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July 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh is always having fun.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I mean, it's frustrating.
Don't misunderstand.
And I'm not, I'm not here with uh absent uh reality.
I'm mayor of Reaville.
I'm hip deep in all this.
But as long as I have a chance to come here and do this every day for some optimistic.
I feel like we have a chance.
Keep plugging away at it.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, and uh L Rushmore at EIBNet.com if you want to send an email.
Now I want to go through this one more time because two weeks ago.
You remember there was devastating polling data.
Hillary Clinton pulling ahead.
Uh one poll she was up by 11.
In another poll, she was up by six.
And she was spending all this money.
And she was on a roll, and she was running ads, millions of dollars worth of ads, and they're bringing amplified free runs of the ads in addition to what was being per uh purchased and paid for.
And it was all focused on how Trump doesn't have the temperament.
Now Trump's not qualified.
What was Trump doing?
Nothing.
Trump's out there talking about himself, saying, I I doing this, this, this.
Uh wall, wall, wall wasn't talking about Hillary did not zero in on her on the FBI investigation.
Emails didn't talk about it.
People were pulling their hair out.
My God, remember, even had that piece.
Is Trump actually not want to win this?
Is uh is Trump actually trying to get a Hillary elected?
There was genuine panic out there.
And in the midst of this, there was a piece.
I forget who wrote it.
I know you remember where it ran.
I did I remember talking about accused me and uh uh Newt and uh Romney and others of being in data denial, meaning we would look at polling data unfavorable to our desires, and we would just choose not to believe it.
And that was that was not good.
That was damaging when you don't look at the polls and trust what they say, when you think the polls are wrong and you tell your audience the polls are wrong, you're doing a disservice.
We all must believe the polls was the message.
And I was in data denial.
Dating all the way back to the 2012 presidential race, and I admit to being in data denial then.
Okay, so given that, given that two weeks ago it was over, don't forget the tone of those stories.
We had Republicans, we had conservatives in it wringing their hands, oh my god, it's over, oh God.
Hillary's pulling away, oh no, Trump's not even trying, oh God, Trump's not even campaigning.
Oh, geez, what are we gonna do?
And there were stories about a coup and who knows what else.
Just two weeks ago, it was over.
And the people telling us this, we're looking at polling data and telling us you better believe it.
It's over.
Well, I don't know if they said it's over, but it's looking bad, and it doesn't seem to be any way Trump can recover.
He might get a bump out of his convention, but that won't last.
I mean, it was doom and gloom time two weeks ago.
So now and let's go there was another story about two weeks ago, on July 1st.
Bloomberg News.
Clinton spending roughly $500,000 a day on TV ads.
Trump zero.
The data offers a first glimpse into Clinton's general election advertising strategy, as well as her campaign's view of the 2016 electoral map.
And these these uh spots that she was running uh with all the money that Trump wasn't answering.
He wasn't addressing, he wasn't running his own ads, wasn't doing anything, there was uh doom and gloom all over the place in Trump Central.
The Hillary ads were being run in Ohio and Florida.
Swing states, oh my god, Hillary's gonna wrap it up right.
Oh my god, Joe God geez, Trump's loss.
Oh, no, no.
And Limbaugh's out there denying the data.
So that's two weeks.
Let's listen to the story today.
July 13th, politico, swing state stunner.
Trump has edge in key states.
Poll quote.
In the poll release, the school suggested it's a uh Quinnipiact poll.
By the way, the Quinnipiac poll, there's another story here, says the Quinnipiac poll is the poll now.
The Quinnipiac poll is the gold standard of polls.
It's considered to be the poll.
If you want to trust a poll out there, trust Quinnipia.
Okay, fine.
What does it say?
Says that uh the investigation into Hillary Clinton could have played a role, pointing to other lingering questions about Clinton's honesty and trustworthiness.
