Nov. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 podcast. | |
| You see where Hillary said that she was humbled to vote for herself. | |
| I don't I probably regret she couldn't vote more than once. | |
| Humbled. | |
| That's what's missing in the entire ruling class of Washington D. There isn't any humility there. | |
| There is the expectation of total subservience by the people. | |
| Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome. | |
| Here we are. | |
| This is the day that everybody has been thinking about for a year and a half. | |
| I mean, in an intense way. | |
| We've been thinking about it for much longer than that. | |
| Some of us have been thinking about it since 2012 and even some since 2009. | |
| But uh terms of the recent campaign, everything that's gone on has led to this day. | |
| And after all of these months, and all of the news that we've had, and all of the polling data and all of the expert commentary by the commentariat by the punditocracy, by learned analysts, noted strategists, and respected anchors, nobody knows, Jack, about what's going to happen. | |
| Despite being told assuredly by partisans on both sides what's going to happen for the past year and a half. | |
| There isn't anybody that knows. | |
| There's fear and anticipation on both sides. | |
| I find that fascinating on a number of levels. | |
| And alternately I find it comforting and assuring, and uh you can, I'm sure if you want to find negative, you can. | |
| I'm not predisposed to that. | |
| But many people are. | |
| It's a natural state, I think, of the human condition is pessimism, and you have to fight it. | |
| Uh and and this is certainly one of those times where you where you have to. | |
| So I want to start here by by going through some of the latest polling data. | |
| Some of it's very interesting. | |
| And we'll we'll go on from there. | |
| We'll take your phone calls, of course. | |
| We've got Governor Pence. | |
| Slated to be here at about 1235, about 25 minutes or 30 minutes or so from now, depending on his schedule and uh and everything. | |
| And I I have to share this with you. | |
| I got a um I got an email from a friend this morning, and the subject line of the email was I predict that you will regret tomorrow. | |
| I predict you'll regret tomorrow not sticking your neck out this time. | |
| At least I hope so. | |
| So I said, what does this mean? | |
| What would I possibly regret? | |
| So I wrote back, uh you're regretting that I have not campaigned with Trump, not endorsed Trump, not been more vocally for Trump from the get-go. | |
| Uh I uh uh that I did not stick my neck out. | |
| What what do you think? | |
| And he thinks he thinks it's going to be such a Trump landslide that I'm gonna regret not predicting it. | |
| That's what No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| It's not about that's what I thought too. | |
| I thought he was chiding me. | |
| See, here's the thing. | |
| I have been hit from every side there is. | |
| The Never Trumpers have hit me for betraying conservatism. | |
| The blogs have hit me for betraying conservative. | |
| I am Mr. Conservative, they said. | |
| I'm the guy that got all this started, and when it was nip and tuck time, when it was crunch time, when it was pedaled the metal time, did I choose conservatism in the primaries? | |
| No. | |
| Therefore, on one level, I have betrayed conservatism, and I don't deserve to ever be listened to ever again. | |
| On the on the other side, I haven't been forceful enough for Trump. | |
| I didn't endorse Trump. | |
| I didn't give people the comfort to go out and support Trump. | |
| There are a lot of people that want a duty waiting on me. | |
| Uh I've I've heard it from virtually every angle there is. | |
| Uh every group of slash Republicans, conservatives, never Trumpers, quasi conservatives, Tea Partiers, populists, nationalists, they've all had a beef with me at some point during the election. | |
| The one thing I know, folks, the the audience levels have just skyrocketed during this period, even more so than usual during elections. | |
| It's something that uh is bankable. | |
| I mean, it's seasonal, predictable, but it's even it's it's it's through the roof even more so this time around. | |
| Um But I did what I've always done. | |
| I didn't change it. | |
| That's the thing, folks. | |
| I mean, you can call it boring if you want, but the one thing you never have to doubt is who I am and what I believe and what I tell you I believe. | |
| I have been Mr. Consistent for the entire 28 plus years I have been hosting this program. | |
| There hasn't been a single solitary, fundamental, foundational principled change in anything I state or say that I believe. | |
| Not one, while everything around me seems to be changing with the wind, changing with popular opinion, changing with seems like a lot of people used to be able to count on, now you don't know what they believe, but I have been there. | |
| Anyway, anyway, uh this one emailer thinks that we're just going to see a landslide today or tonight, and that I'm going to regret not having predicted it. | |
