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Nov. 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Interested in fairness here, folks, of the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, a delight to have you with us.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net dot US.
I want to review the latest reporting on the FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation in just a moment.
Plus review some of the latest news of where we are in the campaigns.
And what the polling data happens to be saying because it's quite contradictory depending on where you look.
And it's actually tailored for if you if you want to believe something, you can find it.
If you're a Trump supporter and you want to find good news, you can.
If you're a Hillary supporter and you're desperate to find good news, you can find it.
That's what the drive-by's are all about.
And contrary, you can find bad news for both if you want, as uh as well.
Let me grab a quick phone call here because I want to bounce off this.
This is RJ in Olatha, Kansas.
RJ, great to have you on the program.
How are you doing, sir?
Okay, thanks, Russ.
Thanks for taking the call.
Unless our first-time caller.
Uh quick question.
Uh um, what do you think the likelihood is of Trump uh receiving a November 7th surprise?
Something on Monday comes out from the left.
Should be bombastic, tell me untrue, whatever.
Buck could control the headlines all day Monday.
Without getting Trump.
I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I've in fact I've been waiting for a couple things to drop that haven't yet.
That a number of us have been waiting to drop and haven't.
So something like that on the seventh.
Um look, nothing in this campaign uh would surprise me on either side.
I'm I'm not sure the Trump people are through either.
I think they may have some things to drop yet to go on on Hillary.
I've no idea what.
Uh this is such an unusual campaign.
And we've got somebody running for office that has no fingerprints on anything to do with public policy.
We've got a guy, Donald Trump, it's never been in government.
Whatever is going wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump.
He's not been there.
He has not one fingerprint, hasn't done one thing regarding anything policy-wise that's happening in the uh in the country today.
And I think this is why his candidacy is so shocking and frightening to both establishment and Republican Democrats.
He represents uh uh something that they just cannot abide, and that would be the uh overthrow of their establishment or their little elite ruling class.
And it has them really bugged, and they don't know how to campaign again.
Let me give you an analogy.
Um Herman Cain, if you go back to the Republican primaries of what, 2012.
Herman Cain, couple of women claiming that he had had this or that relationship or this or that grope or whatever, and he's gone, two or three women.
And it didn't take much at all.
And he's sadly was out of there.
It was trumped up, but he's out of there.
Donald Trump has survived everything they've thrown at him.
Everything.
And not only survived it, he's thrived.
Donald Trump, depending on where you look in polling data today, is either dead even or in some battleground states, is actually ahead.
Wherever this race is, the one thing's for certain, and that is the Clinton side had no idea this is where it would be.
They thought this was a slam dunk.
They thought that Clinton was going to be up 10, 15 points by now, and it would be all over, but the shouting, they are the ones in the uncomfortable position.
They don't really know how it's happened to them because every traditional way in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Trump.
Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent.
Not only has he survived it, and as I say in many cases, he has thrived.
And so all bets are off.
That's that's why I think traditional polling may not be uh actually correct, uh, traditional reporting, traditional analysis, because so much of this is unprecedented, at least in our lifetimes.
I mean, somebody that literally has no experience, and by that I don't mean as a negative, he just hasn't been involved in the quote unquote business of politics, is a genuine outsider.
And I think one of the things helping Trump is he hasn't known what he can't do.
It's not in his vernacular, it's not in his vocabulary, it's not in his way of thinking what he can't do, what you're not supposed to do, and you can't do it that way.
None of that applies.
And I think it's it's it's attractive to a tremendous number of people.
Uh but RJ, I appreciate the call.
I do think the Clintons are not through.
I do think something's gonna drop.
They're waiting for it.
I don't know.
The and the seventh, you know, the day before the election, it could be the Bush DUI drop happened on the Friday before the election, and it steamed all through the weekend when it was allowed to settle and fester, and there wasn't a whole lot the Bush team could do to reject it given news cycles over the weekend.