While there is no definite link between Clinton's drop in Florida and the Justice Department's decision not to prosecute her for her handling of the emails, the Quinnipiact poster said that she's lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty.
The political story on this is written in sheer panic.
Did Donald Trump really just surge past Hillary Clinton in two of the election's most important battlegrounds?
Oh my God.
Oh no.
New swing state polls released Wednesday by Quinnipiac show Trump leaving Clinton in Florida in Pennsylvania and tied in Ohio.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What about two weeks ago?
When I was in data denial.
And they were telling us that Trump, oh my God, it's over.
Trump's losing ground.
There's no way he can gain this back.
Hillary's running all of these ads.
People looking at this through the traditional professional political prism, which I have warned people you can't do with Trump.
There's just no way to plug Trump into this traditional paradigm that everybody uses to judge these things.
And the proof is right here.
Trump hasn't spent a nickel.
Hillary has spent a million dollars slamming Trump, and she has lost ground because of the news of the day.
The FBI investigation, plus the overall impression of her that she's not honest and not trustworthy.
And that perception precedes the arrival of Trump.
Hillary has baggage galore that she brings into this race, regardless what Trump does with it.
It's there.
And we had the whole scenario yesterday where Bernie basically gets out and endorses her, and his supporters are not happy at all.
And we have come to find out in further polling data that there is a huge percentage of anti-Hillary Democrats out there.
There were never anti-Bill Clinton Democrats.
You couldn't find enough anti-Obama Democrats to put in a phone booth when there were phone booths.
But there's a there's there's more anti-Hillary Democrats than there are anti-Trump Republicans.
And the drive-bys don't understand it.
And they can't deny the data.
They're the ones writing stories about data deniers and how it's really wrong to do that.
So now they've got this polling data that they hate.
But they can't deny it if they are to remain consistent.
The race is so close that it is within the margin of error in each of those three states.
Trump leads by three points in Florida.
Oh my god, oh my God.
That's the closest state in the 2012 election.
He leads by 42 to 39% in Ohio, the race is tied 41 to 41.
In Pennsylvania, which hasn't voted for a Republican since 1988, Trump leads 43 to 41.
Clinton's campaign responded to the surveys by cautioning that while the swing states were always expected to be close, the urgent stakes of a possible Trump election remain high.
Oh, really?
No, the swing states were always expected to be close.
No, they weren't.
Two weeks ago, they weren't going to be close.
Two weeks ago it was over.
Two weeks ago, Hillary was running all these ads just like it, politics manual says you have to do, and she was targeting Trump, and she was saying that Trump's unfit.
He doesn't have the right temperament, he doesn't have qualifications, he's a basic reprobate.
That was supposed to kill him, supposed to doom him, supposed to end his campaign.
What was Trump doing?
Nothing.
Nobody could find him.
He's out there talking about himself, talking about judge, whatever he was doing.
He wasn't talking about the FBI story, wasn't it talking about Comey?
A couple of tweets here and there, but he wasn't hitting Hillary on it, and look what happened.
And I'm telling you, there is sheer panic out there in the drive-by media.
So now we get this story from Fox Five, New York, not Fox News.
This is the Fox affiliate, New York City Channel 5.
Election polling at a crossroads.
Why polling may be on the cusp of big changes?
Oh, see how this works.
You have your traditional manual of how to elect candidates.
And it involves hiring the right consultants who will go out and relate with the right lobbyists, and they'll buy the right advertising and they'll put together the right campaign and they'll run rough shot over your opponent, and whatever they buy, they get 15% commission of it.
That's how they earn their living, the consultants.
And the more money you have, and the more money you spend, and the more trash you get out on your opponent, the better you win.
Like Jeb Bush and the 115 million he spent to get six delegates.
So now that the formula doesn't seem to be working, Hillary's running millions of dollars worth of ads targeting Trump as a reprobate and a heathen and who knows whatever else.
He's losing ground big time.
Trump is gaining ground.
