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March 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, uh m mister Mr. Snerdley has just been throwing the Bernie Sanders line back at me that uh that uh that that white folks don't know what it's like to be poor in this part of the world.
This this part of the world, you know.
Every uh th th th there's towns here where the economy is basically the first week of the month, because that's when the food stamps kick in.
And uh that's when the uh general store arranges for all the the the shelves to be groaning with all the delights.
That's when they that's that's how it's reoriented the uh entire ordering system.
The shelves are full for the first days in the month when the uh when the food stamps kick in.
And uh and uh that's Bernie Sanders Vermont.
That's uh you go you go from me to Bernie Sanders home and you go and through one loser town after another.
And uh but Bernie Sanders says there are no poor white people in Vermont.
And you go to some of these general stores, and they don't actually know what kind they you you you you hand them a food stamp, the food stamp card, whatever they call the EBT card or whatever it is, and they know what that is.
You'd like fish out a twenty dollar bill and they say, Oh, sorry, we don't take Canadian currency here.
They never seen it.
They don't know what it is.
That's uh that's Bernie Sanders Vermont.
There's no poor people, no poor white people in Bernie Sanders, Vermont.
It's the magical land of Oz.
And he's the king of the Emerald City.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush.
Rush is at a charity engagement.
He is a man of honor, and he is a man of his word, and every year he does this charity engagement, and he's out.
So even though it was a turbulent weekend on the political front, uh he honored his charity commitment, and he will be back because he's busting to talk to you about where the race stands right now, and uh he will take you through the rest of the week with full strength, authentic all American excellence in uh broadcasting.
And uh it's it's a very uh strange race.
Matt Schlapp was talking about uh the way a year ago people were talking about the strong bench, the seventeen uh candidates and all the rest of it's come down to a final four now.
It's gonna be one of these guys.
But one of the things, by the way, that has changed since these election results, when you've got seventy to eighty percent of the vote going to Cruz and Trump.
They're an interesting pair to me, because um I get the sense that actually when they insult each other, neither of them really cares about it one way or the other.
I think that's just sort of strictly business.
I think uh uh Trump has called Cruz Lion Ted and says he's not eligible to be president and uh and and Cruz has uh uh has uh pushed back on that uh fairly hard and mocked his failed ventures and gotten to the right on him on immigration.
But I wouldn't rule out uh a a uh Trump and Cruz actually getting together before the convention.
These guys these guys aren't stupid, and it's and if it's uh and they've got if if they've got more in common uh than not getting on and letting the party parachute in uh some so called acceptable candidate uh in a in a brokered convention.
So the net result of this of the winnowing of the race may not be a s a stop Trump uh candidate, but actually uh be the means by which Trump and Cruz wrap this thing up going forward and come to some kind of deal.
I dunno.
I don't know.
That's that uh if you look at the actual votes, if you look at states where they're getting seventy to eighty per cent i but that's basically the ban, all four of these states, uh except for uh Puerto Rico, where uh Marco Rubio got seventy per cent, and uh none of those guys can vote in November.
But in the places where people can vote in November, Cruz and Trump got a combined seventy to eighty percent.
I talked about that big L. The the the when when George Bush the Second won in two thousand, he had a kind of big L going down to the Rockies and out through the south to the Atlantic.
It wasn't a perfect L because he didn't um uh he he didn't win New Mexico.
So it looked like one of those heeled boots that Marco Rubio favors.
But he had just that little extra blip up in New Hampshire, the four votes that took him to two seventy, and that's the minimum.
That's the minimum.
So we can have conservative purity tests, but in the end in the end, uh you have to ask yourself who you w whoever you go with, um has got to be able to put uh New Hampshire or Colorado in the back just to reassemble that bare bones two seventy uh that George Bush got in the year two thousand.
You gotta have New Hampshire and a lot of those states, a lot of uh red states have gone awfully purple, like Virginia and New Hampshire.
A lot of states have gone awfully purple since the year 2000, and some purple states have gone blue.
And uh the choice is can Ted Cruz put Colorado or New Hampshire in the bag?
If you're a Cruise supporter, I'd love to hear from you on that.
Because uh Rush was talking about this the other day.
He watched uh Cruz's speech on Super Tuesday uh uh and Cruz's debate performance, and he wondered whether he was uh, particularly after Super Tuesday, whether he was kind of narrow casting rather than broadcasting.
