{"id":213807,"date":"2016-06-21T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/21\/democrats_and_drive_bys_are_concerned_about_the_closeness_of_this_race\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:34:36","slug":"democrats_and_drive_bys_are_concerned_about_the_closeness_of_this_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/21\/democrats_and_drive_bys_are_concerned_about_the_closeness_of_this_race\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and Drive-Bys Are Concerned About the Closeness of This Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  Hey, look, folks, I don\u2019t care how you slice it out there, there\u2019s a degree of panic and concern on the Democrat side about Trump versus Hillary.  And I have the telltale signs to back that up.  They\u2019ve got this CNN poll out there, and they\u2019re not happy about it.  Now, the Drive-Bys are trying to present it as though it is just wonderful news for Hillary, but it isn\u2019t.  When you factor everything in, it is not good news, and if you go to the right places in the Drive-By Media, you will see that certain members give it all up, give it away.  The way to look at this is, given the apparent…<\/p>\n

See, everything here is “apparent.”  Everything is being… They\u2019re judging Trump by the same old standards that you judge every other normal politician by.  You can\u2019t do that.  So they\u2019re looking at Trump and the fact that he doesn\u2019t have any money compared to Hillary.  They\u2019re looking at Trump and they don\u2019t see a campaign organization.  They look at Trump and say, “Big deal,” that he fired somebody.  “Big whoop.  People get fired in campaigns all the time, for all kinds of different reasons.”  But they\u2019re looking at all of this stuff and they\u2019re looking at, “This guy isn\u2019t even serious.”<\/p>\n

Then they go to the Republican side and they see that there\u2019s a near mutiny in there at the convention. They\u2019re still plotting ways to overthrow Trump.  Given that, Hillary ought to be up 70-30, and she\u2019s barely up above the margin of error — and, in certain areas of the CNN\/ORC poll, Trump is cleaning her clock.  This poll is not satisfying.  It is not uplifting.  It is not pleasing to the Democrats.  They\u2019re only acting like it is.  And I tell you, here\u2019s the dead giveaway.  This is a CNN headline on their own poll. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Clinton Tops Trump But Neither Prompts Excitement.”<\/a>  That\u2019s the dead giveaway that this is not going the way the Democrats thought it would go.  They have been thinking since last June… The Democrat side, now, and some of the establishment Republicans, who cannot take themselves out of the mold. They cannot get themselves outside the box and look at this in the right way.  They\u2019ve never been able to.  You can\u2019t plug Trump into the standard, ordinary, everyday procedures of party politics.  But they\u2019re trying to.  And when they do, of course Trump looks terrible, when you plug him into that playbook. <\/p>\n

But the polls are not showing that.  Now, as I say, the way they\u2019re writing the polls would make the average, ordinary low-information voter think it looks bad.  But to us seasoned veterans here, the Democrats have been thinking privately — there have been some exceptions to this. Privately, the Democrats have been thinking ever since Trump first insulted Mexicans and McCain that this is gonna be a cakewalk.  They have believed it\u2019s gonna be a cakewalk, and they\u2019ve been biding third time.  And they\u2019ve been biting their tongues. <\/p>\n

<\/a>They\u2019ve been doing everything they can to make it look like they consider Trump to be a serious opponent, but they never have thought that in the bowels of the Democrat Party advisory caucus like with Carville and with Begala and these guys. Now, Carville… Carville may have been up to speed on this from the beginning.  He may have had a proper level of concern about it. But I guarantee most of the other places they have thought this gonna be a slam dunk.  The Democrats, you know, they\u2019ve gone their own ups and downs.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got Crazy Bernie over here. Hillary couldn\u2019t close that out without monkeying with the rules and using the elites playing their power card over there.  But the way they look at this, Hillary should have been running away with this. It should be over. The polls that are up there right now should show Trump with no chance whatsoever.  It\u2019s just not the case, and they\u2019re all in a state of… I wouldn\u2019t call it “panic,” but they\u2019re concerned. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I didn\u2019t spend a lot of time yesterday on Lewandowski, folks.  I\u2019ll tell you why.  You didn\u2019t need to… There was nothing here that you weren\u2019t gonna hear anywhere else.  It\u2019s not that big a deal.  People get fired on campaigns all the time.  We told you what was important about it and that is that Trump children were the primary movers and shakers, and they\u2019re out there saying today, “Yeah, it would not be wrong to say that.”  Lewandowski\u2019s being a loyal soldier. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s still out there being loyal and talking up Trump and so forth, hoping he\u2019s gonna be hired back somewhere down the road if Trump gets elected, or maybe even later on during the campaign. But the Drive-Bys are looking for Lewandowski to start throwing dirt. It wasn\u2019t gonna happen.  Lewandowski is loyal to Trump. So just they\u2019re trying to do anything they can here to destroy Trump in June, which was another thing that apparently now we are learning happens to be in the playbook, that June is where campaigns are won or last.  Who knew! <\/line><\/p>\n

But now, all of a sudden, we\u2019re finding out that this is how Obama beat Romney. He did it in June, just like Hillary is now beating Trump in June ad buys. Romney couldn\u2019t reply, didn\u2019t have the ability to spend the money. Trump doesn\u2019t have the money, and there are other historical aspects of this being brought to bear.  But all of this is the conventional wisdom on things, and I still maintain with Trump here, you can\u2019t plug him into all of these formulas and systems that you can plug a standard, ordinary, everyday politician into.  Now, they\u2019re trying to make Trump into that.<\/p>\n