Trump's not gaining ground as fast as she's losing it, though.
Got to be honest about that.
And these polling numbers show that he's not gaining ground as fast as she is losing it.
He's still trickling upwards, if you can trickle upward.
But all of a sudden, now why polling may be on the cusp of big changes.
Yes, you see, when polling will no longer serve our purposes, well, we have to come out with a story that uh basically is how polling is changing.
And the upshot of this story is this.
Some experts say that political polling itself is at a crossroads.
Polsters used to be able to use automatic dialers to quickly connect with people on their home phone, but the rise of cell phones has made traditional scientific polling much tougher to do.
Oh, poor babies.
1991 law called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act made it illegal for pollsters to use automatic dialers to call people on their cell phones.
That added time, coupled with what Rutger is public policy professor Cliff Zukin has said is a rapidly declining response rate, and the cost of traditional telephone polling has shot up.
It's gotten maybe three or four times as expensive as it used to be just two elections ago, Zukin said.
Which is probably why some of the polls were so wrong about Romney.
It's all become a matter of waiting and guesswork.
I mean computer models, I'm sorry, like they use in global warming climate change.
And while many see this amounting to a death warrant for traditional telephone polling, note that it's only a death warrant because all of a sudden Hillary is supposed to have built on that 11-point lead, don't you see?
Two weeks ago, eleven-point lead, six-point lead, depending on the poll, Trump doing nothing, Hillary's spending millions.
Why, she was supposed to continue shooting up, but she's not.
So this might amount to a death warrant for traditional telephone polling, meaning we can't rely on our polls to produce the outcome that we want.
Doug Schwartz, the director of the Quinnipiac poll, most well known, now proclaimed to be the gold standard, said, you know, polls up to this point using telephones have been very accurate.
We see no reason to stop doing it.
I don't see any problem with the way traditional telephones uh doing what we're doing.
If if we're calling people on their cell phones, we'd have a huge problem.
We would be underrepresenting young people, but we're calling them.
We're getting hold of the people on the cell phones, we're getting retouched base with them, and in there telling us what they think.
On a typical weeknight, all 150 stations at Quinnipiax polling center are filled with pollsters making calls and conducting surveys.
So the poll that is now reputed to be the gold standards is we're not having any problems.
And it's that poll which shows Hillary leaking severely against all odds.
So here's old Rush, the old data denier himself.
Not believing the stuff two weeks ago.
Okay, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Top of the list, start at number one because there's a freak out over this in the drive-by media.
We'll start on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos speaking with ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd.
Matthew Dowd used to be a Republican Consultant analyst, what have you, uh, back during the Bush years, he's a moderate Republican, but now he's feels dirty, I guess.
So he's he's basically become a centrist.
Well, he always was one.
But now he's he's signed up with the drive-bys.
Uh for all intents and purposes.
So here is just run these two back to back, Stephanopoulos and Matthew Dowd, number one and two.
Let's get to those new Quinnipiac polls out this morning.
Probably the most surprising is that that big flip in the state of Florida over the last month, uh eight-point Hillary Clinton lead, now a deficit.
What do you think is going on?
Something's moved in the country over the course of the last few weeks.
I think it had a lot to do with the FBI director's press conference, and then the hearing, that has affected her trust numbers, which have always been problematic.
This is a huge problem for Hillary Clinton.
It looks like she has a national lead, but in the electoral states, she is either tied or behind in them.
And so it sets up a scenario where she can win the popular vote but lose the electoral conversation.
This is even before the Republican convention next week.
Yes, George, it's before the convention, and it's before Donald Trump's vice presidential announcement, which will give him an added bump.
This should be a concerning thing to Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
Wait a minute, just two weeks ago was over.
Two weeks ago, Trump.
Well, I wanted to repeat myself.
But now, in the battleground states, oh no.
Oh, geez.
What are we all going to do?
We just excoriated a bunch of people for being data deniers, which means these people can't go out and deny this data without being hypocrites, except that they are.