And it could well be that whatever, if there is something the Clintons have yet to drop on Trump, it could happen tomorrow.
It will not happen Saturday or Sunday.
Well, I say that, but I actually think all bets are off in this campaign.
They're clearly panicking on the Hillary side.
Hillary's clearly panicked.
She still can't draw crowds.
Obama's drawing crowds, she can't.
Tim Cain had something like 20 people at a rally somewhere wherever he was yesterday.
This is another there's literally no evidence of any energy for Hillary Clinton out there.
None.
Wherever she goes or wherever Cain goes, there's no evidence of any energy for her.
There is when Obama shows up.
But he's president.
He's naturally going to draw a crowd no matter what.
She does not.
Trump, you cannot have an arena big enough to get everybody in that wants to see him.
And they tell us that doesn't matter.
That's all anecdotal.
That doesn't mean anything, Rush.
You can't judge them because it's not scientific.
You don't know how those people are going to vote.
You don't know if they're going to vote.
You don't know why they're there.
But, and I love this.
It didn't stop the AP one week ago.
Remember this?
They found one guy in Ohio, a 29-year-old farmer that was going to vote for Hillary to save the Republican Party.
And boy, we were going to be able to take that one guy's vote and learn from it that Trump was going to lose Ohio.
So they can take one voter and take his experiences and extrapolate that and expand that to mean what a whole state's going to do.
But 17,000 people showing up to see Trump, there's nothing to learn there.
No indication there.
You can't see anything.
There's nothing really to put your fingers on.
Don't get your hopes up, folks.
That's what they try to tell you.
Ted Cruz is going to campaign with Mike Pence for the Trump Pence ticket in Iowa and Michigan.
Mitch McConnell has made his strongest statement yet on his party's presidential nominee, telling a rally in Kentucky yesterday that, quote, we need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America.
That is not what Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell hasn't gotten anywhere close to saying anything like that at all in this entire campaign.
So I'm asking you, what's going on with this?
Let me present to you some possibilities.
Mitch McConnell's looking into T Leaves.
You know what, this guy, Trump, this he can win.
And if he wins, I want to be on, I want to be on the train.
You know, I want to be in the light.
If Trump were going to lose, if if the polling data were such that all these Republicans thought Trump was going to lose, would they be getting on board today or yesterday?
I don't think so.
Now you might say, but Russia's got to do something.
It looks like the Republicans might lose the Senate and Nevada is key.
So McConnell's got to do something to keep these Republicans on board to vote for Senate Canada.
Well, yeah, he could easily do that by going to Nevada.
If he thinks Trump is going to lose, Why would he publicly endorse Trump this way?
If he thinks he's going to lose, how does that work?
How does that manifest into convincing people to vote for your guy for the Senate?
On the other hand, if McConnell's looking at this, and I guarantee you, there are Republicans and never Trumpers all over this country who are shocked themselves, just as shocked as Hillary is.
They were all thinking and hoping that Trump would be down ten by now, and that it would effectively be over, and that they can already be running around saying, told you so.
See, you guys, you should have listened to us.
This guy was never going to work.
It's damaging the Republican Party, damaging the conservative.
Well, they can't say that now.
Because it's out there that she could lose.
It is out there.
It's being considered that she could win, not everywhere, but in a number of places.
So it's still an open possibility.
And maybe McConnell is one of those.
We'll find out.
Republican voters coming home to Trump.
This is the Hill.com.
Republican voters finally coming home to Donald Trump after months of flagging support, threatened to put the White House out of reach.
Independents leaning toward Trump in polls after FBI Furor erupts.
This is David Lightman at McClatchy News in Florida.
A new CNN orc survey of Florida voters had Clinton up two.
Quinnipiac had her up one.
Trump was leading among independent voters, 46 to 40, according to Quinnipiac.
In Pennsylvania.
Quinnipia gives Clinton a four-point edge.
CNN had her up five.