In other words, if he was too focused on his strategy was supposedly to appeal to two groups, ideological conservatives and evangelical Christians.
And evangelical Christians basically gave him the bums rush on Super Tuesday.
And Rush, who knows Ted Cruz far better than I do, I've had I think uh, you know, a couple of minutes of engagement with him uh that's all.
Um he seems a very nice fellow and all the rest of it.
But but Rush's suggestion was that Cruz has a broader appeal and that he's kind of giving himself putting himself in a kind of slightly narrow box at the moment.
And he's got to be able to broaden that appeal, because come November, as I said, it's very simple, it's all about arithmetic.
If you're gonna get to 270 electoral votes, you've got to have Colorado or New Hampshire in there.
The other the other version of history is uh that uh that model, that's basically the Carl Rove model.
Uh Carl Rove uh in basically thought that George Bush Senior's victory, where you win California and you win two-thirds of New England, that that's all over, that's gone.
That map can never be put together again.
California and New England are lost to Republicans in perpetuity, and that you win by maximizing your turnout into a much narrower group of states.
Forty this century, this century, forty states have voted the same way in every presidential election.
So there's two approaches to presidential elections.
Either you're like uh you you focus on those ten genuine swing states, and they're all that matter, and you try and you try and find enough soccer moms in this or that county to get to the polling station before seven p.m. on a Tuesday night, and that'll give you six of those swing states and put you over the top.
Trump is promising, he's saying, Oh, I'm huge, and so my victory will be huge, and all these big delegate states that have been in the Democrat bag for ages, like New York State, I'm gonna put back in play.
The there's the evidence for that is well, you'd have to say it's pretty mixed, but that's what he's promising.
The question for the other Republican candidates is can you put Colorado or uh or uh New Hampshire back in the bag?
There's even among on the anti-Trump side, they're now anti-Trump factionalism, some anti-Trump factions against other anti-Trump factions.
Um Glenn Beck on ABC compared uh compared Donald Trump to uh Adolf Hitler in 1929.
Everyone said, Well, who is it?
Andy Warhol said in the future everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes.
I think forget that.
Uh Hitler.
So Glenn Beck has said that Trump is a lot like Hitler.
Kathy Schadel, who is a Canadian blogger, said uh that she was a lot more worried that Trump would turn out to be like that other Austrian um Arnold Schwarzenegger, who turned out to be a completely useless governor of California.
He couldn't terminate the terminator couldn't terminate a single thing.
He was completely useless as governor.
Left no trace, left no footprints.
He's there's no sign the Terminator was ever there.
Uh and uh and so the question is which Austrian sinister Austrian is Glenn is uh is Trump more like?
Glenn Beck says Hitler, my compatriot Kathy Schadel says she's worried he'd just turn out to be another Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But but Glenn Becker said he doesn't want a closed convention, a contested convention.
He wants Cruz, and Cruz himself has said this, that he wants to win out there with the votes of the people.
You know, everyone keeps talking about these brokered conventions.
They like it.
They've seen it in old movies.
You've got the guys in the smoke-filled rooms uh horse trading, and it all sounds great.
But you can't have the smoke-filled room and the horse trading after you've had six months and millions and millions and millions of votes.
And in that sense, Glenn Beck is now being attacked by the never Trump people, uh, because he's saying he doesn't want a contested convention.
And uh Cruz himself has said he doesn't want a contested uh convention.
He wants to win votes.
And Trump uh keeps talking about winning votes while not quite winning enough votes.
And that's the best way to kill this uncertainty is for someone to be unambiguously the people's choice and win a majority of delegates at the convention.
I s I looked at the arithmetic uh when we began this show, and uh Trump is about eighty votes ahead of Cruz.
But Trump won two states and Cruz won two states on Saturday.
Fact is Cruz came out ahead with more delegates.
So Trump Trump can't present himself as this movement as this phenomenon if his results are getting less and less phenomenal, and that's why Michigan is going to be such a critical state.
Mi Michigan is a state that uh ought Trump ought to do well in.
It's one if you're talking about ideological conservatives and you're talking about evangelical Christians, it shouldn't be fertile ground for Ted Cruz.
So if Ted Cruz winds up giving uh Trump a run for his money in Michigan tomorrow, it will be a w a sign of weakness in the Trump uh in the Trump camp.
We'll talk about that and take your call straight ahead.
One eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Mark Stein in for rush.
Hey, Mark Stein for Rush.
