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Feb. 24, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The point was, how could I not have been clear yesterday?
How in the world could you have not understood what I was talking about?
This blows my mind.
I'm feeling like Trump here.
What do you mean you don't get what I was saying?
It was very, very clear.
We had a lady call who said we need to go back to the days of Reagan when everybody was unified.
I said we weren't unified.
She said we have 49 state landslides.
I said, yes, but if we were so unified, I mean we came together on elections, but it's so unified.
We had the we had record prosperity.
We had record creation of wealth.
We had low unemployment.
We had low deficits.
We had the biggest economic boom post-World War II in those, well, actually the last six years of Reagan.
What happened to it?
Why didn't it last?
My only question, Joe, why didn't it last?
Why are we here today?
Why didn't the people alive, experiencing all of that, understand what was going on?
How did how were they talked out of it and elected Bill Clinton sh a few short four years later?
After Reagan left.
And of course, the discussion of that is eye-opening and instructive, and that's all I was getting at yesterday.
We can we can have eight years.
In fact, the Reagan boom went through the mid-90s for crying out loud.
We all of that prosperity and all those good economic times, people were living through and they were still able to be talked out of it.
All right, I'll expand on it even further today, because I think it's a it's a the reason it's important to me, the reason the lady's call lit me up, and it was nothing to do with her, I mean I wasn't there's not personal to her, but she said we need somebody, and she was for Rubio, I think, which we need somebody that can unify us.
That's not the answer here.
We're never gonna be unified.
We're not gonna be unified with Bernie Sanders supporters.
They don't want to be unified, but we're not gonna be unified with Hillary Clinton.
We have to beat them.
And once we beat them, they have to stay beaten.
That's the way they look at us.
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All right, I'm getting tired of something.
I'm getting a little tired of everybody in the establishment, everybody in the media talking about how anger is the driving force of this all as though it is a disqualifier.
As though the anger that is propelling this election makes the results illegitimate.
That's what the establishment's trying to tell us, as what the drive-by media is trying to tell us, as what Axelrod's trying to tell us and a bunch of Democrat analysts, all this anger out here, it's irrational.
It's kooky.
Well, let me let me throw something at you here on this.
See, I think the anger is totally understandable.
I think it's called for.
I think the anger, there ought to be a little bit more of it, if you ask me.
But how come when uh some downtrodden group in America, when the gay lobby is mad, we're supposed to take time outstand the rage and learn from it?
When Saudi Islamists hijacked three airplanes and crashed the World Trade Center in the Pentagon and another Washington target, why do we take time out to say, gee, why do they hate us?
What have we done to make them so mad?
And then they're we're told that we must we must not react irrational here.
We must try to understand their rage.
Why?
Because it's our fault, we're told.
Something that we did as a nation.
State Department had seminars after 9-11.
What did we do to make them hate us?
But you notice in this anger, it's directed where it's direct the Washington establishments, the Washington establishment ever saying, We need to pause.
We need to have a timeout.
We need to find out why they're so mad at us.
We need to just go, what have we done wrong?
Wouldn't that be the consistent thing?
Except that's not the case in the case of the anger on the Republican side propelling this primary season.
Everybody is saying it's irrational, it's kooky, it's irresponsible, it's insane.
Nobody is saying, hey, why are they mad?
What did we do to make them so mad?
Maybe we need a seminar or two over here at some lobbyist's office to figure out why they're so mad at us.
Why is it not the case?
Why is the anger propelling the Republican primary vote automatically disqualified as unhinged, irrational, and yet the anger of terrorists blowing us to smithereens, the anger of illegal immigrants breaking our laws to get in the country, the anger of every minority group ticked off and basically being unhappy in life.
We're supposed to stop, we're supposed to understand the rage, we're supposed to learn from it, and what we're supposed to learn from it is that it's our fault.
Okay, well, I'd like to turn that right around on the Republican and the entire Washington establishment.
Why don't you people take a little time out instead of mischaracterizing the anger?
Why don't you follow your own guidelines and try to learn from it?
Why don't you try to ask yourself, what have you done that made everybody so mad?
You know, don't folks don't let them do this to you.
They're trying to make you think that you are a wacko.
Some of you may be, but I mean, not because of your anger.
Do not let them convince you that there's something wrong with you because your emotions are at a feverish pitch in this campaign, they ought to be.
What are you laughing at in there?
Well, I mean, in a large group of people, you're gonna have a certain percentage of them going to be kooks.
Um and most kooks actually don't know who they are.