Clinton was ahead by four with independent voters, Quinnipiax says.
North Carolina, this is a mystery.
This is exactly what I was talking about.
I got three polls here.
I got WRAL and Raleigh and a couple of other relatively new polls in North Carolina, and they have Trump up anywhere from five to seven.
But I think Monmouth or a couple others have Hillary up five in North Carolina.
She don't know what's going on in North Carolina.
I had somebody ask me the other, oh, it's Snerdle.
So what rush will happen to North Carolina?
Why in the world?
Is North Carolina even a possibility for the Democrats?
And I said it's because of all the New Yorkers who have fled New York, the Northeasterners who have fled their liberal Northeastern enclaves and have relocated to Southern states, including North Carolina, and they're in the process of screwing them up, just like they screwed up the Northeastern states.
They had to leave.
High property tax, high income tax, no jobs.
So they flee and they take everything they believe that led to all that to these Southern states.
So North Carolinians, let's say it's the Yankee invasion that's causing this.
The problem is when they move, they don't adapt.
They bring their liberalism with them.
And so that's why North Carolina said to be in play.
Pat Cadell.
Jimmy Carter Polster, 1980, says Hillary's camp has a look of desperation.
Every single issue now favors Trump.
Says he senses a look of desperation about trying to prop her up coming from the Hillary campaign.
I tell you, folks, they tell us that we can't go by this, but she literally does not create any excitement wherever she goes.
She still isn't drawing crowds.
And it does, it does appear that she's being propped up in these places.
And the media, which is obviously on her side in her corner, is reporting and telling stories along the lines of it's over, it's a landslide.
Hillary Clinton's already elected, they're planning the inauguration parties.
The only stories are out there and they're designed to suppress depress and otherwise confuse people into thinking that if they oppose Hillary, they have no hope.
It's a common tactic.
Now, as to the FBI investigation.
I I want to get I want to get back to this because it's I think it's it's it's crucial for people to understand the president's doing his best to deflect attention away from it.
The Democrats are treating it as though there's nothing to see here, and yet it's monumental.
It is profound.
And I just want to make one thing trying to make the complex understandable, as clear as I can.
For those of you who have reached your emotional capacity on caring about emails, Hillary's emails, you're tired of hearing about it.
You don't know anything more about it than you first heard about it.
You don't know what it's about, but it doesn't affect you.
And you're right.
This isn't about emails.
When you get right down to it, in my attempt to tell you what this is about, it isn't about emails.
Why did Hillary Clinton set up a server to handle her email in her home and not use government servers like everybody else does?
Why did she not use the State Department Network?
She was Secretary of State.
Why didn't she use it?
She's conducting official government business.
It is open to certain Freedom of Information Act requests.
Why didn't she use it?
There's a reason she didn't use it.
The reason is very simple.
She didn't want anybody to know what she was doing.
Not because it was nobody's business, not because of a reasonable expectation right to privacy that you might assign to yourself.
Remember, she is an official of the U.S. government.
They work for us.
Secretary of State handles diplomacy, foreign aid, relations with foreign governments, friendly and enemy.
She didn't want anybody to know what she was doing.
Now, why didn't she want anybody to know what she was doing?
What turns out that what she didn't want anybody knowing was how she and her husband were soliciting donations for their foundation, the Clinton Foundation.
That's what she was protecting.
The entire reason for that server in her basement was not for convenience, not because she didn't want to go to the trouble of logging onto the State Department server, not because she wanted more privacy.
It was to hide activity that she knew if anybody found out about, she would be in deep trouble, both politically and legally.
Because what she has been doing along with her husband is soliciting donations from foreign governments, foreign entities, foreign individuals, wealthy.
She's been selling.
What does she have to sell?
She's Secretary of State.
She has access to government policy to sell.
And that's what she's been selling.
She has been leveraging her power as Secretary of State, soliciting donations to her foundation.
But the key is this is how she and her husband have gotten wealthy.
