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I was right.
I got back about actually 2.30 this morning.
I got back.
It was our annual night of the century cigar dinner in New York City at the Four Seasons restaurant.
Another sellout charity event for the prostate cancer foundation led by uh by Michael Milken.
These things are one of the one of the most fun nights of the year for me.
There's always a new group of people, uh, in addition to the regulars.
Uh, and it was it was just a fabulous time.
But as I told you, I was unaware of any details.
Now, I checked my phone during the course of the evening and I saw what was happening.
I um I saw that that Cruz was winning handily in Wisconsin.
I saw that Cruz did win bigger than any of the polls suggested.
But until I got out of there and got back on the airplane, able to turn on television, I didn't know any of the specifics.
I just had the raw numbers.
And it's interesting when you watch it this way.
You know the result, but you have not been watching the returns all night.
So by the time I got on the airplane turned on the TV, it was around, I don't know, 11:30.
And the and the one of the things that I heard, one of the points that I heard being made, was a replay.
So I don't know when during the course of the evening the point was made, but I think this is a fascinating point that I'll bet you I would have missed or not given a whole lot of weight if I had been watching the progression of events that is election night coverage on any network.
So you're watching before the polls close and you listen to them discussing the exit polls, and you can tell.
You can tell who's gonna win by listening to them talk about the exit polls.
If you know how to do that, of course, I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, know how to do that.
In fact, before I got off the plane, uh they were starting on Fox to discuss the exit polls.
And I turned to Catherine and I said, This is huge.
This is a huge cruise win tonight, just by the way they're talking about this on special report with Brett Bayer.
Oh, and speaking of that, they played a clip of me on special report with Brad Bear last night from yesterday's program leading into the all-star panel.
And they played the clip of me pointing out that Trump, after a bad night, always changes the narrative with an endorsement announcement or something else that is designed to take the uh the attention off of the election results the night before and to reshift the narrative so that Trump is out ahead of things and looks like he's got momentum and so forth.
So they played that sound bite.
But after they played it, Red Bear said, Rush Limbaugh talking about Donald Trump and post coverage behavior, not the Wisconsin primary.
So what have we talked about the Wisconsin primary all day?
I mentioned the Wisconsin Prime.
Don't anybody send him email.
Will you please?
He's a good guy.
He's a nice guy, he's a great golfer, he's like a five-handicap.
I don't want to make him mad.
I was just do not do not send him any notes, please.
It's not the point.
But it was though mentioning this about Trump changing the narrative after a loss was to miss the point because I was not discussing the Wisconsin Premier.
We did all day yesterday.
And by the way, I don't want to be misunderstood here.
I really but I'm reading all this stuff today.
You know, it's it really is fascinating.
When you don't see any of the coverage as it's happening.
And so everything you read or watch, you're catching up on things that already have happened or already were said.
It is a it's a fascinating way.
I may do this again.
I mean, not fly to New York to miss coverage, but not start watching till 11 o'clock at night or 1130 or so.
No, not lost my original place.
But the the one of the things I've heard is in a Wisconsin.
Now that's a much, much different place.
And Trump's discovered it's a much, much different place.
And this, look, I don't want to insult Wisconsin.
I'm not, that's not because I you know how I love Scott Walker there.
So do not knee jerk here.
But this I'm not denying Wisconsin special.
I'm not denying it's unique, and I'm not denying that there's a unique conservative activist movement there.
But what is also, and the exit polls are going to show this, by the way, you just hang in there.
What was also on display last night was the cruise strategy playing out.
And that is, you get this to a two-man race, and it's over.
Trump's not going to win anymore.
When it's just me and Trump, the theory being that all these Republican primaries have featured 55 to 65% of Republican primary voters voting for somebody other than Trump.
But the vote's been split by 10, 11, 9, 7 candidates.
Now we're down to just basically Cruz and Trump with Kasich over there mopping up every night.
And that's one of the big differences.
I'm not trying to take anything away from Cruz either.
This is his strategy manifesting itself.
It's a fascinating thing.
I must tell you, you Trumpists, I have been amazed over this campaign from the beginning to the end.
And this takes me to my first point, so hang in.
The Trump campaign has not grown.
It's at 35% every primary, 3537.