| That was his point. | |
| Not that I haven't supported Trump. | |
| He's he's he's no problem with with what I have done or how I've done it here. | |
| Just one more explanation on that. | |
| Folks, I have total trust in you. | |
| I have never looked at those of you in this audience as needing to be led. | |
| Sure, everybody needs to be informed, and I take great pleasure in informing you things, and I love telling you what I think. | |
| I'm very proud of what I think. | |
| I love hearing myself say what I think. | |
| And I'm very, very sure of myself when I say it. | |
| If I'm not sure myself, I won't say it. | |
| But I'm very and I think that certainty rubs a lot of people the wrong way. | |
| No, nobody's supposed to be that sure of themselves. | |
| That's it. | |
| There's too much gray. | |
| You can't possibly be that sure. | |
| It unnerves some people. | |
| Moderates and independents. | |
| But the thing I've always trusted is you. | |
| I mean, I like, for example, I had so many people, you gotta tell people to go vote. | |
| I don't need to tell any of you to go vote. | |
| How many of you out there don't know it's election day? | |
| And how many of you out there are waiting for anybody, me, anybody, tell you to go vote. | |
| None of you. | |
| Now, there may be, because of the audience expansion, and because of the the uh incredible growth that we've had, there might be some people in the audience who even now remain unsure. | |
| They're gonna go vote, but they don't yet know who, and they've got some problems with both candidates, and they don't know how to resolve them. | |
| I will be addressing that uh before the before the program ends today. | |
| I don't think this is complicated at all, even stripping away my preferences and bias. | |
| I don't think this is complicated. | |
| For example, I do not understand, and nobody's gonna ever be able to make me understand how a Republican could vote for Hillary Clinton. | |
| I just am never going to understand that. | |
| Nobody can make me understand it, and nobody can make me accept it. | |
| Particularly Republicans that have been around and paying attention for the last 25 or 30 years, there is no way, and a lot of them are. | |
| I don't know a lot. | |
| A significant number of uh publicly known Republicans are going to either not vote or they are going to vote for Hillary. | |
| They're going to do something that is essentially a vote for her, and that I don't understand. | |
| I can understand some people who might have problems with Trump, but I do not understand at all any admitted Republican or conservative who will vote for Hillary Clinton. | |
| That just doesn't compute and make any sense. | |
| And I will explain why, as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. | |
| One other little note of comparison, people are people are uh trying to get their arms around this enthusiasm for Trump, size of his rallies and so forth. | |
| I've even heard some people comparing it to Obama in 2008. | |
| There's a stark difference, folks. | |
| I believe, and I think this is a seminal point. | |
| The crowds that Obama was drawing, you know, he goes to Germany, wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate as a citizen of the world in 2008. | |
| Wherever Obama went, there were huge crowds. | |
| Back in 2008, I really think the crowds were There for Obama and not a movement. | |
| Because Obama didn't represent a movement. | |
| Obama represented the fact that he was not George Bush. | |
| The media and the Democrats had successfully ginned up so much hatred for George Bush and the Republicans that all Obama had to be was different. | |
| All he had to do was represent change. | |
| Obama, in fact, was an empty canvas, if you recall. | |
| People could make Obama whatever they wanted him to be. | |
| He could be post-racial, he could be post-partisan, he could be whatever people want, first African American. | |
| Whatever you wanted Obama to be, you could make it because Obama was not running on a specific agenda. | |
| He certainly wasn't running on the agenda that he has implemented. | |
| Look at what we have learned in this campaign. | |
| We have we have learned that the recently released premiums for health insurance for Obamacare prove that Obamacare is nothing like what we were promised it would be. | |
| It doesn't bear any resemblance to what we were promised Obamacare would be. | |
| Here's a story: a guy took out a second mortgage on his home to pay his Obamacare health insurance premium. | |
| The Democrats did not get one Republican vote for this. | |
| There was no bipartisanship. | |
| There was no consensus. | |
| This thing was rammed through using parliamentary tricks, delays, budgetary tricks, and all kinds of things to make it happen, and lies, such as if you like your doctor, keep your doctor, if you like your plan, keep your plan, your premium's going to come down on average $2,500 a year. | |
| None. | |
| Absolutely none of that was true. | |
| If Barack Obama had campaigned, honestly about what was to become of the American health care system, he would not have been elected. | |