They have solicited donations and personal payments.
That's why the server was set up to hide all of that.
And that's what has been discovered, and that's what the real FBI investigation is about.
And the FBI is on the verge of being able to indict and produce evidence to show that this is what has been happening.
A lot of people have lied to keep this thing secret, including President Obama.
We'll take a break.
Obscene profit timeout back in a sec.
Melania Trump is in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, as we speak.
She is delivering, I think her first speech since the Republican convention.
And I was just listening to a little bit of it there during our obscene profit timeout.
And you know, I understand her a lot easier than I've ever been able to understand Ariana Huffington.
Here, our microphones are there.
Let's listen to just a little snippet of this so you can see what I'm talking about.
America was the word for Freedom and opportunity.
See?
America meant, if you could dream it, you could become it.
Every word, I just every word.
When I was ten years old, we learned that a man named Ronald Trigan was elected president of the United States of America.
So there she is, Melodia Trump, as I say, she is in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, delivering a uh a speech for her husband, and it is the first I don't know if she's gonna do more of these uh, but it clearly is her first since the Republican National Convention.
One other little bit of information before we have to go to break.
Not enough time for another call here, and there's nobody up there that I see I want to be unfair with uh in terms of limited time.
So we'll get back to the phone calls after the bottom of the hour break.
Uh Brad Bear Fox News reported last night the Clinton Foundation investigation, far more expansive than anybody has reported so far, has been going on for more than a year.
Remember we heard the laptop Cheryl Mills, who's a Clinton Hillary aide.
You want to hear something really odd.
She was allowed to sit in on Hillary's official FBI interview, and they gave her limited immunity after letting her pretend to be Hillary's lawyer.
She's not a lawyer, she's an aide.
She's a staffer.
She is a lawyer, but she's never been hired by Hillary as a lawyer, but that gave her attorney client privilege.
Anyway, they seized her laptop along with one by Heather Samuelson.
And the news was that they got the evidence they wanted, limited, and then destroyed the laptops.
Agents did not destroy them.
They were livid that they were forced to destroy them and didn't.
And they have been using those laptops in gaining evidence.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
You have to say God.
Sounds better to say talent on loan from God.
God.
Step and Flushing in Queens, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh I want to tell you there's good scientific research, not consensus, but good research to show that optimism, as measured by pessim scores, is the single best predictor and single most important determinant of who wins in elections.
In fact, the most optimistic candidate, the one with lower pessim scores, won nineteen of the twenty-three presidential elections from nineteen hundred to nineteen eighty-eight, and eighty-six percent of the twenty-nine.
Wait, wait, wait, where are you reading this from?
Where you where were you reading this from?
Well, right now I'm reading it from my notes, but this is uh reported in in uh uh in journals in uh uh peer-reviewed journals and done by uh one of the foremost psychologists uh in the world.
Um I'm reluctant to give you the relic uh to give you the reference over the air because I don't want the Democrats to get it.
But Donald Trump is clearly the more optimistic candidate, and if he uses the press from rating criteria, you don't want the Democrats to get it?
That's why you're not mentioning the name of the shrinks that did this, because you don't want the Democrats to find it.
Oh, I'm sure they monitor your show.
Uh if you want me to, I'll tell you.
Everybody monitors this absolutely right.
Well sorry, no, wait, wait a second.
This fascinating, though, because you are assuming that in this campaign it's Trump who is the optimist, is that right?
Yes, clearly.
Well, now if you listen to Obama, if you listen to Hillary, they're portraying Trump as this deep, dark, dividing, dank presence that sees America as dwindling away and failing, and everybody's in bad shape.
They think they're the paragons of optimism.
Well, you know, when when these researchers did their work in nineteen eighty-eight, they made the results available to both parties.
And they may already know this, but that's why they're trying to uh uh stop it, because the more optimistic candidate, as measured by the criteria these psychologists use.