I'm getting tons of complaints saying, hey, uh Marco Rubio won uh Minnesota.
What where do you care?
I was very careful in my choice of words.
I said Puerto Rico represented his first primary win.
Minnesota is a caucus, like one of those cockamamy caucus things.
And uh m Puerto Rico is a primary, so I know where of I speak.
I'm lawyered up to the hilt.
I'm being sued by big climate guys for nine million dollars, uh, so I understand how to choose my words.
I'm not quite in the Clintonian state, it depends what the meaning of the word primary is.
But uh but I I said that uh Marco Rubio had won his first primary, and that was true.
Puerto Rico is the first primary the Marco Rubio's one.
Minnesota's one of those cockamami caucus things.
Let's go to D in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dee, thanks for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Um I'm calling because I've been uh very concerned lately that I'm really seeing um history repeat itself and it's kind of a sad history.
Um my fellow uh conservatives and and Christian conservatives.
We're all when you're a conservative, you're a conservative.
But in in twenty twelve, um, when they didn't like the nominee, um, you know, they they just didn't come vote.
And I've always been taught not to vote is to vote, uh, number one.
And secondly, I wanted to point out one other thing.
I believe that uh God's given us one more chance here in this country to stand up for uh the right thing.
Um but Ted Cruz supporter because he is who he says he is for sure.
It's proven and been proven by him.
Um and I just don't understand if in twenty twelve Ted Cruz had been out there my fellow Christians would have voted for him in a New York minute.
So I just wanted uh be able to um urge them to really any any of you that are voting for Trump, because he is pressing all our buttons, that's for sure.
I want you to consider please uh voting for Ted Cruz.
We could wrap this thing up by the two weeks from now and not have a mess uh in a convention.
See we're a powerful Yeah, D D, let me ask you this though, Dee.
Um why do you think that prominent evangelical leaders such as Jerry Falwell Jr., for example, have have chosen to back Trump this time round.
Rip this um oppressive government to pieces than to have someone that wins because he's mad like we are.
Okay, well d let me just ask you, I'm not sure you heard the question Arsy last time round.
Why do you think uh evangelical leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr. uh have chosen to support Trump this time round.
What's up with that?
Hello.
Hello.
Oh yes, I'm sorry, I had trouble hearing you say again, please.
Yeah, well I'll give it a third go.
Uh Jerry Falwell Jr. is one of several evangelical leaders who've endorsed Trump.
Why do you think they're doing that?
Well, you know, that was such a disappointment to me.
Dr. Jeffries, um people I've always worked, you know, great.
And I'm not saying they're not.
But I removed Mr. Farwell's reason.
He stated that um there were so many social issues that we as Christians have always cared about, but they made a decision to just put those aside because he said now we need our economy more than anything for jobs, etc.
And as I sat there thinking, well, as a Christian, I don't want those other things forgotten by any means.
But what makes us turn to someone I'm sorry, I just can't love Donald Trump.
I'm so sad for him.
Is that he really is a narcissist uh at the highest level.
He'll make Barack Obama look like a uh wallflower.
Uh what do we so you as far as you're concerned, it's actually the self-absorption.
It's that uh uh Trump is about Trump.
you know, all those two Corinthians walk into a bar stuff, and he makes it clear that he's got no grip.
Right, my first check on him, sir, came when he couldn't give his favorite scripture, you know, quote, And I thought any fool that's been to a football game in New York or somewhere is gonna see John three sixteen on the screen.
Yeah, why couldn't he just fake it?
No, as as uh as Mr. Trump would say, that's uh John three point one six.
It's like the relaunch of John.
Uh as the computer guys would say.
Uh for your call.
That's very interesting.
Uh Dee is an evangelical who is uh backing Ted Cruz, as most evangelicals um were uh w were meant to be doing.
And uh it didn't work out that way on Super Tuesday.
Most of the states with uh high evangelical populations uh went to Trump and Cruz w wound up winning places like Alaska.
Uh at the weekend Cruz won Maine, which is no hotbed of uh evangelicals.
So things are weird and the d traditional uh targeting votes and putting together coalitions, all the d turnout model stuff doesn't seem to be quite uh working this town right this time round.
But if you are I'm I'm interested in this phenomenon because uh evidently Jerry Falwell Jr. is an influential guy and uh a lot of other evangelical leaders have made the choice.
There's there was one uh I think it down in New Hampshire actually, during the New Hampshire primary, that this time they would like to win.