| If Obama had campaigned on what his economic plans would result in, he would not have been elected. | |
| If people had known what was to become of our health care system, if people were to know that 94 million Americans were not going to be working, if people would know that the borders are going to remain open for all kinds of ill-educated, unskilled, unenglish language speaking people to storm the gates. | |
| If people had known that that was the policy of the Democrat Party, they would not have been elected. | |
| Barack Obama would not have been. | |
| Yet he was drawing huge crowds. | |
| He was drawing huge crowds because he represented or was an exciting celebrity slash personality. | |
| Trump, on the other hand, people saying the same thing about Trump. | |
| I think Trump's crowds are about things besides Donald Trump. | |
| I don't think, for example, if Trump loses, that the people who supported him are going to go away. | |
| I don't think the issues driving those people are going to go away. | |
| I don't think the Republican Party is just going to be able to pick up where it left off before Trump got the nomination and resume its practices as though nothing has happened here. | |
| Those people who came out or who are going to come out and vote for Trump and attend his rallies are there because of substantive issues that his candidacy represents. | |
| That's not like it was in 2008 with people supporting Obama. | |
| He was not Bush, he was whatever you wanted him to be. | |
| He was not the Iraq war. | |
| He was not torture, he was not Abu Grab, he was not club, whatever the left and the media had succeeded in making the American people hate Obama was not, but he did not campaign on anything other than platitudes. | |
| Lowering the sea levels, having the United States loved and respected around the world, ending all wars, free health care for everybody. | |
| None of it happened. | |
| We are not more loved and respected. | |
| We are more disrespected and laughed at nations around the world, and we are a great nation at greater risk than ever before in the world today. | |
| We are in more wars than Obama could count when he assumed office in 2008. | |
| You get to Mrs. Clinton, and look at what we have learned about her. | |
| What we have confirmed that we thought we knew about her. | |
| A serial, untruthful Liar, a person who is driven solely by ambition. | |
| She and her husband's primary objective in remaining in public life after his presidency was to get personally wealthy, to get personally rich, which they've done operating a charity. | |
| We have learned about things that we all suspected regarding the collusion between the Democrat Party and our mainstream media. | |
| We now know that everything we suspected and more is true. | |
| We've learned a heck of a lot, and there's no going back. | |
| Because the things that have propelled people to support Donald Trump and overlook whatever many people think are his weaknesses and problems, the things that are propelling people are substantive issue-oriented items that relate directly to the kind of country we are going to have, the kind of people and country we are going to be. | |
| And that movement, whatever you want to call it, populism, nationalism, conservatism, light, whatever it is, isn't going anywhere. | |
| I'm unable to tell you how it will manifest itself going forward. | |
| It's going to be fascinating to watch the Republican Party deal with this. | |
| Because the Republican Party, folks, is going to have major problems whether Trump wins or loses. | |
| Would you like to hear what those are going to be? | |
| Thank you. | |
| Okay, make a note. | |
| Because during the portion of the during the program today, I will attempt to explain what those problems are going to be either way. | |
| So let's, as I said, get started with some polling data here. | |
| And one of the most glaring pieces of polling information that hit me today is this. | |
| I found it in the Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard, the Pulse Opinion Research Survey. | |
| Most Hispanics in America back deportation and want immigration cut in half. | |
| They want illegal immigration stopped. | |
| Hispanics, 51% of Hispanics. | |
| Now stop and think if this poll happens to be accurate, and we must offer that caveat about every poll, because nobody knows. | |
| What if this poll is accurate? | |
| The drive-by's, the mainstream media are just happily telling us as much as we can stand to hear it, that the late breaking, early voting Hispanic population, is showing up in droves. | |
| And they are telling us that that means it's a huge win for Hillary Clinton in that demographic. | |
| Now we don't know other than party affiliation how early voters are voting. | |
| That's the only thing we've got to go on. | |
| We don't open the ballots, we don't count them yet, so we don't know who early voters vote for other than to look at their party affiliation. | |
| The assumption is that Hispanics, by a vast percentage vote Democrat, and early voting, we are also told represents enthusiastic Democrats. | |