If they did, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing, right?
But the ugly, for example, they know who they are.
That's that's I mean, you can't his way of rationalizing, but it's it's it's it's important in in policy and dealing with these various things.
Okay, let's go to Nevada here.
Trump wins third time in a row by margins that actually outstrip most of the optimistic polls.
And this is kind of interesting because I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Story here from the uh, what is this?
The uh the hill.com, Rubio Trump underperformed in Nevada caucuses.
So amazing analysis from number two.
Oh, I we gotta get to John Kasich, too.
Everybody started saying, what is he hanging around for?
I can tell you exactly what he's hanging around for.
Do you know what he's hanging around for?
You don't?
I'll give you a hint.
It's not to win Ohio.
That's not why John, even if he won Ohio, big whoop, that's all he's gonna win, and oh, damn right he does.
He's and everybody's got it wrong.
Everybody's thinking that what ought to happen is that Rubio ought to go to Kasich and sign him up as his VP, and that'd get Kasich out of the race and takes Kasich six or seven or whatever points he's got added to Rubio, makes it a real race.
That's why would Kasich go to Rubio's not gonna win?
Ruby hadn't won anything yet.
That's another thing.
Rubio, another second place, second place, second place.
We're talking about Ruby.
Rubio hasn't won diddly squat, Trump's running away with this.
The only guy that's beat Trump so far is Cruz.
Cruz needs to make some adjustments, I think.
But no, Kasich.
I know I well, I don't know, but I mean I'm common sense that he's hanging around waiting for Trump to ask him to be VP.
Why sign up with somebody's not gonna win this thing?
Why wouldn't you want to be the VP of the front runner?
Which would be Donaldus Macnumus.
The Trumpster.
Why wouldn't you sign up with him if you're from from Kasich standpoint?
That's what I think he's doing.
This is it for Kasich.
I mean, he's uh he's not gonna win this.
He's not gonna be any more than governor unless he becomes somebody's VP.
63, 64 years old, whatever.
And this is his this is the biggest shot that he's gonna get, so I'm sure that's why he's hanging on.
And if he can do well in Ohio, that could send a signal.
You got Trump, Trump could arguably say some Florida, he could arguably say some New York.
Trump can say he's wherever his plane happens to be that day, and Kasich from Ohio, that's what I think Casey's doing.
Uh in Casey kind of telegraphed it when he told a crowd, you said, I don't know what I'm doing here.
Did you see that?
I don't know that I'm in this to win the presidencies, and I'm I'm I'm just in this, and we'll just see where it all falls out.
We'll just see where it goes.
Well, where it's going, I'm sure Kasich's told All of his people stay off the phones, wait for the call to be VEP from somebody.
And if Rubio calls him to be VEP, he'd have to take the call, he'd have to consider it.
But why would he do that?
Why would he do it?
The only reason to do that would be on the cum on on the theory that, okay, if I take my my support here, my voluminous support of whatever it is, six points of seven points.
And then I add that to Rubio's.
And that's the way I'm gonna get to the vice presidency.
I don't think he's gonna see it that way.
But I could be wrong.
Look, that's not my business.
I'm just a commentator here on the radio, responsible for all of this mess.
Oh, yeah, it's still going on.
I mean, they brought Fred Barnes on a Fox to talk about it yesterday, David Asmond did.
I don't even want to get into it.
It's it's it happens every election.
Every election, the people don't get they want what they want, it's my fault.
It is.
Whoever's losing, it's my fault for not signing up.
It's my fault for not endorsing, it's my fault for not doing this.
And the winners all think that I've been on their side.
And they all thanking me and praising me.
So, and I haven't done, I'm not doing anything differently.
But anyway, Rubio is is uh saying, he said, well, this is Wednesday, right?
Rubio said that uh Trump had underperformed, underperformed in the Nevada caucus.
He said last time Mitt Romney got over 50%, so Trump actually underperformed what Romney did, not once, but twice in this state.
Ruby Over's and Fox and Friends today.
And he was talking about 2008-2012.
Well, I hate that I hate to break it to him, but uh this was a slam knock.
Let me find the the turnout was a record.
The turnout was an all-time high.
In 2008, the turnout was 44,000 Republican side, Nevada caucus.
In 2012, it was 32,000.
Yesterday, 73,000.
Yesterday's turnout was almost exactly equal to the combined turnout of 2008 and 2012.
And Trump won 46%.
He's looking at this, he says Mitt Romney, whatever percentage round they got in terms of real votes is in Trump's rear view mirror, no matter how you slice this.