The polling data shows he's going to get 3537 in a place as he's won.
Well, even when he's lost, like last night, he has 3537.
And there hasn't been any growth on that.
There hasn't been any expansion of whatever you'd call a Trump base.
They've been relying on crossovers in open primaries.
But for the acknowledged frontrunner to be on a roll, you would think that there would be an expanding number of people voting for Trump.
But it's held steady at 3537.
And I'm wondering why there hasn't been an effort to grow the base, or maybe the effort has been that they just think it's going to happen as more wins were chalked up and more momentum was developed.
But Trump hasn't won anything in a month now, right?
Is this the fourth or fifth caucus primary in a row that Trump has not won.
And yet, this is what I saw last night, one of the first things.
So what does this have to do with anything?
I mean, every can everybody agree last night that Cruz wins decidedly.
You want to call it maybe even a landslide for Ted Cruz.
I'm talking the vote for the delegates too.
But it's a cruise landslide last night.
You don't want to call it a cruise landslide.
Well, I'm going to call it cruise line, but it was just not talking about the delegates.
I'm talking about the percentage of the vote to turn out it was a skunk.
The polling day they had Trump anywhere from you know down four and a half to ten, and cruise wins by 13.
In anybody's game, that's a landslide.
I know the delegates, Trump doesn't get he, what he gets six, and and uh and cruise gets up, but that's that's everybody knows now.
Trump had to win that last night.
Pretty much had to win that in order to get to 1237 before we get just this is what I noticed of all this.
I mean, the story last night is this massive cruise win, right?
The story accordingly ought to be something along the lines of what a bad night it was for Trump.
What a disappointing night it was for Trump.
What a maybe devastating night it was for Trump, particularly on networks that don't like Trump.
Particularly places where they've got people that really don't like Trump.
And of course, they have people that really love Trump at the same time.
So I heard two things.
I heard Carl Rove say that what matters after last night is the growing gap between Trump and non-Trump.
I said, what?
That's the takeaway.
The growing gap between Trump and non-Trump.
so I listened even closer.
And the point was there was almost a an amazement that even in defeat Trump did so well that even in defeat, Trump holds on to his base that even in defeat, Trump's voters do not abandon him.
And that was considered impressive.
So wait a second.
This is in anybody's ball game, this is a huge Ted Cruz win.
This is a massive Ted Cruz win in a lot of ways in analyzing how it happened.
Great ground game, terrific organization.
Uh in any way you want to define it, it was a great Cruz win.
And yet here's Rove talking about that what matters was the growing gap between Trump and non Trump.
And I think what that means is exactly what I have been warning everybody that the establishment is toying around with.
I don't think they're committed to it yet.
But we heard, this is another thing, flying home last night I heard it, there was a super secret meeting at the RNC with a bunch of uh uh operatives, and they were planning delegate rules behavior strategy for the convention.
So, you know, I'm putting these things together.
So if if Rove is to the what matters is the growing gap, not this big cruise win.
Not the fact that Trump lost.
No, no, no.
What matters is this growing gap.
I think what it means is that the establishment is still toying with the idea.
They're exploring the possibility of denying both these guys the nomination if neither gets to 1237.
That's what I think this means.
And for that to be an observation, like I said, I'm not sure I would even pick this up had I been watching from the beginning of the night, and this just was in context.
I it might have it might have stuck out, but it really stuck out.
I get on the airplane, I know Cruz wins, but I don't know anything else.
I haven't heard exit polls officially.
I know nothing.
I just know the raw numbers.
And I start watching things that are being replayed, and and I said, whoa, that's the takeaway.
I would have never thought that's a takeaway.
So why is that the takeaway?
And I'm telling you, I don't think it's a fate of compli yet.
I don't think they've decided to do it, but I know they're toying with this idea of uh coming up with rules that essentially will disqualify both Cruz and Trump if neither gets 1237 on the basis that the people have spoken, that the Democratic process played out.
We had our primaries, and we had gazillions and gazillions of people voting, and we did not get a winner.
Therefore, both candidates have been rejected by the people.
I know there are people in the party trying to see if they can make that happen.
And then I heard a soundbite from Dr. Krauthammer.
And it it in its own way parrots what Carl Rove was saying last night, America's election headquarters special coverage of the Wisconsin primary.