They've made their accommodations with various candidates before, uh or they've often backed a candidate who's explicitly evangelical, and they've said that this time they'd like to win and this is the guy they feel uh will win it for them.
Um if you disagree with that, I would love uh to to hear from you.
Um the uh uh an interesting so we were talking about the immigration issue, and th the interesting thing about this is this is is that This is one of those issues that was introduced to the campaign and everyone was shocked by it.
A new poll today in Bloomberg Business Week says sixty-one percent of Americans agree that, quote, continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States, unquote.
Now they're not doing the Trump thing.
They're not just talking about Mexican rapists and Muslim terrorists.
They're saying all immigration in this poll.
And this is a remarkable uh this is a remarkable survey.
And it's and what's interesting to me about it is that on issues where even Democrats have concerns, the bipartisan elite will not talk about the issue.
Rush will return live, live tomorrow for full strength.
Authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
Today is March seventh this weekend.
Uh saw the death of a great lady, Nancy Reagan.
It saw five contests and th on the Republican side and three on the Democrat side in the uh slow march toward finding the candidates who will face off against each other in November.
But it was also this weekend, the seventieth anniversary of uh Winston Churchill's great speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he coined a phrase that defined the world we live in uh for the next half century.
He he stood there and told his audience in Fulton, Missouri, from Stettin in the Baltic.
I I don't know that I can keep up uh my impression of uh Sir Winston for the full uh soundbite bug if you go, from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.
An iron curtain has descended across the continent.
Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia.
All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.
And that phrase he came up with, the iron curtain that had descended across the continent, defined global politics for the next half century.
And it is important to remember when we get we we get annoyed about little things.
Keep your eye on the prize, to keep your eye on what matters to you.
Uh and to keep your eye on the things that will still seem important, not necessarily in fifty years' time, but at least in ten or twenty years' time.
Uh this country is the mo is the brokest country in history.
Uh Barack Obama has run up as much debt as all uh forty-three of his predecessors combined.
He will have done by the time he leaves office.
That is a remarkable achievement.
And the world will not let it continue like that uh for another eight years.
There will be consequences uh to normalizing the word trillion and to accepting uh permanent multi-trillion dollar debt uh as a as a uh and accelerating multi-trillion dollar debt as a permanent feature of life.
There will be consequences to that.
There will be consequences to not regaining control of the border, because Trump's right about that.
If you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
Uh there will be consequences to not reshaping and reorienting a foreign policy.
Um in essence, the uh last eight years have seen drift and retreat from the world.
So where do you go?
Uh nobody there seemed to me to be few takers for a re-engagement uh with the kind of uh foreign policy that George W. Bush had.
George George W. Bush felt that uh the the countries that America invaded could be c re made into civilized societies.
Uh in Afghanistan, the Taliban will be retaking control, and in large parts of Iraq, the fellows driving around in American military com equipment are members of the Islamic State.
America needs a foreign policy.
America is uh, in a sense, a uh a paradox in global history.
It's a non-imperial superpower.
Uh so it's not interested in moving into countries for fifty years and uh some guy who's a lawyer in Chicago isn't interested in going and being assistant chief justice in Kabul or Mosul uh for a couple of years.
Americans don't want to do that, and they're non-imperial superpowers.
So you've got to find a way of advancing your interests in the world and containing and destroying your enemies in the world.
People don't like the George Bush model, which is actually, I think one reason why Marco Rubio has trouble, because Marco Rubio is essentially, in some ways, offering George W. Bush's third term.
You gotta come up with you've got to come up with something else.
But keep your eye on things that are gonna be important still in five or ten years' time, like the debt, like the foreign policy, like immigration, like the economy.
And don't get distracted by any of this flimflam, this nonsense.
Saturday night live was doing a thing called racist for Trump.
You know, how many people are in the KKK?
If you're a KKK listener, give me a call.
I'd love to know where you are.
There's uh 237 in a population of three hundred million?
Where the KKK holding rallies.
We watch these stupid things where uh, you know, the Q Klux Klan for 48 hours is suddenly the biggest issue in an American election in 2016.
It doesn't matter to anyone.
As I said, half the country uh doesn't follow politics, because there's two parties and one of them is talking about transgendered bathrooms, and and the other is worried that it's going to be associated with the Q Klux Klan.
And so they don't go to the polls.
And if uh if somebody figured out how to get f ten, fifteen percent of those people to the polls, the entire consultant class, donor class, turnout model experts would all disappear in a puff of smoke because it'd be a whole new game.
