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Oct. 27, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I don't know, is somebody, somebody said the polls were going to tighten as we get closer to the election.
I said it.
You heard me say it.
You heard me say, yeah.
I guess that's right.
Here, hey, folks, here's the bottom line.
There isn't anybody that knows what's going to happen here.
The best thing that you can do is to carry that attitude forward.
Nobody knows.
They really don't know.
Wait till you hear the audio soundbites coming up.
I got people today claiming, oh no, oh no, Trump can win.
Yesterday it was a Hillary landslide.
Same people.
Yesterday was a Hillary landslide.
Yesterday Trump had no hope.
Yesterday Trump was a walking buffoon making fools out of everybody on the Republicans that today he can win.
And what's changed?
A couple of polls.
A couple of polls.
It is amazing.
It's and look at being critical, can't avoid it.
It's just amazing how something that is not news becomes the leading news item every day, and that is polling results.
Nobody knows.
And yet, whatever the polls say every day, determine the entire shape of coverage and commentary and reaction by everybody.
It's not just the drive-by-s.
I mean, every we're all prisoners to it.
So I'm telling you, the best way to go forward for these next few days, nobody knows.
There's not a soul that knows.
The one thing you do know, the one thing you can be confident in knowing, is that on the Democrat side, it wasn't supposed to be going like this.
Whatever it is, the wiki leaks dumps were not supposed to be happening.
All the attention to Hillary's emails is supposed to have been taken care of and vomitos long, long ago.
Donald Trump should have been, was supposed to have been vanquished months ago.
This was supposed to be a coronation.
It was going to be a cakewalk.
And if you the Democrats, how can you blame them for thinking that?
They have literally been in bed with the media.
They have been the media has been attending strategy dinners with the Clinton campaign and John Podesta.
The Clinton campaign has most of the money sewn up.
The Clinton campaign is spending most of the money.
You can't blame them for thinking they had this wired.
And here we are, and nobody knows.
There isn't a soul who knows.
And nobody can know because it's the future.
And nobody can predict with you in ontological certitude what anybody is going to do on the election day.
And nobody can tell you what shocking news development may happen between now and then.
You think the Democrats are through with their October surprises?
I don't.
You think Trump might have a couple up his sleeve?
Who knows?
But there's still a lot of time to go here, my friends.
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The WikiLeaks dump today has something incredible in it, and it's going to take one of the things I I like to try to do each and every day is take the complex and make it understandable.
And that is sometimes folks it's it's it's challenging to do because in order to take something complex and make it understandable, the people to whom you're speaking have to have at least a quasi foundation of understanding of the subject matter.
And I think in this case, most every one of you do, the specific Leak to which I'm referring is a series of emails that show the absolute connection between the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation and Bill and Hillary Clinton getting personally rich from their foundations.
The email dumped today is largely focused on a man named Doug Band, who was a former Clinton, but he may still be an advisor, I don't know.
And he had a company called Tenneo, or Taneo, it's T-E-N-E-O.
And he was once in legal trouble for co-mingling, if you will, going back and forth between his company to the Clinton Foundations and sharing donors and siphoning donations off for personal usage.
And at one point he got so frustrated: hey, if you're coming after me, why aren't you going after Bill Clinton?
He did the same thing.
And he called the Operation Bill Clinton Inc.
And what Bill, and it's a term that I used all the way back in 2008, and Obama used it in 2008 when he was campaigning against Hillary.
And what Bill Clinton Inc.
means incorporated, Bill Clinton Inc.
What it means is that the Clintons found a way to get personally rich from the creation of their foundation and some of the satellites, one of them being the Clinton Global Initiative.
And the email dump from WikiLeaks today documents it in ways that if you if you if you don't have a foundational understanding, it's going to sound like it's in the weeds.
And it's really, I have to tell you, in thinking about whether to do this and to dig into it, there's a real question I have, because the objective here is to keep you listening.
But if this is not done right, if I get off too deep in the weeds, it's not going to make any sense to you, and you're going to lose interest in it because you won't be able to keep up and it'll be my fault.
So I'm still thinking how I want to share this data with you.