But I understand what Rubio's doing.
I mean, Rubio wants to stay in this and considered to be a very close front runner and all kinds, you know, perception is reality, so try to get it out there that Trump underperformed.
Because that would be a first if uh uh outside of Iowa.
But anyway, let's go through the uh the rest of this.
Trump wins Nevada third primary slash caucus in a row by margins that actually outstrip most of the polls that were optimistic.
He actually did better.
He outperformed the poll.
There might be a Trump effect out there going on.
There might be, meaning fewer people say they're gonna vote for Trump than actually do.
I mean, more people vote for him than say so in polls, because he's overperforming, he's outperforming the polls.
And for a third time in a row, the Republican turnout broke all previous records, and again in Nevada, turnout yesterday was almost equal to the combined turnout of 08 and uh and 12.
Trump even won by a percentage that exceeds the total.
Now, here's the thing about this.
I realize you had to stay up until what, 11.30 or midnight last night to have any idea what was happening.
And there was there was a uh I don't know.
Attitudinally, I think a lot of people, Nevada, it's way out there.
It's casinos.
Come on, it just doesn't matter what happens.
Nevada primary, no big deal.
And then you see that the Republicans that live there to uh showed up in a record number.
And you find out that there isn't any off state here.
There isn't any state where people are ho-hum about this.
The news preliminarily to Nevada did not make Nevada look nearly as big as South Carolina, for example.
Or Iowa, New Hampshire.
It was just kind of the next spot, but it was sandwiched there.
What really was important is what's coming next.
Nevada is kind of a speed bump.
And then you see all this turnout.
It was huge in Nevada, like it has been everywhere else.
Now Trump won by a percentage that exceeds the totals of the next two candidates combined.
Trump got 45.9.
So we'll round that off.
People Rio Linda can more easily follow us here.
46% for Trump.
Rubio and Cruz votes combined add up to 45.
Rubio at 24 and Cruz at 21 and a half.
And once again, Trump uh won all groups.
He won very conservative voters, 38%.
He won somewhat conservative voters, 50%.
He won moderate voters, 55%.
Look, this is moderates.
Look at why are you shocked?
What I I have been saying for I don't know how long.
Trump's coalition is exactly what the Republican Party for all these years have been claiming they want.
He's got he got people from every ethnic group and sizable percentages of them.
He's got, he's out there, there's a question in the sound bites.
The CNN, they can't figure it out.
Somebody asked Gloria Borger, Gloria, why is it that so many Hispanics are supporting Trump when he insults them every day?
She didn't have an answer for it.
Well, you know, anger.
They don't have an answer for it.
To this day, they can't explain this.
That's I understand that.
Moderates are supposed to be turned off by anger.
This this look, but you you know as well as I do that's nothing more than a liberal democrat trick to get the Republicans to shut up about what they believe.
It's exactly right.
Republicans who believe don't criticize Obama.
Don't be seen as shutting down the government.
Don't disagree.
Oh my God, you're gonna be seen as an obstructionist and not wanting to make Washington work and the independent's not gonna like it, I've got to run right to the Democrats.
Well, you can't find somebody that's more angry, angry, obstinate in your face, insulting.
I mean, everything that the Republicans believe turns off moderates.
Trump is hoovering them up.
So here we go again.
Let's let me just start.
Don't interrupt me here.
Very conservative, Trump gets 38%, somewhat conservative, Trump gets 50%, moderate voters 55%.
He won both men and women.
He won voters in every age group over 30.
He won evangelical voters as well as non-evangelicals.
And of course, the drive-bys are scratching their heads on, they don't understand how in the world that can be happening.
And it's very simple how it can be happening.
All these people on the left think that every conservative is a monolith.
And if you're an evangelical, it's evangelical or bust, and that's all you care about, which is pro-life or whatever.
And if you're something, and it's not the mosaic that makes up support on the right wing, is as intricately woven as anything they have on the left.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
We will be back.
Ha, how are you?
Why, you know, I just got an email.
It amazes me.
Uh some things that people will think I would answer.
Dear Rush, who do you think's the most attractive female anchor on Fox?
Who in their right mind would think I would even answer that?
I don't have an answer.
See, here we go.
Snerdley is looking at me with his eyes getting he's now pondering it.
Uh anyway, a couple of more breakouts uh here.
No, don't run down.
You realize there's no there's there's no chance here.
Even if I had an answer, there's no chance at announcing it.
What I would probably be on safer ground endorsing a candidate than answer that question.