Let's go to Chris in Tallahassee, Florida.
Chris, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yeah, hi, Mark.
Uh long time listener, first time caller.
Uh it's my birthday today, so this is a great uh birthday gift and an honor to speak to you.
Hey, happy happy birthday to you, Chris.
Uh it's uh I hope I hope this isn't the extent of your birthday gift that you're having a spectacular dinner and and uh huge cake with show girls popping up out of it.
Uh certainly hope that's all taken care of.
That's all in hand.
The call in to talk about um what happened over the weekend.
You know, Cruz had huge victories in Kansas and Maine.
I mean, big victories.
And uh I think we're really witnessing a turning point right now in the campaign.
And that turn point started in the debate, I think.
Uh you know, Romney coming out and doing his whole statement about uh Trump, you know, that didn't sway anyone.
If anything that helped Trump, in my opinion.
But what Cruz did on the debate floor that night was masterful.
I mean, he just pointed out how intellectual he is, how great of a lawyer he is, at being able to break down and dissect Trump's record and really expose pointing out time and time again, you know, you gave X amount of money to Hillary Clinton four times in a row for her presidential election to John Carey to uh, you know, uh Senator Harry Reid, and look, you could understand if he was giving money to liberal democrats who are in charge of you know zoning.
That sort of corruption you can understand.
He said was really great.
And then he goes on to say he did he actually said that.
I understand the election is the electorate is angry right now.
Trump but Trump is part of the very corruption that you are so angry about.
And right then, when he said that, I said to myself, oh my gosh, he just changed everything.
That he said it perfectly.
And I think he I think that's the turning point, and that's why you see him getting the momentum he's getting.
Well, well, let's explore that a bit, Chris, because um Trump, everyone knows that Ted Cruz is a brilliant prosecutor.
He has a sharp, lawyerly mind.
Th the great uh Cruz moment was that one last year in whatever debate that was, I think it was the terrible appalling CNBC debate, where Cruz stood up and he mocked like the first ten questions.
And the brilliant thing about it was that he remembered every question that uh that that uh the moderators had asked of all the candidates.
Uh uh Donald Trump, is it true that you're just a comic book villain?
Jeb Bush, why don't you just get out of the race?
All this kind of stuff.
And he remembered it all.
Brilliant uh no one would be better than him if he was prowling in front of the jury in a courtroom.
He brilliant, brilliant, loyally prosecutorial mind.
What I thought uh and Russ will say if uh if we're wrong about this, But what I thought Rush was hinting at the other day is that uh you know, in in a presidential candidate, you you need to make a kind of visceral primal emotional connection with people, which Mitt Romney never succeeded in doing.
Uh d do you think uh Ted Cruz can do that.
You there?
Yeah, I'm there.
Do you think Ted Cruz can make that kind of emotional connection, Chris?
Where'd Chris go?
Are you still there, Chris?
I can hear uh I can hear some uh Yeah, he's uh he's he's gone.
That's a shame.
I wanted to know about that.
But if you've uh if you got a view on if you've got a view on that, I don't know what's happening.
Th this is like uh uh the Trump would Trump would say the uh Chinese are killing us on the phones.
Our phones are terrible, it's embarrassing.
I don't know whether I don't know what happened to the but the piece of wet string connecting uh this corner of New Hampshire with the rest of the world uh failed us there.
So I'm sorry to Chris and Tallahassee.
We'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
Uh Mark Stein uh in in for rush um and as I said the th the the circular firing squad of the Republican Party is like uh is it's it's basically like if you saw stuck in the middle with you uh Quentin Tarantino using it in reservoir dogs.
The the Republican Party has turned into a kind of Quentin Tarantino finale where uh one of those Mexican standoffs where we're all uh all just shooting each other.
But at the end somebody's got to be left uh and uh insuffici and sufficiently non-discredited to put together a winning coalition uh this November.
Um I I use the phrase just before we go any further, I use the phrase circular fryering squad there.
I hope it's not becoming uh literal.
There's a very bizarre story out of Idaho today.
Idaho pastor shot in the skull after praying with Ted Cruz.
A manhunt is underway for a former uh Marine.
This is Pastor Tim Renning Remington.
Uh Ted Cruz uh held an event in Idaho uh just uh like ten minutes south the Canadian border uh uh on Saturday, and Tim Remington, Pastor Remington, put his arm around Ted Cruz and then delivered a rousing invocation.