It prints out the six pages, and I'm not going to sit here and read six pages.
I mean, by the time I get to page two, you would have forgotten what I told you on page one.
So I've got to find a way.
But don't worry, this is my job, man.
It is what I do.
He's making it complex, understandable.
And I'm going to find a way to do it because it confirms what everybody suspected all along.
In fact, there's even an email.
Within the Clinton campaign, the Hillary campaign, they're emailing back and forth about the challenges their campaign faces.
And it's a woman, forget her name, uh it might be the well, doesn't matter who it is.
Six questions she is asking other members of the campaign team, and question number six in her memo slash email.
What's the difference in Bill Clinton, what he did and Bill Cosby?
That's something they thought they were going to have to deal with.
As all of these women came forward and all of the news about Clinton abusing women and philandering around cheating on Hillary.
They thought, this is some months ago, that they might have to deal with somebody asking, hey, how's he any different than Bill Cosby?
So they were ramping up and preparing to answer those kinds of questions.
But of course, the questions never came because the drive-by media is in bed with these people.
They're having strategy session dinners at Podesta's house.
I think 35 members of the media named in this document dump.
Now, about this document dump, folks, I've been seriously asking myself, where does this come from?
Who did hack into these servers?
Now, the Democrat Party wants us to believe that it's the Russians.
And the Democrat Party from the White House on down is blaming the Russians.
And Obama is leading that charge, blaming the Russians and other ranking Obama administration officials are blaming the Russians.
What if the Russians have nothing to do with this?
Do you realize how Risky and dangerous it is if the Russians have nothing to do with this for our president and his administration trying to tell the world that they did it?
And what if they didn't?
And they're just they're casually playing around with the angering and the they're provoking a potential nuclear enemy here for their own selfish little political purposes.
But what if Julian Assange didn't get any of this from the Russians?
Well, then where did it come from?
It had to come, somebody who did this hack, whoever did it, because there aren't any hacks of Republican servers.
RNC, Trump, you name it, there isn't an equivalent or corresponding hack of the Republicans.
So whoever is doing this has a grudge against somebody, the Democrats at large, or Hillary or Bill, maybe it's Podesta, it's his email account, his Gmail account that's been hacked here, and as a result, everybody that emailed with him has been hoovered, if you will, sucked up in this hack.
So who could have done it?
Who out there has a revenge motive against the Democrats?
Who have the Democrats mistreated, maligned, impugned in such a way who have the skills and the talents to be able to affect this.
And because this is an incredible hack, folks.
This, the volume, the latest news from whoever it is, you know what?
The latest news from whoever it is, the hacker claims he has, she, whoever, the 33,000 emails Hillary deleted.
The hacker claims to have them.
Well, I'll guarantee you the hackers reading these things.
And I've noticed a pattern.
And I look, I'm just openly speculating with you here.
I have noticed a pattern.
Whenever the Democrats release something along the lines of an October surprise about Trump, it isn't long before there's another dump of hacked emails from Podesta.
It's almost like whoever's doing this is following along our campaign.
And whenever the Democrats unload on Trump, the hacker releases another trove of anti-Democrat stuff, as though, and as if the hacker is attempting to limit the damage to Trump by taking the focus off of whatever the Democrats are ladling out about Trump and dumping another trove of Podesta emails.
Now, that's just something I have sensed.
I've not done a sit-down study and uh actually charted it.
It just seems that way to me.
I can be all wet about this.
But my point here is I think this is not the Russians.
This is more personal.
There's something about this.
I mean, you realize how deep this hack is?
And it's only of Democrats.
And in a normal, let me tell you something, folks, in a normal campaign season, this stuff gets Hillary Clinton out of the race.
Everything that has been uncovered here, the Clintons are gone.
Everything that's been uncovered here, the Democrats would not want to even stick their necks out to try to support.
But because Trump is the nominee, and because the elites just think Trump is the absolute worst thing had ever come down the pike.
Everybody remains united around the Clintons.
But this, this is this makes Richard Nixon and what he even thought about doing.
Looking like a kindergarten Halloween party.
This is major, major stuff that's being revealed here that these people have engaged in.