| They just can't wait to get out there and vote for Hillary. | |
| So you put those two things together, and we're being told that the early voting, late breaking vast numbers of Hispanic early voters means that it is a Hillary Clinton slammed up. | |
| What? | |
| And ever since this began, my question has been, well, who is to say that they're all for Hillary? | |
| Where did this get started? | |
| I know where it got started. | |
| Democrat Party and media, one of these bits of conventional wisdom. | |
| But it's not true that 100% of any group is for one candidate, one agenda, one party. | |
| So how many, what if this poll is true? | |
| What if what if half the Hispanics voting in early voting are voting for Donald Trump? | |
| Well, that just that that screws up every projection that the pollsters and the Democrats are making. | |
| I've taken a quick break here, folks, but we'll be right back. | |
| Now, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned that uh there were some people that were going to release exit poll data all during the day today. | |
| Release it, announce it. | |
| There are generally two waves released by the exit polling firm, which is uh one firm hired by all the networks, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. | |
| We heard yesterday that some of this data is going to be purposely reported during the day, and apparently we've got the first such report from the uh Monmouth or the morning consult polling unit from their website. | |
| Voters heading to the polls today are twice as likely to say they want a president who is a strong leader than they said in 2012. | |
| This according to Monmouth Mon uh morning consult slash politico exit polling data. | |
| Twice as likely this election as 2012 to say they want a president who is a strong leader. | |
| More than one third, 36% of 2016 voters said being a strong leader, the most important quality when picking a president. | |
| Well, who is that? | |
| When you if you think of Hillary and Trump, and you hear that people say they want a strong leader, who who does that mean that they are voting for? | |
| Who who would you say that that I'm just asking, folks. | |
| I'm just I'm just asking, answer yourself there. | |
| Hi, welcome back. | |
| Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day. | |
| I just want to be out front with you. | |
| Folks, I'm being deluged right now with information about turnout voting lines, all kinds of things all over the country. | |
| I'm not going to get into it. | |
| We have been there done that. | |
| Hold that thought. | |
| This is an important thought. | |
| I want to get back to it, but we have Governor Mike Pence on the phone, the vice presidential candidate. | |
| Governor Pence, here you are. | |
| You're back again. | |
| This is it. | |
| This is a big day. | |
| What do you have planned? | |
| What's in store? | |
| What are you doing today? | |
| Rush, we're actually loading up uh here in in Indianapolis, getting ready to get on the plane and head to New York City, where I'm looking forward to standing tonight with a man that I I hope and believe will be the next president of the United States of America, Donald Trump. | |
| It would be profound. | |
| It would be you you joined the ticket back in uh in the summer, and you have been working every day tirelessly for this. | |
| Tonight is it. | |
| No campaign stops today, is that right? | |
| Uh that's right, Rush. | |
| We uh uh we finished last night. | |
| We got we got back home, all of us a little bit around three, I think about three in the morning. | |
| You you wouldn't have believed a rally. | |
| We actually welcomed election day after midnight in Michigan, the the fifth rally that Donald Trump had done that day. | |
| We met up together in New Hampshire, flew to Michigan. | |
| The the crowd, the enthusiasm was extraordinary. | |
| And we we rang in election day with with with uh with uh with thousands of Americans who know we can make America great again. | |
| I I think to to come to this day, obviously for me, for my little family is just deeply humbling. | |
| My my grandfather immigrated to this country from Ireland when he was about my son's age. | |
| My mom and dad build a small gas station business. | |
| I have to tell you, walking over to the little church near the governor's residence today and and uh casting a vote uh to be on the ballot with Donald Trump um is just it's a deeply moving experience for me for my family. | |
| But I think the the connection that he has made to millions of Americans who know that we can be stronger at home and abroad, who know that that this economy hold that thought can be more prosperous. | |
| Governor, let me interrupt you here because uh something new is happening this year. | |
| The exit poll data is being reported by the polling agencies. | |
| It's not it's not filtering out in ways that might make it dubious. | |
| For example, uh from Morning Consult Politico has released already what you were just talking about, exit poll data that says this. | |