Uh he was shot in the skull and the back after his Sunday sermon, and uh authorities are now uh looking for a thirty-year-old local man and former Marine named Kyle Andrew Odom.
It is uh perhaps it is just coincidence.
Um Pastor Tim uh gave the invocation, put his arm around Ted Cruz at Saturday's rally, and then was shot in the skull and the back after the Sunday sermon.
And I hope it is our prayers are obviously with the pastor and his family, and uh we are glad that he is alive and we wish him well with a recovery from that.
Uh but in the meantime uh it uh is certainly if it is coincidental, it is a bizarre coincidence.
Uh uh I I'll repeat I'll repeat the arithmetic I laid out at the beginning.
You know, you can't win without Trump supporters.
You can't win without Cruz supporters.
You can't win without Kasich supporters, you can't win without Rubio supporters.
And even if you get all four of those groups, you then gotta add millions more uh just to get to two seventy in the electoral college in November.
And people have to get a grip on themselves with all this oh he's not he's not a real conservative, and you're not a real conservative, and this the you parties are coalitions.
Parties are coalitions of of shifting interests and shifting priorities.
And you have to determine what your priority is, and in a fixed two-party system, you vote for the least worst guy.
You vote for the least worst guy.
Let us go to Scott in El Cheun, California.
Is that how you say it, Scott?
Uh El Cajon.
El Cahon.
Oh, I know that.
There's a a fabulous uh uh song about El Cajon, about somebody having a romantic uh uh a romantic uh weekend in El Cahone by um Dave Frischman.
Well it's great uh great to speak to you, Mark.
You're my favorite uh rush guest host.
Well, thank thank you for that that Scott.
That's that's nice to hear.
What's on your mind today?
Well, you know, you've addressed it a little bit at the top of the hour, and I called for a sanity check.
I really believe if Trump is the nominee, he might carry New Jersey and New York.
Well, you know, I think he puts them in play.
I mean, w let's back up a minute here, Scott.
I think what the uh Democrats don't like about running against Trump is that none of their playbooks work.
They've got to figure out another playbook.
And what it means is that Hillary will be having to hold rallies in states that she thought were in the bag.
So you might you might have a point there.
She'll she'll she certainly won't want to assume that New York is in the bag, so she'll be having to campaign there and in New Jersey.
Well, I think uh New Yorkers probably look at her as a carpet bagger.
I think that well, I think that's true.
She's from Hillary is from whatever s uh suits their their purpose.
And I think uh and I think Trump's can certainly give her a run for money there.
But the the other point, Scott, is it would be actually better if we didn't have permanent red states and blue states.
But some of these ones changed hands in ways that we hadn't uh expected.
That i I mean, in other words, it would be good if whoever's the nominee this November wins big by putting some of these states back in the Republican column, Scott.
Yeah, I'd love that.
I would just it's like uh I think a vote for Trump is a reset button.
Yeah, maybe.
We don't I mean that's his argument.
We don't know that.
Uh and the other argument in favor of that is that he's brought uh lots of uh he he claims he's brought lots of millions of extra people in, and this the turnout in these Republican primaries is phenomenal.
But we'll see about that.
But certainly Trump's argument that if he's the candidate, New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and some of these other places are suddenly competitive uh all over again.
Thanks for your call, Scott.
We'll close things out in just a moment.
Mark Stein for Rush, it was the end of an era this weekend with the death of uh Nancy Reagan.
Uh she and uh Merv Griffin of all people had the same birthday, and I was told by a uh mutual friend uh that what many years ago that what she most enjoyed in those uh tough uh final years of her husband's illness was uh getting together with Merv at the piano to sing songs that uh she and Ronnie had loved.
Uh they are in a better place uh today, and uh and I hope they uh they are enjoying some of that uh some of that music.
Music of the spheres, if nothing else.
Uh she was the young actress that uh Ronald Reagan met almost seven decades ago when she had a bit of a problem with a false rumour of communist associations.
And she turned to him as the union head uh to see if he could help her out, and he did.
And then he asked her to dinner, and they did that movie thing, uh movie star thing when movie stars have dinner, they claim that they've got to go early because they've got an early call in the morning.
So they were gonna pretend they'd both got early calls in the morning, and then they enjoyed the each other's company so much that they stayed yakkin' away until late in the small hours.
And from that dinner, American history changed.
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