Anyway, I always say I'm fascinated by the way people think.
And and only Fox, By the way, I was not asked, you know, the other networks they were not part of the request.
Trump won Evangelicals by 40 to 23 over Ted Cruz.
That has everybody stunned.
And I'm sure it has people in the uh in the cruise campaign scratching their head as well.
Despite all the predictions to the contrary, except for South Carolina, Trump's numbers with evangelicals have been getting better with each vote.
In Iowa was Cruz 34 Trump 22, Evangelicals.
New Hampshire, Cruz 23, Trump 38.
South Carolina Cruz 27, Trump 33, non-Nevada Cruz 23, Trump 40.
The figure that's really blowing the minds of the drive-bys.
Trump even won Hispanics in Nevada.
His numbers match the combined numbers of Rubio and Cruz who are Hispanic.
Whoa, back in a second.
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Here's the Kasich story.
I'm not exactly sure what the goal is.
In fact, we may have.
Let me check the audio sound by Roscoe.
We may have.
I think I saw this.
We didn't.
Pardon me, folks, when I go, there's we for as tech advanced as I am.
This is a paper project.
And I don't have a master list of, so I just gotta go through here to Casey, Kasich, Casey.
I thought I saw it.
Maybe I don't have it.
Yeah, okay, we don't have it.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter, cookie, don't sweat it.
It'll be too late by the time I read this, it's no big deal.
No big deal.
Kasich.
I'm not exactly sure what the goal is.
Here's the story.
This is from uh it's a YouTube uh uh video, but the where did I see this?
Last night.
I've been watching it and I've I read a story, but here's the way it uh written.
John Kasich's relentlessly positive stump speeches can often feel like motivational seminars, but on a rainy Tuesday night in Georgia.
It sounded like Kasich was trying to motivate himself.
Here's what I know.
I know I'm doing my best, he told a crowd of 100 supporters who had spilled outside of the Sandy Springs City Hall that was too small to accommodate those who would change.
Are you kidding me?
They're trying to make it sound like a huge crowd there with a hundred people, and it was so big it had to spill out.
And it was held in a city hall.
Anyway, Kasich said, I'm following the purpose that I think has been laid out for me, and to achieve that goal, and then he paused.
Well, I'm not exactly sure what the goal is.
Some might say it's being elected president.
Maybe it's a different goal.
And he went on to say that he's just letting things play out.
He doesn't really know what the goal is.
Now, how does that let's say you're a Kasich supporter, let's say you've even given him money.
Let's say that you've been raising money for Kasich.
And he's speaking at a large crowd, a hundred people.
So big the overflow was spilling out the doors of a small town city hall.
And then Kasich says, I'm not exactly sure what the goal is.
I'm following the purpose that I think's been laid out for me to achieve that goal.
Somebody, what's the goal?
Well, I'm not exactly sure.
What the goal is.
Politico had a story yesterday morning, headline, GOP to Kasich, get out, arguing that Kasich is hurting Cruz, and that Kasich is hurting Rubio and their chances to consolidate the uh the not Trump vote.
This is gonna be a close call because I'm not sure of the numbers here, but I think even if you add right now Trump or Cruz and Rubio, you still don't equal Trump, do you?
Or maybe no, you do, you you, depending on the poll.
And there are a lot of people still running around talking about, okay, Trump's let's let's give him 40% we've Got Nevada.
It still means 60% of Republican primary voters want somebody other than Trump.
That is one way of looking at it.
But then ask yourself this.
Let's say that Marco Rubio, after assessing the fact that he hasn't yet won a primary, decides to exit the race.
It's just an exercise here.
And let's give uh Rubio what 18%.
If Cruz is 18% 36%, so using our numbers, they're combined still are a little bit short of Trump.
But let's give Rubio just for the sake of this hypothetically, 18%.
Are all 18% going to go to Cruz?
You know, in the in the Cruz versus Rubio scenario, there's some people on both sides that detest the other guy.
You get some Rubio supporters that don't like Cruz at all, or vice versa.
You've got some Cruz supporters that really don't trust Rubio, don't like him whatsoever.
Trump's going to get some of those.
It's not enough to say, and the establishment's relying on this.
They still are in this denial.
They're still relying on the fact that a majority of Republican voters want something, somebody other than Trump.
And so if they get these guys out of the race, and say get Kasich out, get Carson out, and say get get Rubio out, then that sets it up with Cruz and Cruz going to pick up all these votes and be dwarfing Trump.
But Trump's going to get some of those.