Just the Financial aspects of this alone, the finagling, the commingling of money, the selling of influence, Mrs. Clinton is Secretary of State, foreign countries, foreign donors, uh, the mechanisms by which that are detailed by which Bill Clinton.
One of the ways it works is that they'll go out and they'll seek a donation of Clinton Foundation, say from Coca-Cola.
Or from the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Trust, or whatever.
I mean, they're there's they're hitting on everybody, the Clintons are, and their aides, their employees at the foundation.
And one of the things that often is included is in addition to your donation, we would like you to hire Bill Clinton as a consultant for $3.9 million a year to advise you on strategic whatever.
They hit up various corporations, and the corporations have done it.
According to these emails, corporations are paying Bill Clinton $3.5, $3.9 million a year to consult after also donating to the foundation.
What do they think they're getting for this?
I mean, do they really like Bill Clinton so much that they want to give him $3.9 million after donating another number of millions to his foundation?
For what?
This is this is way beyond the appearance of impropriety.
It's just being covered up in masks by the drive-by media.
Who thinks it's a bigger story that somebody took a blowtorch to Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I mean, this is this this stuff in these leaks is is um it's devastating.
And then the more we learn about the email scandal and the and the cronyism that went on between Obama and the FBI and granting Obama granting Hillary's assistance status as lawyers after granting them immunity, Cheryl Mills I'm talking about, and then agreeing to destroy her laptop after supposedly procuring all the evidence they needed from it.
I mean, they're willfully destroying evidence here.
They're immunizing the potentially guilty and getting nothing for it.
I mean, the scandals here go beyond the average ordinary American's ability to absorb it all.
They are so dramatic, they're so constant and so frequent.
But since none of it has really been reported, there isn't any foundation of understanding on the part of the mass population for it.
They to them, it's just the same old tired allegations these mean Republicans make about the Clintons and so forth.
But I mean, it's devastating what's being learned.
And this and this information is coming to us from Democrat sources.
It's from their emails, it's from their communications back and forth on how this uh foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hillary campaign, how it's all run and operates, how it shakes things, shakes people down.
So it all adds up to nobody knows.
And I want to go get back to that.
We take a break here, get back to nobody knows, and the shift in polls that represents this overnight change of fortune in the way it's being reported.
It's amazing.
Sit tight.
Back after this.
And we're back in a cutting-edge societal evolution Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Quick review of the polls, and then we get back for the break.
We'll do sound bites to back all this up.
Fox News.
Clinton's lead cut in half.
She was up six, now she's up three in the Fox News poll.
The drive-bys take this seriously.
Hate Fox News, but they believe in the Fox poll.
Interesting thing about the Fox poll is that even the Fox poll oversampled Democrats by seven percentage points.
Democrats sampled are 44%, Republicans 37%.
The Democrat advantage is around two and a half to three.
I'm not complaining.
Don't misunderstand.
I've given up complaining about these things.
I just cite them.
But Fox News has uh has Trump cutting Hillary's lead in half, even with a Democrat oversample, 7% from the Hill.com polls tighten for Trump Clinton.
Polls are tightening in the presidential race with less than two weeks ago Before election day.
You know the pollsters ought to do what they did in 1948.
You may not know this.
In 1948, the pollsters stopped polling two weeks before election day.
There are very, very, very, very, very, very few people who know this.
I happen to be one who does.
That's why everybody was so shocked.
Everybody went to bed thinking that Dewey had won.
Big headline greets everybody the next day.
But in fact, Truman had the reason they were surprised nobody polled in the last two weeks.
Drive-by's might want to think about that because the news apparently is not good for them.
Some new surveys show that uh Clinton's national polling edge is narrowing, and in some of the battleground states, Florida and Ohio as well.
Hillary lead cut in half in Washington Post ABC tracking poll.
However, the AP is here to pick up the slack.
Hang on.
Okay, a couple of little additional bits of information.
The Fox poll last week that had Hillary up six.
They oversampled the Democrats by what was it, 9%?
This week, with Hillary's lead cut from six points to three points, the Democrat oversample of the Fox News poll is 7%.