| Voters heading to the polls today, voters leaving the polls who have voted today, say they are twice as likely this year as opposed to 2012 to vote for a president who, quote, is a strong leader, more than one-third, thirty-six percent of voters this election in exit polls, instead being a strong leader, was the most important quality when picking a president. | |
| Uh compared with 18% who said that back in 2012. | |
| What what does that mean to you? | |
| Well, I think it it you know it means that the the last seven and a half years have weakened America's place in the world, stifled America's economy, and the American people know it. | |
| Um and that they long to have America standing tall in the world again. | |
| They long to see a president who will rebuild our military, revive our economy through not not through more government, more taxes, more Obamacare, but but as Donald Trump plans to do should we're serving of of cutting taxes, rolling back regulations, repealing and replacing Obamacare and having the kind of trade deals that'll put American jobs first. | |
| And but I I I would just tell you that you know at this hour, it's this is now in the hands of the American people. | |
| You know, it seems like the you know, all of the all the pundits and the editorial writers and you know the political class have been having their say for the last year and a half. | |
| This is now in the hands of the American people, and I just I just couldn't miss the opportunity rush uh to reach out to your tens of millions of listeners and just say now is the time to step forward and exercise that franchise, that right to vote that's been passed on generations of Americans at great sacrifice, | |
| and to all those in the sound of my voice who share our values who who know that we can we can have a stronger America at home and abroad, a more prosperous America, uh the that we can revive America the way that Ronald Reagan did in the nineteen eighties, and that we can have justices to the Supreme Court who honor and uphold our Constitution, uh that uh that now is the time to come out uh to take the time to cast that vote and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States. | |
| Let me ask you to make a pitch to the uh the type of voter that we know is out there. | |
| There are people that haven't voted. | |
| They know it's election day, they don't know what to do, they're not particularly enamored of anybody running. | |
| I don't think the people listening to this program need to be told to vote. | |
| I told them that at the beginning of the program. | |
| I think that that's something that they've been chomping in the bit to do. | |
| In fact, Governor, isn't it interesting? | |
| You just you talked about a year and a half. | |
| A year and a half ago when this campaign began, here we are today, and the experts pundits commentary it they can't tell us what's going to happen after a year and a half of trying to shape public opinion, after a year and a half of trying to get the result they wanted, they today cannot tell us what's going to happen. | |
| I find that refreshing, encouraging, and fascinating at the same time. | |
| But the question what would you say to the voter who doesn't want anything to do with Hillary Clinton because of what's known, but has some problems with Mr. Trump as well. | |
| Uh and so they just and they're having trouble reconciling voting at all. | |
| When you if you if you had a chance to talk to a voter who said to you, Governor Pence, I don't like Mrs. Clinton, but I've really got some problems with with Donald Trump too. | |
| What would you tell them? | |
| Well, I I would tell them that I've I've seen Donald Trump uh when the Kleaglights are off for us, just like you have. | |
| I've seen him off the campaign trail. | |
| And I I truly do believe that he has the leadership qualities and the vision to make America great again. | |
| But the other thing I would say is, you know, at the end of the day, before the polls close today, the peop people of this country are not just gonna choose between two candidates. | |
| This is this is a choice between two futures. | |
| And in a very real sense. | |
| I I think it's a bit like Ronald Reagan said so many years ago. | |
| This isn't this isn't even a choice between liberal and conservative, between Republican and Democrat. | |
| This this is, as Reagan said, a choice between up and down. | |
| Whether we're gonna continue to go down the same hill we've been going down to a weaker America at home and abroad, a more stifled American economy under the weight of higher taxes, more regulation, more Obamacare, more bad trade deals, walking farther away from our most cherished constitutional ideals and principles. | |
| That we're gonna stop, plant our feet, turn around and march back up the hill to a stronger America at home and abroad to rebuild our military, to revive our economy through tax relief and economic freedom, and uh and to have appointments to our core our highest court and all the courts of this country that will strictly construe the Constitution of the United States. | |
| That's the choice before us. | |