And I don't know what the breakout would be, but it's it's not realistic to think that every anti-Trump vote is going to stay anti-Trump as candidates get out.
But it's all academic anyway, because nobody's getting out.
And Kasich is staying in to be asked by anybody to be VP.
That's and I'm sure he doesn't want to say that.
I'm sure he knows this.
I'm sure this is what he wants.
He can't say it.
That would not be politic.
Hey, John Kasich, what's your goal staying in the race?
I want to be asked to be vice president by one of these guys.
Just wouldn't go over well.
But that's what it is.
And Kasich thinks that he's got a huge carrot to dangle, being the state of Ohio, that he's a governor, he's a popular governor, and that that the Republicans cannot win unless they win Ohio.
But then you might have to throw that out, because what if, again, hypothetical?
What if Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan all of a sudden become in play for the Republicans because of Trump?
So then Ohio's not singularly important.
Not that it would never be not be a factor.
But anyway, that's a bunch of offshoots.
I think that's what Kasich is hanging on for.
And I think he's hanging on for Trump.
Well, have you?
No, I don't recall.
Have you heard, have you heard Kasich in any of the debates go after Trump by name?
You have not.
Kasich has been pretty clever about this.
He's gone after everybody else as being childlike, and all this bickering, it's got to stop.
He's kind of spoken about all of them collectively, as he has attempted to elevate himself as the adult and the reasonable one and so forth and the responsible choice.
And we've got to stop beating each other up.
We gotta, but he's not going after Trump personally.
He hasn't gone after Cruz personally, as he's going after Rubio.
And I think for a uh for a reason.
Just like somebody called here yesterday.
You'd think maybe Trump would pick Cruz to be no that I don't know how that would happen now.
I mean, Trump is getting close to defaming Cruz with some of these allegations about not being Christian, not being religious, waving the Bible while lying.
I mean, some of this stuff is really vicious.
And it didn't, it doesn't matter in any campaign, the most conservative guy is always gonna end up being the target, and that's Cruz right now.
The unquestionably conservative candidate is always gonna be the target of the slings, the arrows, and uh and all that.
I don't know how that could happen with Cruz becoming and I don't think well, I don't know.
Cruz and Rubio are relatively young.
I mean, their political futures are still ahead of them.
If this doesn't work out, they've got time to run it.
Kasich, that's not a casick really doesn't, is uh what is he, 63, 64?
Uh putting past 70 before the next chance, the legitimate chance to do this again would come up.
So I that's that's why I think VP is uh is what's on his mind.
In you now, there's another chapter of this, too.
This is from the New York Times, rivals no more, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush talk and agree to meet.
Since uh Jeb's withdrawal from the presidential race on Saturday, endorsements from prominent Republicans have been piling up for Rubio.
Just in the last day, Senator Bob Dola, Kansas, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, Governor Asa Hutcheson of uh Arkansas have signed on to Rubio.
But there's one endorsement that remains elusive, and that's Jeb's.
And Rubio made a point on Monday when word leaked that some of Jeb's money was going to Rubio and some of it and Ben Jeb might even be thinking.
Rubio went public and said, No, no, no, no, Jeb's not endorsed me.
He knew it was not the time for that.
No, no, no, Jeb is not endorsed me.
He wanted everybody to know.
Speaking of Jeb's money going to Ruby, folks, do you realize how much?
A hundred and fifteen million dollars was spent, was raised, donated to Jeb Bush.
What did the people who donated that money get?
If you look at it, I mean, these people don't give this money just because they like the family.
Well, take that back.
Some of them do.
That's the only, but most of them give this money access to have some say in the leverage of power should the candidate they back win.
No great mystery here.
So isn't it interesting how fluidly and blithely people say, Oh, yeah, well, the Jeb money is going to go to Ruby.
The Jeb money's gone.
There's only $15 million left of the Jeb money.
Now, some of that could go to other candidates, but they got to start raising it all over again.
That's a lot of money we're talking about here to ask people to donate first to some guy who doesn't get there and now throw in again on Rubio, because he's got the establishment backing, but he hasn't won anything yet.
Hill Rushmore at the EIB Network.
Back after this, folks.
Do not go away.
And here's Dylan in Chico, California, as we start on the phones today.
Dylan, it's great to have you here.
What can I do for you, sir?
Uh hi, Rex.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Um, I just know uh I know why there's such a diversity um in votes when it comes to Trump.
It's because he said he won't let the people die in the streets.
He said that numerous times, and people see that he has a heart, opposed to popular democratic opinion that the Republicans are racist and we only care about the rich.