CBS this morning, New York Times magazine chief national correspondent Mark Liebovich talking with Charlie Rose, who said, uh, how do you assess the tightening of the race in these swing states?
The Quinnipiact poll and the decline in some of the numbers for Hillary.
Swing states tend to go back and forth, maybe more than other states.
This is a snapshot.
I mean, all polls are snapshots, but this in particular does uh encapsulate the last ten days during which the FBI investigation was completed.
It was a rough few days for Hillary Clinton.
I think this reflects that.
I think in the big picture, though.
I mean, I think that the upshot of the FBI investigation is that this will not be a long-term problem.
I think this could be something she recovers from.
Wishful thinking.
Oh, it's just a snapshot.
Oh, we can't believe it, because oh, it doesn't really mean anything.
No, it doesn't have any legs.
Her lack of honesty, the perception she's not trustworthy, that's got legs.
Uh those characteristics applied to her have been around long before Trump even thought about becoming a contestant for the Republican presidential nomination.
All polls are snapshots.
But in this particular case, uh big picture.
I think a shot of the FBI investigation, and that'd be a long-term problem.
Yeah, well, uh.
Two weeks ago.
I keep reminding Hillary was gonna run away, set to run away with this.
And what is this?
Swing states snapshots?
Rough few days for Hillary.
Well, I thought it was a rough few days for Trump.
Hillary was spending millions of dollars on ads craming Trump, disparaging Trump, unsuitable, unqualified, bad temperament.
I thought that was supposed to overcome whatever.
Problem.
Snapshot problem.
She had with the email thing for crying out loud.
And by the way, folks, it's not just the Quinnipiact poll on swing states.
In today's McClatchy Marist poll, Hillary is only leading nationally by three.
That's within the margin of error.
And what else?
Uh there was an NBC poll yesterday that showed Hillary's numbers are slipping uh nationally.
So it's not just the Quinnipiact poll.
Okay, time to hit the phones.
Trump's VP uh uh looks like Pence or Christie.
And there's a little more to pass on than that if we can trust what uh is being fed us.
Not sure I do.
But in the meantime, here's um Iliana from Miami.
Great to have you with us.
How are you?
Oh, nice for you to uh to have me on your show.
Uh, I love the name.
It's one of my all-time top ten female names.
It's Julian.
I I I love listening to you because you tell the truth.
Um I'm uh a transplant American.
I came here with my parents at the age of eight from Cuba.
Uh I like to say of myself, I'm Cuban born and American raised.
I'm very proud of the United States.
I'm very proud of America, the greatest country that ever, ever lived and ever was, and I am really afraid for our country.
Uh we came here and our parents worked hard.
Uh we were educated, we reach middle class status, and some of us in my family hire the middle class.
And when I hear um representatives of this black life matters, which is just a hate group.
It is a hate group of white people.
They're racist, and their only uh concern, their only idea is the destruction of this country, the replacement of our system for what system?
For a Marxist system.
And we see it.
It's going on in this country.
Americans don't realize it.
Americans think that they're 200 plus years of a democracy can withstand anything and everything.
You know what?
I think you have a point about that.
I I I don't think people understand what BLM is really on.
Not just them.
All of these leftist groups.
I don't think people who don't listen to this program every day like you do.
I don't think they really, Ileana, understand what the objective of these groups is.
You're you're you're so right.
And I have to tell you, I have met more people from Cuba who've come to America.
You're great people.
Our last caller, Iliana from from Miami, by way of CUA.
She's exactly right about Black Lives Matter.
Folks, the the way to understand Black Lives Matter, it's a Democrat front group.
It really is no more than that.
They they struggle, they not struggle.
They're not struggling much.
They strive to make themselves look like they're independent and not attached to any particular political party, and that is to provide a Democrat Party cover.
But just like Occupy Wall Street, they're a Democrat front group.