So you reduce reduce the number of Democrats in the sample, and Hillary's support comes down.
It makes sense.
The ABC Washington Post tracking poll oversample Democrats by 7%.
Democrats 36% of the group, Republicans 29%.
And the rest of these people are independents and unaffiliated and all that, and we're being told that there are more of them than there are Republicans or Democrats.
But the thing to do is when you look at all these, you add the Democrats to the unaffiliated in the independents.
So in just for example, in the ABC Washington Post tracking poll, you've got 36% Democrats and 29% Republican.
But then you add some of the independents over Hillary.
You've got to figure it some of the unaffiliated.
So basically you have a sample, and out of a hundred percent of it, 29% are people who say they're Republican.
Now you can take that for what it's worth.
I'm not attaching any scientific significance to it because I am not a scientific pollster.
I'm just giving you the way I look at these things.
You remember now my headline today is nobody knows.
So let's just quick review here.
Fox News, Trump has cut Hillary's lead in half.
She's up three from six.
The Hill.com shows a couple of other polls.
Real clear politics national average.
Clinton's lead softened from seven points to five points.
This is amazing.
A few days ago, ABC News reported a 12-point lead for Hillary Clinton in their tracking poll.
Let me by the way, this 12-point lead stuff and 11-point lead.
Do you remember what Obama beat McCain by in 2008?
It was seven points, something, eight points, something like that.
In 2012, Obama beat Romney by 3.8 points.
What is this 11 and 12-point lead stuff?
You notice it's dwindling now.
All these polls, somebody, somebody said this is gonna happen as we get closer to Election Day.
But but wait a minute, we've got the AP here.
We have the Associated Press and the Associated Press does not reflect anything that you just heard.
Hillary Clinton appears on the cusp of a commanding victory, says the AP today.
Hillary Clinton appears on the cusp of a potentially commanding victory over Donald Trump, fueled by solid Democrat turnout in early voting, massive operational advantages, and increasing enthusiasm among her supporters.
Overall, the AP poll shows Clinton leading Trump by 14 points among likely voters 5137.
So the Fox poll cuts it in half six to three.
The ABC poll, 12 points down to six.
Trump is leading in Florida, Bloomberg up by two.
AP out here remain and now is the outlier at 14 points.
And where are they getting all of this enthusiasm for Hillary?
I read that and I said, what have I missed?
Fueled by solid Democrat turnout in early voting.
Well, you know, I've looked at the numbers in Republican early voting.
There's two things about that.
The numbers are staggering.
The number of people who've already voted early voting, Republicans hold a nominal lead, at least this was as of yesterday.
But then you add this.
Early voting hasn't yet begun in three or four really big Trump counties in Florida.
Hasn't even started yet.
There hasn't been, this is this is truth.
I mean, this is our eyes don't lie.
There hasn't been any enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton and his whole campaign.
She hasn't been able to draw a crowd anywhere.
Her book doesn't sell.
Tim Kane draws crowds of 30.
There hasn't been any enthusiasm.
Now all of a sudden the AP's got a poll out with a 14-point lead and massive operational advantages, increasing enthusiasm among her supporters.
Among likely voters, the poll oversampled Democrats by 9 points.
They oversampled Democrats in general by 11 points.
This poll oversampled registered voters by 10.
So the likely voter oversample, Democrat 9, the general, just Democrat, whether going to vote or not, oversample is 11%.
And the registered voter segment of the poll, Democrats oversampled by 10 points.
And these minor details are buried on page 40 of the 45-page PDF file explaining the results of the AB poll.
But they're there.
14-point lead, AP.
What is the next one here?
Oh yes, another AP story.
Some waiver from Trump in deep red Ohio suburbs.
And they win out here.
This always happens.
The AP is always able to find a Republican fed up with his nominee.
They're always able to do it at this stage of the campaign.
James Stepp says he's an Ohio Republican supporting Hillary Clinton is reason.
A Trump presidency, he says would damage the GOP for years to come.
Quote, the party needs a jettison Donald Trump in order to survive, said step 29 years old.