What do I hear hail to the chief in the background?
Anyway, Megan Kelly speaking with Dr. Krauthammer about what it all means.
And this is what Dr. Krauthammer said.
He runs in a state where he's up against a popular governor.
Up against very sophisticated, very influential local talk radio.
Up against a ton of money.
And on top of all that, it comes after the worst two weeks of the campaign.
In spite of all of that, Trump comes in with the high 30s, and he has the most rock solid floor of support of any candidate in memory.
There's something about his support that is so solid that despite the loss, in the face of all this, it shows a remarkable staying power.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Here you have a giant Ted Cruz win, and the takeaway is Trump staying power when Trump has just been shellacked.
So I'm saying, what's going on here?
And then I remembered what Rove had said.
And so I'm I grant you I I'm I'm extrapolating and assuming.
This is kind of as strange as on the Democrats that Hillary Clinton hasn't won in what?
How long has it been since she won anything?
This crazy Bernie, who apparently doesn't know anything.
He did a New York Daily News interview.
Hey Bernie, how are you gonna do?
X, what I don't know.
I don't I don't know.
But but I know we should do it.
Everybody's stunned on the Democrat side, they're blown away.
They can't believe the guy readily admitted such ignorance.
He doesn't know how he's gonna do anything that he believes needs to be done.
He hasn't the slightest idea.
Most increment, yet the guy keeps winning.
But you would never know that watching the coverage on the Democrat side.
Bernie Sanders keeps winning.
It's the only place in the Democrat primary where there is any excitement, where there is any pulse, where there's any drama, and poor Bernie.
He can't every every primary, Hillary Clinton cements her lead, superdelegates added.
She hasn't won anything.
And so obviously the fix is in on the Democrats side, which we all know.
The fix is in.
It's been in.
I told you way back last summer that there's no way Bernie Sanders is going to get the nomination, no matter what they had to do, but the guy keeps winning and winning and winning, and she keeps getting the delegates.
And despite on the Republican side, whenever there's a win, I mean, they react to the win and they talk about what the win means.
Like last night, there were a lot of people talking about, you know, this resets everything.
This is the worst thing could happen for Trump.
This like almost erases everything it happened beforehand, except for Rove and Krauthammer, who are talking about how solid Trump's base is, how unwavering it is, how it isn't dissipating, how it isn't going, and the gap between that and cruise.
And I've thought, okay, what's actually the takeaway here?
And I think I think I got it.
Hillary Clinton has lost seven of the last eight contests, folks.
If any front runner on the Republican side had lost seven of the last eight, do you know what the coverage of that front runner would be?
And with Hillary, there isn't any coverage.
Other than, hey, isn't it cute what Bernie's doing?
Hey, isn't it kind of fun to watch what old Bernie's doing?
But in terms of having any meaning, zip zero nada.
Okay, now one other thing about this.
I then later saw Meghan Kelly making the same point about Trump's solid base of support.
Um they marveled at it.
Both Dr. Knut Hammer and Megan Kelly and Rove were marveling.
And even when Trump loses, he holds on to his 35, whatever it is, 36% of a vote.
Now, folks, I can't help but observe something here.
I have been making that point for I don't know how long.
I've been observing that Trump's support is what it is.
I've been explaining it, I've been trying to make people who don't understand it understand it.
I've been telling people who these 35% are and why they're there, and every time I did, you know what happened?
I was accused of implicitly endorsing Trump.
People accused me of secretly endorsing Trump, trying to hide my endorsement of favoring Trump when all I was doing was sober analysis.
And then last night, Dr. Dick Outhammer and Carl Rove and even Megan come along and they make the same observation I've been making, and I haven't heard anybody say, my gosh, they're endorsing Trump last night.
Did you see that?
And nobody will say that.
Just a little.
One of my staff, you know what they just said to me?
One of my own staff.
I signed the paychecks.
You know what they said to me during the break?
Mr. Limboy, you sound particularly giddy over this result last night.
Anything you want to add?
My own staff treating me this way.
No, the staff's not relieved.
They're panicked.
My own staff.
I mean, my staff runs the gamut, too.
We're not all monolithic here.
Am I relieved?
No, I'm not.
No, no, no.