Okay, uh you are you from what angle are you coming at this, Dylan?
Are you a Trump supporter?
Yes, I am.
Are you Republican or Democrat?
I'm Republican.
You're Republican.
Do you think people are dying in the streets, or do you think people believe people are dying in the streets because Republicans don't care?
Well, I think they're uh I think a lot of people die in the streets, no matter what.
But uh, I mean, his health care plan he hasn't really been too specific about it, but I think that he will set aside some money for people that can't afford health insurance, opposed like to Obamacare, where a lot of people can't even afford it.
You're talking about Trump here.
Yeah.
Trump's gonna set aside money for people who are dying in the streets that they'll have health care so they won't die in the street.
Well, that's what he yeah, that's that's what you think the fact that he's saying that is why he's getting a wide variety of support, diversity for.
Well, not just that, people also see that he has a heart.
They're like a lot of Democrats that think that Republicans are so heartless, you know, because uh thanks to Hillary and everybody else acting that way.
Uh people they actually see see him saying that um in interviews and stuff.
They actually say that he see that he has a heart, and he's very honest because he uh he you know, people come at him at all angles and he doesn't deny, you know, that he used to be somewhat you know.
So basically what you're saying is that Trump is using Democrat language as a Republican to reach out to potential Democrat voters, and uh essentially the Democrats think the Republicans are heartless.
The Democrats think the Republicans are mean spirited and all that, and are letting people die in the streets.
So Trump saying he's not gonna let people die in the streets is a direct appeal to Democrats to show that he's not your typical Republican.
Absolutely, but I also think that they know that he's being genuine about it because he's been honest the whole time he's been running for for uh president.
Well, I don't know.
It's not just saying that.
He they also genuinely believe that he will try to do that.
And so he's getting a lot of votes, and a lot of people that don't want Hillary, you know, because they they just think he's a liar, and they don't want Bernie Sanders because they don't want to go socialist.
A lot of people are going towards him because of that reason, because he's because you know they they do believe that he's he's he's not just a hard.
Right, but you're speaking.
You're speaking primarily though of Democrat voters that don't like Hillary, don't like Bernie for whatever reason, and so Trump has found a way to appeal to them, but you think he's being honest about it.
He's just not just saying it.
He actually is honest and they are they're buying it.
Absolutely, yeah, and also the independent voter, too.
The independent voter, yeah.
Well, I uh look, I I don't I was the first to suggest that Trump is doing this.
I was the first to suggest after witnessing that debate in South Carolina, I was the first to say that Trump's making a play for Democrat voters by going after Bush, going after Iraq, by going after 9-11, by going after weapons of mass destruction, going after Republicans in ways only Democrats do, was an open primary.
Uh so I can see your thinking on this.
Uh by the way, the Democrat side, I was talking earlier, I meant to throw something in.
You know, Bernie.
Sanders is is not, folks, it's it's looking really bad all of a sudden for Bernie, but the problem is that Democrat turnout.
There is no Democrat turnout that's commensurate with any kind of a gigantic movement that would be led by Bernie Sanders.
I mean, the media's portraying Bernie is leading this revolutionary army of people.
There isn't any revolution because look at the Democrat turnout.
It's microscopic.
The Democrat turnout so far in every caucus in primary is way below what it was in 08, and way below what it was in 2012.
And that's not related here to what Dylan said.
It's just I meant to mention this earlier when talking about the uh Republican turnout.
Okay, so to comment on what you said, I will grant that you may have a point that Trump is doing this and that he means my problem with it, Dylan.
I'm the mayor of Realville.
That means I'm a literalist.
And that also means I am really uh unique.
I'm in a small group of people.
Most people are not literal.
Most people speak in generalities and expect people to understand them.
I take people at what they say.
If they don't say it, then I don't think they have said it.
And if they say something, I believe that they mean it.
And when Trump talks about people dying in the street, I'm sorry, I I I I separate myself because we don't have people dying in the street.
Not because of health care.
Now, you you might be able to make the case that there are people passing away, homeless people pass away here and there.
But we do not have a systemic problem of people dying on the street in the United States of America.
So you're I agree with you why Trump is saying so.
It's a crossover comment.
But uh what he needs to add, in my view, is that if there are people dying in the street because of health care, it's the fault of the Democrat parts of Obamacare, and it's obviously bombing out and failing here.
Well, another sterling example of broadcast excellence first hour in the can on the way over to Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, the virtual museum at uh rushlimbaugh.com.
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