| And and for those who cherish the values that you celebrated for decades on the airways of America, the choice could not be more clear that that for the change that we want for a stronger, more prosperous America grounded in our highest ideals, uh the clear choice is to make Donald Trump the forty-fifth president of the United States. | |
| Well, uh you have you have magnificently made that message clear to people. | |
| You've delivered it well out there as in your in your role here as the vice president of the nominee. | |
| The thing that strikes strikes me about this um people who are expressing dissatisfaction unhappiness, let's say with the direction of the country in general. | |
| And they're those people are their legion. | |
| I mean they're millions and millions of Americans who know that whatever is happening today, this it just doesn't feel right. | |
| This is this is not the America we dreamed of when we were kids, thought we would grow up to this is not how things seem to operate. | |
| The one thing that that I tell people is that if that's your view, Donald Trump and Mike Pence don't have any fingerprints on any of this. | |
| Everything that is causing people to be unnerved or uneasy or or frightened about the future that's all been done by people who are on the Democrat side seeking reelection in Mrs. Clinton's case seeking election but as far as Mr. Trump is concerned and you have nothing to do with Obamacare. | |
| You have nothing to do with the stimulus that that that stifled the economy. | |
| You have nothing to do with ninety four million Americans not working. | |
| And I think that's a telling point. | |
| I think it's uh it it's something that people need to factor if they find themselves undecided here in what to do. | |
| Well I I think that's that's that's as usual extremely well said seven out of ten Americans know that country's headed in the wrong direction that that in in a very real sense um uh that that this is a this is a clear choice between change in the status quo and I always been telling crowds that the other side says if you like your status quo you can keep it then they'll keep that promise rush but the truth is for real change. | |
| I mean and as you said when I was in the Congress I fought against Obamacare. | |
| I fought against the so-called stimulus bill. | |
| I fought against all these policies of borrowing and spending and bailouts. | |
| And I'll tell you what, Donald Trump's vision to this country parallels greatly with the vision that Ronald Reagan used and implemented to revive America during a very, very similar time where we had a president who told us that we were in a time of malaise in the American economy and that things are just going to be that way for a while. | |
| Reagan steps up in that great first inaugural address. | |
| says and why shouldn't we dream great dreams after all we're Americans and the and the American people came roaring back the American economy came back and and I truly do believe that Donald Trump that Donald Trump is a different time. | |
| They're different men but I I believe that Donald Trump has the leadership qualities and he has the vision to make America great again and I I couldn't be more honored to be standing with him and couldn't be more grateful for the millions of people across this country who are stepping forward today to cast their vote to make Donald Trump the next president of the United States. | |
| Well it's it's rarefied air that you have been breathing uh not too many people get to do what you have been doing since this summer. | |
| It's not too many people to run for president not very many people get nominated not very many people are chosen to be vice president it's uh as you said it's it's uh it it's a sobering reality to to reflect on what's happened to you and that's that's a great thing about you. | |
| You take nothing for granted and you're very appreciative of everything that's come your way and I know you want to share that with the country. | |
| You you want the country to the people this country to to benefit from it the same way you have well that that's right Rush we're we're deeply humbled. | |
| We're we're grateful to we're grateful to God we're we're we're grateful to the confidence that Donald Trump and his family have placed in our little family we're we're grateful to the American people whose support and prayers have carried both of our families forward. | |
| But as I said, as we head to the airport to wing our way to New York City to see what the future holds, this is in the hands of the American people. | |
| And anyone within the sound of my voice this morning who has not yet voted, I would just encourage you, if you want real change, if you want a stronger America at home and a broad America that self-perishes our highest ideals, head out the door right now and go to a big place and cast your vote. | |
| Trump is the next president of the United States. | |
| States and we will make America great again. | |
| Thank you, Governor Pence I appreciate the call and all always appreciate the time and best of luck I know it's it's going to be nail biting time all day long today and it's uh uh I mean we're all that way it's got to be double for you. | |