No, no, I'm this isn't over by a long shot.
There is so much left to go here that nobody's gonna.
I told I told, look, we had a lull of two weeks.
We had to fill the lull with a bunch of polling data, predictions, and now we got a hard result last night.
It changes everything again, just like I told you.
So now you got people saying it's over.
It's over for Trump, he no way he got 1237, no way he's gonna win because crews are running rings around him in the delegate level.
Cruz is going out there and buying delegates, sobering delegates, he's getting all these great relationships, delegates, Trump closed his offices, Trump this, Trump that.
Nobody knows what's going to happen here.
I may have to cancel my annual guy golf trip in early June, because this isn't going to be over by then.
No, I'm not complaining.
I'm just telling you.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have folks.
This is in no way over.
And it's fascinating to watch after every primary, all of the analysts, and there's so many of them now, and everybody wants to come up with something nobody else comes up with, which leads to really some crazy extreme and wild analysis and/or predictions.
You have people also trying to be the smartest in the room that are in competition with the others trying to come up with something unique that nobody else has come up with, and that's really, really very hard to do.
And you've got people who want it to be over now, that are tired of the drama, they're tired of biting their nails, they just want it decided, they want it over with because they're scared that they're not going to get the outcome they want.
You have other people who thought it was in the bag.
A lot of the Trumpists thought it was in the bag, and now they're starting to doubt that.
And they've got problems.
And they're they're wondering how this is all going to play out.
And I'm sure they want their guy to get back in gear, get back in game, and uh and and resume the things that were creating the momentum.
You get the cruise people that are jazzed beyond belief over this as totally understandable.
This is the result of uh a lot of factors coming together on one night, all of it rooted in hard work, and some really well-crafted strategies that were really well executed, all came together on Tuesday in Wisconsin.
But the point is that it's nowhere near over because there are still way too many variables.
Uh as I say, the the the subjects are getting to 1237.
For example, conventional wisdom, had Trump won last night and secured all of or most of the delegates, then everybody today would be acknowledging that it's over, but would now be calculating and contemplating ways to still stop Trump.
But the exact opposite happened.
Cruz wins, Cruz is still what here's the delegate count as of right now.
Trump's at 743.
Cruz, even after last night is at 517.
Over here is Rubio with 171, and he's holding on to his.
Then you have Rince Prebis out there, and Rince Prebus saying the nominee is going to come from those still running.
That includes Kasich.
He will not exclude Kasich.
Now there's only one way Kasich can become the nominee, and that's if the establishment takes over the convention and invokes this dream of theirs of disqualifying both Cruz and Trump.
And then if neither get to 1237, then you go to a convention that's going to have more than one ballot, and then the entire process of securing loyalty, delegate by delegate by delegate, state by state by state.
there is just way too much yet to happen and and nobody can know how it's going to play out.
You might have people tell you they do, but they can't.
There are too many variables.
Just in this delegate business alone.
You know, for example, Trump has had limited staff throughout this.
He has relied on the sheer force of his personality and his focus on a national campaign that has produced massive turnout and massive victory in many places.
And the strategy has been that that mass, that that momentum, that excitement is just going to bring everybody along as Trump makes it increasingly clear that he's going to be a big winner.
This was the strategy, that everybody wants to be with a winner, and eventually it's what's going to happen.
As a result, whenever a state primary concluded, Trump, in many places, closed the campaign office that he had there, and his offices were never big.
But Cruz, for example, has not closed his offices in these states.
They're still open.
They're still populated by Cruz employees who are now working on people who might become delegates in these states on a second ballot.
Every all these efforts are being made to wine and dine or whatever, secure the support of delegates.
In some states, the delegates haven't been chosen yet.
So you don't know who to wine to dine.
So you go to the party leaders.
Trump doesn't have an operation like that yet.
Do you know that Obama state offices from his 2008 campaign are still open?
Well, what Rush?
Because this is how Obama protects his agenda.
He's got his campaign offices in 2008, not all, but in a lot of states still open.
And when anything that happens in a state where maybe a Republican governor has been elected, maybe a Republican legislature, and they start making moves in state legislation to repeal, reverse, uh get rid of something Obama has done federally.
They try to take a step on it at the state level.
The Obama office gets into gear and starts lobbying and influencing and doing what they can to protect the president's agenda.