A Franklin, Ohio, in Warren County, voting for a Democrat in order to save the Republican Party is not a common thread of presidential campaigns by any means.
But this is no ordinary election, and many Republicans are finding reasons to back away from a nominee whose provocative rhetoric and treatment of women uphall them.
this is just it's just to camp and Never ceases to amaze me how the AP always finds Republicans to say exactly what the AP thinks.
Isn't that amazing?
Isn't that funny?
The AP always is able to go out there in the deepest red part of America and find a Republican that thinks exactly like the AP does.
And especially the millennial, a 29-year-old, why it couldn't get any more perfect.
And you know what?
What is the word of one guy?
It's anecdotal, is it not?
There's no science here.
AP went out and they found one guy, a 29-year-old Republican, James Stepp, who says he's got to vote for Hillary to save the Republican Party.
Who thinks that way outside of magazine editors and so forth?
What?
Seriously, we had to vote Hillary to save the Republican Party.
But anyway, it's one guy.
That's anecdotal.
And we're not supposed to pay attention to anecdotal news.
It's just not scientific enough.
I mean, it's just one guy, and yet the AP is signaling that this one guy, in his opinion, means Hillary Clinton landslide.
Yet 15,000 guys and women at a Trump route.
No, no, no.
Doesn't mean anything, Mr. Limbaugh.
You're supposed to ignore that.
That's anecdotal.
There's no science behind that.
We don't know how many of those 15,000 are going to vote.
We don't know how many of those 15,000 are going to vote for Trump if they vote.
We don't know anything.
You can't factor the size of Trump rallies into any projection.
You just can't do it.
We in the media are not going to do it.
We're not going to let you get away with it.
Yet they can go out and they can find one guy in Warren County, Ohio.
Twenty-nine years old, claiming he's voting Hillary to save the Republican Party.
And that is enough of a news story to shape an entire story that is based on the premise that Trump is going to lose big because Hillary is brilliantly out there working Republican-dominated suburbs to find angry Republicans.
So Ohio's important again?
That's another thing.
Remember, Ohio was vitally important when Hillary was ahead.
When Hillary fell behind, the New York Times and the AP, remember those stories told us Ohio is no longer a bellwether.
Ohio doesn't matter anymore, they said.
You know why?
Because there aren't enough black people live there.
Too many white people in Ohio.
It doesn't matter anymore.
It's not relevant.
It's not a bellwether.
It doesn't tell us anything.
This is just three weeks ago, folks.
Three weeks ago, these same schlubs at the AP, who are reporting on one guy, 29-year-old Republican Warren County, Ohio, saying he's voting for Hillary to save the GOP.
That's the gospel.
Three weeks ago, Ohio was irrelevant.
But now one guy, anecdotal, is enough to write a story combined with their new poll showing Hillary up 14 to bury the Trump campaign.
And that's how they do it.
It'll be back, don't quote.
Okay, time to go to the audio sound bites now.
This to back up the polling data just shared with you.
As I mentioned, the ABC poll is is magically down to six points from twelve.
And here we have on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos talking with Matthew Dowd, a former Republican.
Well, he worked for George W. Bush.
Now he's gone over to the dark side.
He's a he's a drive-by analyst.
Ostensibly, I don't even know if he's a Republican anymore.
So he's there.
And Cokey Roberts, and they're talking about the polls and the presidential race.
Stephanopoulos says, Matt, Matthew Dowd, where does the race stand now?
Our own tracking poll shows it's closer.
It's down to six points from twelve, Matt.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
Instead of describing this as tightening, I would describe it as settling.
The race is settling, as we remember having conversation just a few days ago when we had the race at 12.
I said I thought the race was roughly at six.
This race has been at five or six.
150 days ago when the general election started, it was at five or six.
A hundred days ago it was at five or six.
Two weeks ago it was at five or six.
A week ago it was at five or six.
So I think the race is just settling back into its natural equilibrium.
If he somehow moves the race below four to three or two, then this race is very competitive.
Oh, so they have nothing to worry about yet?
It's always been five or six, other than that one couple of times it was twelve.
But this guy said it's nothing happening out there.
It's always been five or six.