Even some on the Republican side are trying to make sure that Trump starts following the playbook rules and so forth.  But he\u2019s resisting it.  He\u2019s on the Today show today and he apologized to Elizabeth Warren for calling her Pocahontas.  He said it was an insult to Pocahontas.  So he apologized to Pocahontas<\/a>.  He apologized for calling Warren Pocahontas. He didn\u2019t apologize to Warren.  He apologized.  So he\u2019s not backing out. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want you to move up to audio sound bites seven and eight.  Dana Bash and Carol Costello of CNN.  This is CNN\u2019s New Day this morning, the first sound bite, and they\u2019re worried that Hillary Clinton… It\u2019s all about their own poll, and they\u2019re worried if Hillary can\u2019t pull away now when Trump seems disorganized and the Republicans are organizing maybe a mutiny for their own convention… If Hillary can\u2019t pull away now, what does it say about her?<\/p>\n

BASH:  Trump was just doing an interview that I was watching where he was saying just that. You know, and normally I would just say, “Okay, that\u2019s just candidate spin.”  But he\u2019s right.  I mean, he has had about the worst few weeks that you can imagine for a general election candidate for a whole host of reasons.  The fact that he\u2019s only five points down I don\u2019t necessarily think shows his strengths as much as it shows his opponent\u2019s weakness, one that Republicans don\u2019t think that he is taking advantage of enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, and they\u2019ve got a point.  Look, they\u2019ve got a point.  Trump should have been hammering Hillary on that inspectors general report. Instead of going after “the Mexican judge,” he should have been hammering her on that and there a couple other topics.  He\u2019s out there tweeting like mad today on her speech.  I think those tweets could be better.  If I were sitting next to him, his tweets would have been much better.  But I\u2019m not sitting next to him.  His tweets are okay.  You wouldn\u2019t find any Republican out there saying what he\u2019s saying, and it\u2019s a good thing that he\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n

But so many of them could have been so much more specifically targeted.  I\u2019ll show you what I mean when we get to the sound bites.  But the way CNN has headlined their own story on their own poll, “Clinton Tops Trump”? It\u2019s only five points.  That\u2019s barely outside the margin of error.  They\u2019re thinking Hillary should be running away with now just \u2019cause of how bad a week, month, whatever, Trump\u2019s had.  But their headline is, “Clinton Tops Trump, But Neither Prompts Excitement.”  Oh, they\u2019re worried.  And here\u2019s Carol Costello.  She\u2019s always a good bellwether, figure out… You know, she wears it all on her sleeve there.  As Carol Costello goes, so does pretty much goes the attitude at CNN.  And this was a sound bite from this morning.<\/line><\/p>\n

She\u2019s talking to their political editor, Mark Preston, about the CNN poll.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO:  Here\u2019s the depressing part of the poll.  This really did depress me: 56% would be embarrassed if Trump were president; 39% would be embarrassed if Clinton were elected.  That\u2019s just depressing!  Forty-six percent would be afraid if Mrs. Clinton became president — and I\u2019m only saying I\u2019m depressed because these are the two candidates that voters have to choose between.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  That\u2019s not why you mean.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO:  It says something about the America we live in now! Extremely divided.  These two candidates that are running are not very well liked. But the fact of the matter is it\u2019s what\u2019s on the table and it\u2019s what voters have to choose from when we reach November.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  It\u2019s like Rumsfeld said: “You go to war with the army you have.”  You go to the election with the candidate you have.  But I have to disagree with Carol Costello.  I don\u2019t think she\u2019s depressed because of the overall poll.  She\u2019s depressed because she loves Hillary!  All of these women babes in journalism love Hillary, and she can\u2019t get her arms around the fact that Mrs. Clinton is that unpopular.  These people think they shape opinion, make opinion, influence opinion, and the fact that 46% would be embarrassed if Hillary\u2019s elected tells these people CNN they\u2019re failing in their jobs. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re there to make Hillary look like a queen, to make her likable, to make her lovable (\u2019cause Hillary can\u2019t do that on her own), and that\u2019s why she\u2019s depressed.  She makes a point: Look I\u2019m only depressed because these are the two candidates we have to do.  She laughs at everything she says.  Thirty-nine percent would be embarrassed if Clinton were elected.  Forty-six percent be afraid if Mrs. Clinton became president.  They think that Trump had… Again, this is the standard, ordinary political belief, right out of the playbook. <\/p>\n

The week, the month that Trump has had should have finished him, and it should have sent everybody running eagerly to the Hillary camp, and it\u2019s not working out that way.  They\u2019ve wanted Hillary since 2000, and then since 2008.  And now finally — finally — Hillary has overcome all the obstacles that those mean misogynists and chauvinists put in her way, and now the public doesn\u2019t care! The public is not excited. The public doesn\u2019t… They\u2019re just let down. They just can\u2019t deal.  So that\u2019s an indication.  Those two sound bites right there are an indication of the overall mental state of the Democrat Party at large.  Don\u2019t doubt me.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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