So these offices, if if if you have enough money and if you have a big enough organization, big ground, these offices never close, and nobody ever stops to think that they're still open.
You hear that Obama 08 or Obama 12 still has a campaign office open in Durham, North Carolina.
Why?
What in the world?
He's not running again.
No, he's protecting his agenda.
These offices may stay open after Obama leaves with a different title, a different name, but the purpose will be the same.
So you have that here on the Republican side.
Okay, how's this all going to manifest itself?
Because we're now talking second ballot if nobody gets at 1237.
Then we got the establishment.
Are they going to try to play a game and disqualify with new rules, both Cruz and Trump?
And if so, what's what's going to happen with that?
We've got audio sound bites here from people who are weighing in on that possibility.
No, no, no, you know what?
They say the establishment's going to figure out that would be bad.
They're going to sidle up to Cruz.
They're not going to like it, but they're going to cycle up to Cruz.
All this is coming up here on the program.
I want to go through some of the exit polling data first before we get to all that.
My only point is, I'm not, I'm not trying to be uh throw cold water on anybody feeling good over winning.
It's big, but it isn't over.
And Cruz, they know as well as anybody, 1237 delegates prior to the convention.
That's that's gonna be really, really challenging.
They have to make plans for getting the nomination, not getting 1237, which is what they're doing.
Now, part of that is continuing to win and building momentum and showing support.
So it's it's all oriented toward the same thing.
You want to win as many delegates as you can, create the momentum and have that speak for itself once you get to the convention.
And then you have the facts on paper at the establishment that they don't like either these two guys.
Because when you strip all this away, uh forget Cruz and Trump individually combined.
What do we have here?
We have two men who have engendered minimum 70% support of Republican primary voters.
And neither of these two are part of the establishment.
Both of these candidates are running as anti-establishment or anti-Washington.
They are both securing support from people fed up with the power structure, the ruling class of Washington, both parties.
So no matter how the establishment looks at this, if they choose to sidle up with either of these guys, they're still sidling up with the enemy at the end of the day.
And that does not make them happy.
And that's another thing.
There's all kinds of people out there on the right.
There are all kinds of conservatives out there who are primarily anti-Trump.
They are making people think they are pro-cruz because it's safer.
But they're not.
They're really anti-Trump.
They are anti-Trump to the point that many of them would not be bothered at all if Hillary Clinton won.
But it it serves their purposes now to make it look as though they are pro-cruz, because that naturally goes along with being anti-Trump.
They would hurt their cause if they let it be known that they're really anti-Cruz as well.
And it may be a stretch to say they're anti-Cruz.
It's not it's some bloggers, it's some magazine people, it's uh you might have some people in the broadcast media, I don't know.
Uh relatively young, uh, and and it's there are a whole bunch of factors at this.
I mean, you throw all of these things into the mix is how you inexorably conclude that this is nowhere near over.
Because no matter what happens with every state primary, there's a lot of people unhappy with the result.
Maybe even more people unhappy than there are happy people on the winning side.
And when that happens, it creates all kinds of shakenery and uh sabotage strategy, because to a lot of people this is very personal.
To a lot of people, this is personal as to their future.
Uh many people want you to think they're in it for the country, and they are, but they don't take themselves out of the equation either.
So Cruz knows all this, and Trump knows all this.
This is why neither of these two are giving up, and that's why they're they're batting down the hatches and are going to be proceeding forward with even more sense of purpose and uh and energy on the polling front.
Reuters is making a big deal out of this.
Ted Cruz has pulled into a statistical dead heat with Trump.
35.2% for Cruz among Republicans to Trump's 39.5%.
That's a margin of error.
It's a tight one.
The margin of error is 4.8 percentage points.
It's a it's barely a statistical tie.
But Trump has had a double-digit lead.
I mean, Trump's been at 45, Cruz 1720, what have you, throughout most of this campaign in the in the national Reuters poll.
I mean, Trump was beating Cruz by 20 points in this poll a month ago.
And now they're in a margin of error tie.
And so everybody's is taking note of that, trying to figure out what that means.
There's a really interesting stuff in the exit polls last night to the extent that we can believe what people tell exit pollers, get into that, and your phone calls are coming up as well right after this.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to keep it fair.
