thing came out of there and tattled.
I mean, that's why we know this happened.
The donors came out and tattled.
So I don't know what it says about the brains of the donors in that room.
Uh, but it's it's not it does this this kind of news coming out of that meeting does not help uh Jeb uh at all, and it does it does help Cruz because it makes it look like the establishment is scared to death of the guy.
They'll always tell you your enemies will always tell you who they fear.
Leftist enemies, conservative Republican enemies.
The enemies will always tell you who or what they fear.
Scott, I gotta run, but I appreciate the call.
Really do.
Thanks for your time.
Glad you got back through, and we will be right back.
Welcome back.
L. Rushbo, talent on loan from God.
I knew this was gonna happen.
I just got uh a couple of emails.
Why all of this bashing a George W. Bush all of a sudden?
Have you forgotten the name Barack Obama?
I don't believe you, Rush.
Look how you're being sucked in.
What are you doing?
What are you falling for?
Folks.
You've got to put this in context.
If you want to know why, and I suspect people are reacting to the last caller uh as well as other things, but the reason this is happening is Donald J. Trump.
I mean, if you want to know, Donald J. Trump put it out there that 9-11 happened when George W. Bush was in office and we were not safe.
And he put it out there that Benghazi happened with Hillary Clinton, and you can't exonerate one or the other, and then he also today blame Bill Clinton.
He said you can't.
What Trump is doing is political.
But the uh it it's now on the table here.
Some things that have been protected.
Um discussion allowed things have been protected.
It's now uh the veil has been lifted.
And since Trump has mentioned this, people are weighing in on it, particularly Trump supporters.
And I think that there is a this last caller, I think happened to voice the thoughts or opinions of quite a few people.
I mean, there's real anger in this country over the fact Barack Obama was elected.
There's real anger that this has happened.
And so people are going back and attaching elements of history to try to explain why.
This last caller thinks that Barack Obama was set up by the incompetence of the Bush administration in defending itself against all of these scandalous, scurrilous, libelous, slanderous attacks.
Look, I don't want to repeat what the uh what the what the caller said, but that's the answer to the to the question.
It's uh and I dare say that if Jeb Bush were not in the race, this would have never come up.
Because the real target of this is Jeb Bush, not W. W is kind of collateral here.
As far as Trump is concerned, the real target's Jeb.
Anyway, back to the phones.
Rex in Pembs Creek, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hey Russ, good talking to you.
Megadetos from Steelers Country.
Yes, sir.
Hey, um, I had a comment sort of along the line of the last caller.
I'm a Ted Cruz supporter.
I saw um a couple of weeks ago that Ted Cruz said that if Trump were to get out of the race, he thinks that he would get the lion's share of Trump supporters.
And just wanted your opinion on that.
I found it interesting the way that Cruz has treated Trump.
Um almost gone out of his way not to attack him.
I don't know if that's because of Cruz of style and character or if it's a political calculation.
And I actually think that Cruz probably is in many ways the most similar candidate that we have in the GOP to Trump, even though there are obviously other star contrasts.
Why do you think Trump is going to get out of the race?
I don't think he is.
Oh, I thought I um and I'm not necessarily anti-Trump.
I would put him about fourth on my list.
But I was just uh in the article that I saw actually on Ted Cruz's uh Facebook page, um I quoted him as saying that he thought he was going to and that he felt like he would get most of the Trump supporters at that time.
Well, I think again, just off the cuff here.
I don't I I've not spoken to Ted Cruz about this.
But you're right, Cruz has refrained from joining the crowd piling on Trump.
And I do think it's strategic.
And I think it's strategic because I think Ted Cruz sees himself as the Donald Trump of the Republican Party.
He's he's he's an outsider inside.
He has hit them and hit them hard, as though he is an outsider, even though he's in the Senate as an elected Republican.
And I think he thinks that he is probably uh in the same vein as Trump, and is is not if exactly running a similar kind of campaign, but is is occupying the same place.
I've seen stories too about I forget where, and I don't remember authorship that that uh some people think Trump would be the uh the Cruz would be the natural heir of to the Trump constituency if Trump ever got out.
But Trump's that that talk is gonna have to stop at some point.
Uh Trump getting out.
And I know you said you didn't say that.
But this even though Trump is building his lead and uh Carson is staying right with him, and then the lower tier is fluid, the whole thing remains fluid, and the reason it does is because of Trump.
Trump is clearly running the daily news cycle of the Republican presidential campaign.
The media is not.
And that is another reason why there is overwhelming support for Trump is that he's running the agenda.
He's in charge of it.
He's putting the media through hoops.
And he's the first candidate, Republican side that's come along and been able to do this.
And so I um I know a lot of Ted Cruz fans, uh, and they've been curious why Trump uh Cruz, I'm sorry to complete them, why Cruz hasn't done better in the polls than he is.
And it's because Trump has come along and basically occupies that position, but he genuinely is uh an outsider.
Anyway, I'm up against it on time here, so I have to interrupt myself.
But uh Rex, I appreciate the call.
We'll be right back, folks.
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