| So hope it's a great day for you. | |
| I hope you have a wonderful time today and tonight and we'll look forward to seeing more of you later. | |
| Thank you, Russ. | |
| Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, on his way out to vote or no, he did vote that he's on his way to New York uh to join up with Trump at the Trump Tower and for an eventual uh TV appearance tonight. | |
| We have to take a quick break. | |
| I want to get back when we get back here, this um exit polling data that we've got here from the morning consult. | |
| I think we're going to be getting all kinds of things like this during the day. | |
| What I was starting to say here uh at the time Governor Pence called, folks, I am being deluged with things. | |
| And some of it I can attest to, a lot of it is just people who are saying things and telling them to others and others are telling me. | |
| And I don't I don't want to start going down the road. | |
| Hey, I just heard this report out of uh out of out of North Carolina. | |
| Just got this from advantage. | |
| It's uh impossible to confirm it all. | |
| Uh the stuff that I think is is worthwhile and legit that I wouldn't have any regret passing on. | |
| I'll do that. | |
| But it's already started, and I'm just gonna do my best to filter it. | |
| But I do want to get back to this morning consult political exit poll release on a strong leader as one of the primary things voters today saying they want, and how this is being portrayed on the morning consult Twitter page. | |
| It's interesting. | |
| Back in just a second. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| So I checked the email. | |
| You can't do Dash. | |
| You you you can't do that to us. | |
| You can't tell us you're getting all this stuff and then tell us you're not gonna tell us what it is. | |
| I knew that was gonna happen. | |
| All right, I'll share with you some of what I've got that I think is pretty solid, but I want to point you to the Drudge page right now. | |
| Drudge has linked to the morning consult political exit poll data on strong leader. | |
| You need to look at the picture he has posted above that link. | |
| Exit poll wants strong leader. | |
| Take a look at the picture Drudge has posted above that link. | |
| It's Hillary being hobbled, walking up steps to a stage needing assistance. | |
| Well done. | |
| On the Twitter page, I think this is at uh where is it now? | |
| Uh the morning consult. | |
| Uh I I think they must see this as bad news for Hillary because they're hyping that article on Twitter by saying exit poll, voters are anxious, angry, and just want the 2016 election to be over. | |
| When you click on that link, you're taken to the article with the headline, Voters Want a Strong Leader more than anything else, exit poll shows. | |
| So, morning consult politico have released an exit poll that shows the number of people who want a strong leader is double the number of people voted that way in 2012. | |
| They hype that with a headline on Twitter that that says uh voters are anxious, angry, and just want the 2016 election to be over. | |
| If all of this showed good news for Hillary, that wouldn't be the way they headline the link. | |
| The link is exit polls says voters want strong leader. | |
| Look, another caveat here. | |
| This is, you know, morning consultant politico are official. | |
| Remember what happened with exit polls in 2004 with John Kerry. | |
| They were bogus. | |
| And one of the reasons I'm reluctant to get into all of this is that even with the best fact-checking and even with the best assignation of credibility to people, you can still get hammered here. | |
| But I'll just here here's some of the other things that I have uh got so far. | |
| Pinellas County, Florida, where there are slightly more Democrats than Republicans. | |
| Republicans are ahead in voting by 8,000. | |
| This is unofficial voter turnout, but in in slightly Democrat County, Pinellas County, Florida, Republicans are up by 8,000, just in terms of number of votes. | |
| In North Carolina early voting, voting by ages 22 to 29 dropped by a whopping 66% from 2012. | |
| That means the millennials in North Carolina are not showing up dot dot dot for Hillary. | |
| It just means they're not showing up. | |
| And at 2012, Romney barely won North Carolina. | |
| Uh by election day Trump's 142,000 votes ahead of where Romney was in North Carolina, and Romney won the state. | |
| Frank Luntz is out on Twitter saying, watch Michigan working class turnouts looking much higher than expected. | |
| Trump may actually have a chance in uh in Michigan. | |
| So that's the sum total of what I've got now that I'm not worried about passing on to you. | |
| We'll be back here in just a second. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| We have to take an obscene profit break here at the top of the hour, my friends. | |
| Our local affiliates to do some local news, whatever else uh they want to convey. |
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