You still got that song I asked for yesterday standing by in case I need it.
All right, good.
Here's uh here's Mark in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as We start on the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
I just uh wanted to argue with you for a minute, if I could.
Sure, but I'm I'm a long-term uh supporter and a Republican.
And uh I just feel like uh that uh talk radio, you a lot of folks, uh, but I'll we'll just talk about your show, has been very divisive and has made the uh Republican Ted smaller and smaller.
It seems like any of us who might be Kasich supporters or Rubio supporters kind of almost start feeling like the enemy because uh it's just a constant drumbeat of the establishment versus those of us who are somehow spiritually pure.
And I don't think that the folks who are the establishment, uh the folks like Carl Rove and those folks who uh are Charles Crowdhammer, I think those folks are like me.
They're genuinely scared of Donald Trump.
Uh we don't think that he's a real candidate.
Uh I think he's a con man and a promoter.
Uh he was a Democrat until 2009.
He's been on almost every side of every issue.
Uh he's tapped into a lot of anger, but I don't think you know, he scares me.
If if he's the actual nominee, I won't vote in the next election.
I can't vote for Hillary.
I can't vote for the communist.
And I certainly that's what you're gonna end up doing if if you don't vote.
Yes, I realize that.
Uh uh, I'm not one of those.
But I'm the problem for Ross Perot back in the days, and I realize that's throwing a vote away, but I cannot in good conscience vote for a man that I think is uh just a promoter and a con man.
See, I differ.
That's where I differ from you.
I don't think there's anything on our side that comes anywhere close to threatening this nation like the Democrat Party does, and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John Kerry and anybody else in that in that organization, that party, their their leadership, even their their base voters scare the heck out of me.
And I don't think uh no no matter who we throw up, no matter who wins this nomination, there is no way they in any way scare me, even close to what Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Democrat Party make me feel.
Well, Donald Trump does scare me that much.
I don't think that there's a moral compass there.
Um I uh I very much think that he's in this for the publicity, and all of a sudden one morning woke up and said, Hey, uh I've got a huge amount of support, maybe I can win this thing, and uh then I'll decide what my moral compass is.
I don't think the man is well grounded.
I don't think he's a conservative.
I mean, he's donated money to the Clinton Crime Foundation, he's donated money to every Democrat out there.
He talks about uh not uh about being able to self-fund his own campaign, but you know he's loaning the money to his campaign, and he is the special interest.
He's the special interest guy that bought every politician in New York so that he would have access.
And this is not the kind of man that I want without a moral compass as the Republican nominee.
I'm hoping that in New Mexico we'll get a chance to vote, and I'll certainly vote for Ted Cruz because he is the most likely alternative.
But you're a Casick guy, is it when it gets down to that?
You know, my first choice was Marco Rubio.
I think he could have beat Hillary like a drum.
And I like the guy.
You know, I I I I said as much.
If it weren't for that gang of eight blunder, and all he would have had to have done was apologize.
We are an amazingly forgiving bunch of people.
Are we not, Mark?
Yes, we are, but I you know the the gang of eight was actually uh an attempt to deal with illegal immigration, and I find that to be an adult point of view.
Okay.
Uh and not dealing with immigration I find to not be an adult point of view.
So, you know, I'm not gonna uh mark him down for that.
I think he uh but somehow Well, the reason he didn't finish is because other people did mark him down and then didn't accept his explanation for it.
This is my point, and one of the reasons I called the reason he was marked down is because there was a constant drumbeat on talk radio about the gang of eight and how he didn't become the establishment.
You gotta if you don't understand something by now, you've got to learn this.
The people do not need me or anybody else telling them about an illegal immigration to oppose it.
They do not need me to tell them how it is destroying this country.
They know it.
They're living it.
They're not being guided in that.
They're the ones in two thousand seven called me, you better get in gear and help us stop this.
They're not waiting for any leadership on this.
They are the leaders on it.
And that's where Marco Blitz all he would have had to do was apologize.
That speech he gave getting out was awesome.
By the way, going back to Dr. Krauthammer, it could well be that the reason he was impressed that Trump's support remains 35, 36, whatever, he it may well be that he's shocked that Trump didn't lose anything despite the bad two weeks.