And everybody thinks that black lives matter organically materialized after the George Zimmerman acquittal in the uh murder, the killing, the accidental death, whatever it was of uh Trayvon Martin.
Who President Obama said if he had a son uh would look like Trevon Martin.
My my question, since Obama speculates on his son, would an Obama's son be a member of Black Lives Matter?
Or uh the new Black Panthers, yeah.
What which which which of those groups would Obama's speculative son be a member of?
Just wondering.
Black lives matters.
BLM.
If you want to know the truth about these people.
Basically inspired by a cop killer.
Who happens to now be living in Cuba.
Black Lives Matter says that it draws its inspiration from a cop killer named Asaha Shakur, not to be confused with the late one pack tour or Shakur.
Asata Shakur is a former Black Panther and black liberation army leader convicted of first-degree murder of a policeman, sentenced to life in 1973.
However, Asata Shakur escaped in 1979, was granted political asylum in Cuba, and still is there to the best of my knowledge.
Well, I mean, if if if Black Lives Matter was not a Democrat front group, then George Soros would not be funding them.
They are a Democrat front group.
Just like just like Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Wall Street did not organically appear.
It didn't just efferve out of a protest movement, a Democrat Party.
They were created after the Tea Party.
Did organically materialize.
Oh my God, this is serious Tea Party.
This is big.
We we we We need a counter.
So they created Occupy Wall Street and funded them, paid for them, never ever acknowledging any ties between Occupy Wall Street and Democrat Party, except the Democrat Party loved them and promoted them and so forth.
What, Obama's son would be a cop?
Ha!
There we went.
Right.
No, Soros has given Black Lives Matter 33 million dollars, which is what he gives to the groups that uh are doing work for the Democrat Party.
Soros spreads it around.
Okay, back to the phones.
Albert in uh in Augusta Main.
Great to have you on the program today, Albert High.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
And I wanted to touch on what you talked about in the first hour with uh the uh NAACP leader, I think it was in North Carolina that um said that there was essentially a lynching using that um device to kill that the suspect.
Um I wonder how uh how upset he was when uh President Obama sent the drone into I believe Yemen to assassinate one of our own citizens that was accused of being a terrorist, but uh no uh habeas corpus, no uh you know, trial by a jury or anything, just uh assassinated.
Where where was he at that time?
Oh, I'm I he might I don't think he said anything.
I I've I've uh it's a good point.
I I know you're asking a uh rhetorical question, but but in case you're just tuning in, the field marshal of the NAA L C P North Carolina chapter has indeed written, and he's out there saying that the cops using their robot bomb to uh to blow up uh the guy named X, whatever I'm what's his name?
I'm having a middle block in his name, Marcus X. Johnson.
Whatever Micah X that was a lynching.
It was just a lynching.
There were there was no charges, there were no trial, and so the guy is conducting a military-style assassination with AK-47.
What did the cops supposed to do?
Wave the white flag, call a halt, and conduct a trial on the battlefield, essentially.
Now, see, that's the kind of thing you go out, that's a loaded term.
You start calling this a lynching, and you have just awakened whatever stories have been told young blacks by their parents.
No, I'm not denying it happen, but it's it doesn't happen today.
That's that's the point.
That is the whole point.
No acknowledgement of any progress, no acknowledgement of any effort to progress.
No acknowledgement, no willingly uh agreeing with the notion that serious efforts have been made to advance.
But again, believe me, folks, all of this comes under the umbrella of the grievance industry, and what sets this grievance industry apart is that there is no desire for a solution.
That's the key to understanding this.
Whatever the grievance is, if the if every grievance item was granted, they would move the goalposts and come up with new demands.
It's not about solving anything, it's about tearing down the very fabric of the country is founded and replacing capitalism with communism.
But even if it were i even if that were granted, which would never would happen, but even if that were granted just to buy peace, even if some group of politicians, okay, okay, if you'll stop, we'll immediately convert to communism.