No, it hasn't.
You people have never portrayed this as that close.
You haven't done that shortly after The Democrat convention.
That was the last time.
Since then it's been landslide territory.
But this guy's, I've always been telling everybody five or six.
I've always been it's no different.
Now, but look what he's allowing.
Now, if this gets to below four to three or two, then the race is competitive.
Yesterday, Trump was gone.
Yesterday, Trump was finished.
Yesterday, Trump was humiliatingly out of the race because he had taken time out to go to the hotel opening, plus the women, plus all the other stuff, plus the fact that they just hate Trump.
He was history.
He was toast.
It was over.
But now, today.
And because of one thing, their poll.
One thing.
Why would anybody rely on these people?
We're not getting any expert analysis of anything.
We're getting people reading numbers and telling you what they think about the numbers.
But it can get close now.
Oh no.
And here is Cookie Roberts.
Right, right.
Women are not going for him.
And uh, but it is, I agree with Matt completely.
It's settling, but it could get quite tight.
Uh Republicans have come home, and I think that you're gonna see uh some questioning among some of the women who have been saying that they're for Hillary Clinton right now, but have never really been all that happy about it.
What?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
We now learn today for the first time that the female support for Hillary's been soft, not hard.
It's been soft.
Uh Republicans are starting to come home, meaning yesterday the Republicans hated Trump and they couldn't stand it.
Today they're coming home.
And uh women been saying they're for Hillary, but they've never really been all that happy about it.
Cokey, how'd you know that?
Why are we just learning this today?
Why didn't you tell us two months ago, a month ago, six weeks ago, that the female support for Hillary wasn't all that tight.
It wasn't all that hard.
Why today is it soft?
Is it because the Oprah went out there and said, hey, you don't have to like her to vote for her?
Did you see that endorsement from the Oprah?
The Oprah endorsed Hillary by basically saying, hey, you don't have to invite her to your house.
You don't have to like her, but you should vote for her.
And that's what Koky Roberts sounds like a little bit here.
Well, you know, women have never really, really been all that tight.
It's never been a support's not been met hard this often.
Well, we're not through it.
David Rodham Gurgen, CNN, Aaron Burnett out front last night.
He could definitely win this.
It is possible for him to win.
It remains an uphill fight because of the electoral college, but he could get there.
I think he has been helped by the fact that he hasn't been quite so much mired in defensiveness about the craziness that he went through with Miss Universe and sex tape and women coming forward.
He's finally got a little bit of a clearing.
And by the way, these polls, I think, do not yet show the impact of the Obamacare spike in premium prices.
Which should add a little more weight to the Trump side.
But she still got the lead.
She's still the favorite, but he's knocking on the door again.
Did they did they hear what they say?
Look, can I translate this for you?
Yeah, last week they hated Trump.
They despised Trump.
Last week they hated Trump, but that Miss Universe thing went away.
Now people like him again.
They haven't heard about Miss Universe in a week.
Yeah.
So they hated him last week.
They didn't trust him because of women, but they hadn't been any news about women in a week, so they're coming home.
Really?
He can win this.
He can win the John King at CNN last night.
If the election's about creating jobs or about changing Washington, Trump wins.
Voters view him as the best candidate to do that by a big margin.
If it's about temperament, a role model for our children, Hillary Clinton wins by a huge margin.
So how the candidates shaped the race in this final week plus is critical.
If it's about jobs and change, Trump might win.
If it's about temperament, who's a role model for our children?
That is Hillary Clinton's basketball.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You mean if it's about jobs and the economy and the state of the country Trump can win?
When did that change?
Because that's always been what Trump's about.
Why wasn't it two weeks ago Trump could win?
This is what I mean, folks.
Everything that you've heard up till now, you may as well just forget it because these people are switching on a dime here, and it's the polls that are doing it.
I'll guarantee you, if tomorrow the polls show Hillary back up 10 to 12, these people are gonna say it's over.
Trump never had a prayer.
Nobody knows, folks.
No.
Trust your own instincts.
Nobody knows.
Okay, folks, another exciting broadcast hour is coming right up, so stay where you are.
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