Okay, well, that look that's all fine and dandy, but I'm just telling you, I I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.
Like a lot of people would agree with you that Trump is optimistic in the sense that he is he's presenting a vision of a better America, but in the process of presenting that vision, he has to detail what's wrong with it.
So the Clintons have harped on that.
Obama say he's always focused on what's wrong with America.
And the Democrats now wait a minute now.
Hear me.
The Democrats Have always owned the pessimism.
It's just the way it's worked out.
They have always been known as the party that's that's negative and looking at everything wrong, and they have relished the opportunity in their minds in this campaign to be the uplifting optimistic party because they think Trump is just pure pessimism.
You don't see it that way, huh?
Well, he he's he's his appraisal of the current situation is more pessimistic, but optimism is future-oriented.
And for him it's very simple.
The problem is we've got stupid people running our government incompetent.
They can be replaced in a few weights in a few weeks in a few days, so this is going to be a temporary situation.
All right.
And once he comes in, and it's not just making good predictions, it's how you explain problems.
Right.
And it's it's how much ruminating you do.
And by that system, Trump is clearly the winner, but he's got to get his message out.
He's got to say what's bad and then get on to how great he can make it.
Let me run another theory by the way.
I encountered a theory today.
And tell me what you think of this.
It seems that in the last I forget the total number of world series that have gone to seven games.
Uh huh.
The National League team wins, the Democrat wins.
In every recent World Series that went to seven games, the winner of the seventh game, if it was a National League team, then the Democrat presidential candidate won.
How does that buck up against your theory on optimism?
Uh I think it's irrelevant.
Because that has not.
You know, when they made these predictions, first these psychologists went through all the uh campaigns through 84, and they made predictions based on one speech, the nomination acceptance speech that the person made, and they the the only where they only went wrong on three uh re-elections of FDR and on the uh uh Hubert Humphrey loss.
And polls to say had the uh election been three days later, he would have won.
Right.
So look at the very powerful concept, but you have to measure it by their criteria.
Okay, well, for every well, yeah, but you won't tell us who it is, because you're afraid the Democrats are gonna steal it, so we can't really assess it.
I mean, it's not that we don't like taking your word for it.
Don't don't misunderstand.
But if it's out there but we can't go look at it ourselves, then we have to keep it uh at at arm's distance.
Look, there's all kinds of theories and and formula, like Alan is it Lichman?
I can pronounce his name, Lichtmann.
He's got a formula that he claims has predicted every presidential winner in the last 30 years.
His formula is I forget what his formula is.
Because I'm confusing it with somebody else's another and he predicts Trump.
I can't remember what his formula is.
There's no question about it.
Trump wins based on the way he analyzes these things, and he's never failed.
Then there's another guy out there, and he has never failed in his in his own reporting, and he judges primary enthusiasm.
Whichever candidate had more enthusiasm and more votes in the primary ends up being elected president.
Well, there's nobody in either party that had anywhere near the enthusiasm in the primaries that Trump did.
And a close second would be Bernie.
Hillary didn't have any.
Hillary didn't have to have any.
The game was rigged.
We now know that the Democrat National Committee, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and everybody, Donna Brazil, the whole shebang, rigged the entire Democrat presidential race, the primary race for Hillary Clinton.
And it's a legitimate question to ask.
Where are Bernie Sanders supporters today?
They were openly toyed with and defrauded.
Where is Bernie?
Why is Bernie even helping her out, knowing now what happened?
And they're not denying it anywhere.
They're not denying anything that has popped out of the WikiLeaks dump.
Oh, speaking of that, I don't think WikiLeaks is through either.
I think, I'm just telling I know nothing, folks.
We had a caller at top of the hour asking me if I thought that the Hillary campaign Would unleash something on Trump Monday, November 7th.
I said, I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm waiting.
We're all waiting.
We think they've got to have something.
Hillary doesn't have much left.