They wouldn't stop because the money is in continuing.
The fame, the notoriety, the energy is in the ongoing struggle.
There is nothing gained by solving this.
Because solving it requires an admission that the grievances have been addressed, and that's never going to happen.
Which is why I've always said these people have to be defeated politically, not allowed to win politically.
There is no way that any of these grievances can be granted or solved politically.
It won't be permitted.
That would drain the lifeblood out of these movements.
And they know it.
Who's next?
This is Paul in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Yeah, well, wonderful to be here, Rush.
Thanks for early on.
Yeah, um the uh rules committee at the RNC is meeting today and tomorrow, and the uh Trump crowd is uh hope hopefully uh going to put through something that will uh uh not permit uh some of Trump's delegates to uh uh to vote on the floor for him.
Uh one of the rationales they use to try to dump him is uh it was covered in a political article on Sunday.
Uh uh briefly the rationale is is as it says in the uh political article is Trump thrived on crossover voting by independents and even some Democrats.
That is totally bogus.
Uh there were thirty-nine primaries in which uh people, rank and file people got to vote.
Trump won thirty-three of them, uh, or eighty-six percent.
And uh among closed primaries where only Republicans uh only Republicans could vote, uh Trump won fourteen out of sixteen, or eighty-seven percent.
So uh Trump uh overwhelmed the opposition uh in uh primaries where only Republicans could vote, he overwhelmed them in primaries where Democrats were allowed to vote.
Uh there were fourteen open primaries, uh he won't.
Well, wait a minute, though.
I I I have a question.
So what?
What if Trump for forget your stats here for a second, which we acknowledge.
What if Trump succeeded in winning the Republican nomination or crossover voters?
Isn't that what the Republican leadership's been telling us we need to do anyway?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
What's wrong with that?
Uh you you remember Reagan and the Reagan Democrats.
Uh well, well, apparently we have uh we have Trump Democrats now, and yet nobody's talking about it.
Uh but it's in the numbers if you look at him.
Uh he won crushing victories uh in in every primary where people got to vote.
Now where he took a beating was in caucuses, uh, where party functionaries and uh some would say party hacks uh primarily get to vote.
Uh he won less than half of those, uh eight out of seventeen.
So he he's had trouble winning in in contests where party uh uh followers and hangers on vote, but among voters, he's run crushing victories.
Well, the uh this is clearly uh uh insider versus outsider battle establishment versus outsider.
The last I heard on this, uh, and it may not be the most recent, but the last I heard on this is that the never Trumpers are still working, and they're they're on a number of fronts.
They they are uh trying to have some success changing rules to unbind delegates on the first ballot.
The latest count that I saw in this effort, you know, the number remains twelve thirty-seven.
Trump has to get that on the first ballot or any ballot if he doesn't get it on the first.
Now toward the end of last week, I saw a story saying that they thought they had whittled the number of delegates who on their own would acknowledge and willingly vote for Trump down to nine hundred.
And that, of course, that wouldn't get Trump there.
So that story was made to look like the Never Trumpers were succeeding if they could prevail at the rules committee to change the rules and permit delegates to vote their conscience on the first ballot, rather than have to vote the way their states did.
Now the next number I've seen is what did I say, fifteen hundred that Trump now has that the effort is failing, falling short, at least the uh the effort on rules, that the the number of delegates now that uh they've surveyed that would vote for Trump in the first way over 1237 now is fifteen hundred or some such thing.
Um but they're not giving up.
And they are I I've even seen what is it, uh I've got a story here in the stack somewhere that they've they're they're trying to maneuver John Kasich back into position to eventually become a compromise choice if they can succeed in stealing all this away from Trump.
I'll find that during the break, which I have to take here pretty quickly.
I had it atop a moment ago, and it's uh it's Vominost somewhere here, somewhere else in the stack, which which I which I have to find.
