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RUSH:  All right, now, look, there\u2019s a headline here on Fox News.  You got Hillary and Biden out there in Pennsylvania, and the headline:  “Clinton Attempts to Win Over the Working Class.”  Now, stop and think about that for a minute.  The working class has another name.  The working class is known as the little guy, and who is it that the Democrats have always been on the lookout for?  Well, the little guy. <\/p>\n

Well, who have they lost?  The Democrats seem to have lost ground with white blue-collar people.  Unionized people, they\u2019ve lost ground with them.  The union leaders donate money to the Democrats left and right, but Hillary had to pick up Bite Me and they had to head out there to Pennsylvania, Scranton and so forth to try to shore up support among working-class people. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t misunderstand me.  I\u2019m not one to grasp at straws.  It seems to me if you are in the midst of a huge landslide win over a flailing and failing Donald Trump, why do you not yet have your traditional core constituency wrapped up?  Now, I know that the Democrats made a conscious effort — this goes back to 2011.  It was in November and there was a guy, Thomas B. Edsall, used to write for the Washington Post, who became an advisor of sorts.  And he wrote how Obama was writing off the white working class as a constituency, as an electoral force. <\/p>\n

The reason was, of course, is that the white working class happened to be the primary group affected negatively by illegal immigration.  And Obama had sided with the illegal immigrants, which is exactly, by the way, what Hillary\u2019s doing.  Hillary\u2019s out there making a big pitch for the DREAMers.  She\u2019s making a big pitch to get them registered, to get them able to vote.  It\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve always told you: illegal immigration really is for the Democrats.  It\u2019s a voter registration drive.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Audio sound bite time.  I want you to hear a little bit of Mrs. Clinton today.  She and Bite Me are in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and basically what Hillary\u2019s saying America\u2019s so great, everything out there is wonderful and fine, we just need to keep doing more of this and maybe improve it a little bit, and Trump\u2019s not qualified. Trump is unfit.  Here\u2019s how it sounds…<\/p>\n

HILLARY:  The story of the Rodhams and the Bidens isn\u2019t unique.  What\u2019s unique is the country where those stories were written.  No matter what Donald Trump says, America is great and —<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (cheers)<\/p>\n

HILLARY: — and the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You know, things have gotten so reversed.  Trump is not… Trump is not saying America isn\u2019t great.  Trump is saying the exact opposite.  Trump is saying America is great and can be again, but that these people are destroying it!  This whole characterization of Trump and his speech as a dark, dank place that America is, with no hope for anybody? No, no, no, no! That\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 views.  The Democrats don\u2019t know what to do, now that they have somehow, in their minds, inherited the mantle of optimism.<\/line><\/p>\n

They really don\u2019t know how to do it \u2019cause they don\u2019t believe this. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t go out and sell the American dream. They don\u2019t sell self-reliance. They don\u2019t sell rugged individualism! They don\u2019t sell, “Pull yourself up from your boot straps!” They sell the exact opposite.  But given half the chance, look at what they do. They can\u2019t wait to appropriate that stuff, like Hillary Clinton trying to make you think that she and Joe Biden grew up on the wrong side of the tracks (laughing) and through hard work and stick-to-itiveness, they overcame all these obstacles and have reached the pinnacle. <\/p>\n

When do you hear Democrats talk that way lately?  They don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not comfortable talking that way, but they think Trump has ceded the whole notion of America in trouble to them.  They\u2019re missing that.  That\u2019s not what Trump is saying.  Trump is doing what most of the rest of us are doing, lamenting the American greatness that\u2019s being whittled away by people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.  Here\u2019s the next bite.<\/p>\n

HILLARY:  First, we\u2019re going to make the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II.<\/p>\n