I mean, she's if if Hillary is having to open her rallies with Alicia Machado, who is now a three and a half week old story.
Oh, you've even forgotten who she Alicia Machado is the former Miss Universe that that that gained a lot of weight and Trump made mention of the fact, I guess, to her when he owned the pageant.
And uh Hillary used her to try to illustrate that Trump uh hates women and is not nice to women and all that.
Uh she's out there actually introducing Hillary.
I mean, that's what Hillary has left in the tank, pulling data from yesterday that Trump is scoring big with white non-college educated women.
That goes against every theory that all the professionals had that Hillary was going to clean up with women no matter where they come from, no matter their gender, because Trump is such a reprobate.
That's not playing out.
So Hillary is reduced to bringing out Alicia Machado to once again talk about what a bad guy for women Trump is.
But that hasn't I think if they go back to that well again, if that's what they have to drop, if they've got another woman that's gonna come for that's that's gonna just drop like a lead balloon.
So I don't think it's that.
But WikiLeaks, I don't think they're through either.
And I'll even tell you what I'm waiting on with WikiLeaks.
And it's a semi-educated guess.
It's based on semi-credible things that we've run across.
And that is somebody has the 33,000 emails that Hillary claims she deleted.
You know, the emails that have to do with yoga and Chelsea's wedding reception and registry and all of that.
33,000 emails, somebody has them.
They are somewhere.
She sent them to somebody.
So I've been thinking at some point we're going to get maybe not all 33,000, but we're gonna get something significant from that trove that will come in through WikiLeaks.
And I'm thinking the Trump campaign has something in reserve too.
I think both campaigns do.
And who knows when it's gonna drop.
Something dropping Monday, trying to search my memory banks.
The advantage of dropping something Monday, if it's something big, is that whoever you're dropping, at least if Hillary's dropping on Monday, there's no time for Trump to react to it.
Uh wouldn't put it past them.
There's also well, it's a question of it would it be effective.
Uh depends on where Hillary thinks she is.
I mean, these things also can be seen as signs of desperation.
I believe that the Clinton campaign is actually close to this stuff backfiring on them.
And that's this is not who Hillary has been presented as.
And this kind of dirty trick stuff, I I think they're they're close to their limit with it on the Democrat side.
More likely if they have something, they're gonna drop it tomorrow, giving their buddies in the media all weekend to massage it, to amplify it, to focus on it on the Sunday shows.
What and they will balance that by say, Yeah, Trump will have a weekend to deal with it, but we own the media, and we can only, you know, we can deny Trump as much coverage uh as uh as we want.
So I would think if they have something it's gonna happen tomorrow.
Monday, risky extremely so.
Quick time out, my friends, another obscene profit break here at the EIB network back after this.
Nico Thousand Oaks, California, great place, love it.
How are you doing, sir?
Fine, thank you, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's an honor, sir.
Thank you.
I believe we can get the conservatives who refuse to vote for Trump to change their minds.
And I'd like to briefly explain that, but I explain it in detail on my website, Liberty Sam.com.
But the big mistake they make is by asking the wrong question, which is who shall we vote for?
Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
And it's the wrong question because we're not choosing between two candidates, but between two futures for our nation.
They know that.
They know I tell you, they Nico, I'm as frustrated.
They know that, and they still, yeah, and there is the reason these sorry for interrupting you.
The right question is whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is impeachable.
Now we know Hillary Clinton has an impenetrable bubble to cast around it.
As you a while ago mentioned, nobody wants to go down in Easter as the one who has impeached or even resisted the first black or female president.
And that paralyzed the Republicans for years, and they bank on having that paralyzed in the future.
Here's the thing, and I'm sadly running out of time here.
I think I can't prove this, but I think one of the plans the Never Trumpers have, if he wins, is to impeach him, Nico.
Remind me, you spend more time on this tomorrow.
The whole psychology of the Never Trumpers, people need to understand this.
Nobody better than me to explain it.
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