We'll do that, and uh appreciate the call, Paul very much.
We'll be back here just a second.
Don't go away.
It's another poll.
Another poll.
The uh the uh Wall Street Journal NBC Marist.
It's a new poll.
Trump and Clinton are running neck and neck in Ohio and Iowa.
This goes along with the NBC Wall Street Journal poll that shows Hillary only up by two nationwide.
Clinton and Trump running neck and neck, Ohio and Iowa to add to the Quinnipia.
My question is this.
Mr. Snerdley.
He's in New York.
Are you paying attention?
Are you out?
Let me ask you a question.
Why are we still polling?
Because the people that are in the know.
I mean, all the experts were telling us that presidential elections are decided in June.
You remember that?
So why are we still even polling?
Hillary won the election in June, right?
Or she should have.
She was running all these ads, and Trump wasn't reacting to any of them.
He wasn't running any of his own.
Well, I know that's the point.
Nothing is there, they they continue to try to plug this campaign into their into their manual or their playbook.
I've I've warned them about this since last summer.
That they can't do it.
They're dealing with a different kind of animal this time in the Trump campaign.
It doesn't fit.
It just you you can't categorize it, predict it, analyze it the way you analyze somebody that's in politics all their life and and has the business aspects of politics down pat and follows the rules and the precepts and all that.
Trump's winging it.
There's no way you you can predict, analyze with somebody that you don't know what he's gonna do the next day and the day after that.
Here's the story on Kasich.
It's a Fox News story.
The stop Trump movement isn't dead yet.
And Ohio Governor John Kasich could be their last hope.
Republicans opposed to Trump reportedly making a fresh pitch for Kasich to step up as an alternative candidate ahead of the convention.
Uh former New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey asked Kasich allies on Sunday to contact him and urge him to offer himself as a sacrifice as an alternative at the convention.
This according to Cleveland.com.
Given our shared effort in the Kasich campaign, I'm sure you agree, Humphrey reportedly wrote.
But John needs encouragement to make the move.
Please email John and offer him your encouragement and continue backing.
It's not gonna get better than this.
But time is the essence, meaning the opportunity.
This is some time ago when Trump was supposedly flailing and uh drifting.
They're supposed to email no, no, no, no.
They're supposed to email allies of Kasich, not Kasich.
Gordon Humphrey asked Kasich allies to offer to to contact him and urge him to do it, but there's an email going out to Kasich Allies, which says John needs encouragement to make the move.
Please email John and offer him your encouragement and continued backing and point out our opportunity is never going to be better than it is right now.
But time is of the essence.
Now, this is a Fox News story.
So Humphrey's email highlights a key difficulty the anti-Trump Republicans have faced.
And that is they don't have an alternative candidate waiting in the wings is a rallying point for those opposed to Trump's nomination.
Well Who needs an alternative candidate?
I think I remember a number of establishment Republican types saying they're going to vote for Hillary instead of Trump.
That hasn't changed, has it?
I mean, it's just I haven't seen anything lately from those people, but it's uh it's out there.
There's something else on the tip of my tongue here.
Oh, Rines Prebus is out there calling these people sore losers.
The chairman of the RNC, Reinz Prebus.
Why are you laughing?
Is it sound funny to say Rines Prebus?
He's calling them sore losers out there.
Well, so we got some Hillary sound bites that just came in from a speech here.
I've got to take a break.
I just saw the club.
We're really up against it here.
So we have one big hour remaining on Open Line Friday and Wednesday.
We've got some Hillary Clinton sound bites just in that you um you want to hear.
Trump VP.
Looks like it's now to Pence.
Mike Pence, Indiana, Chris Christie, if we can trust it.
Not sure I do.
And Katrina Pearson, a Trump spokesbabe, just handed Wolf Blitz his lunch on CNN.
I was gonna play that for you right now, but it's five seconds longer than I had time for here.
So we'll do that uh when we get back here after this break.
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