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Number two. Trump, in the Republican primaries, got more votes in the Republican primary than Mitt Romney ever did, and Romney was not running against nearly as many opponents as Trump was. There aren\u2019t that many open primaries in the Republican primary season, meaning he couldn\u2019t have gotten significantly more votes from Democrats than Romney got because there aren\u2019t that many open primaries for that to happen. <\/p>\n
Remember all of the new voter registration numbers we were hearing. That Republicans were registering in droves during the primaries and that Trump got more votes — do you remember this? — Trump got more votes in the Republican primary than anybody ever has. What happened to them? What in the world happened to them? If that\u2019s all true, where did they go, where are they going? Are we to believe that they weren\u2019t all legitimate, that it was another sting operation run by the Democrats? It was a bunch of Democrats registering and voting Trump just to fool everybody. Who knows. I mean, people will conjure up all kinds of theories to explain things that they can\u2019t. <\/p>\n
We\u2019re living in the moment, of course, and so it takes an effort to go back and remember what things were like during the primaries. During the primaries Trump didn\u2019t have any serious opposition, and that frustrated a lot of people. Remember, the traditional ways of winning the Republican nomination, none of \u2019em worked. Jeb Bush had $115 million, got six delegates. Jeb Bush had the full support of every powerful entity in the Republican establishment. He got six delegates. <\/p>\n
According to Real Clear Politics, Trump received about 13.3 million votes during the primary. That\u2019s 1.8 million votes more than the previous record held by George W. Bush. And yet it is believed — and this is not to castigate the prior caller. I\u2019m sure a lot of people probably agree with him. Even though Trump gets this record number of votes, he somehow doesn\u2019t have the support of the Republican base. <\/p>\n Well, then who are those voters? Where\u2019d they come from? If they\u2019re not the Republican base — and I will admit to you, I even reminded people back then, a lot of Trump\u2019s support was not quasi-so-called conservative. There are many Americans fed up with the Democrat Party, fed up with the establishment, who are not specifically ideologically ordained conservatives or movement conservatives. They may live their lives that way, but they don\u2019t call themselves that, and they don\u2019t think in those terms. They think of themselves as Republicans or outsiders or people fed up with the system or however you want to describe it. <\/p>\n And remember this, too. During the Republican primaries there were endless polls that said Trump was declining. There were polls during the various stages of the primary maintaining the premise that Trump was losing support. And then there would be a primary election and Trump would win in a blowout. And people said, “But the polls said –” I\u2019m not trying to construct a scenario for the polls being wrong. Don\u2019t misunderstand me. I\u2019m just trying to remind people of some history. <\/p>\n And we are to believe — and many people do — that the reason so many people are abandoning Trump is because they are embarrassed over the tape from Access Hollywood, and they are embarrassed over the way Trump went after Miss Universe, and they are embarrassed over the way Trump talks about women, and they\u2019re embarrassed this, embarrassed that, and so all the reasons that Trump was generating record registration, record support, record Republican turnout during the primaries, is all gone or is vanishing.<\/p>\n Traditional politics is surfacing once again, and the American voters are voting and making decisions and answering poll questions as they always have. And they are universally now, in what appears to be landslide numbers, maturing and they\u2019re growing and they\u2019re realizing the error of their ways in supporting Trump way back when and they\u2019re now prepared to sign on with Mrs. Clinton, sign on with the establishment because they have come to grips with the fantasy that they were living. <\/p>\n It\u2019s much the same way they try to change minds on climate change. They\u2019re out there promoting the issue, and they are humiliating people that don\u2019t buy it and don\u2019t believe it, but they\u2019re always offering a chance for absolution. If you finally admit that you have contributed to this problem, there is salvation for you. You have been doing things to destroy the planet. You have been doing things to destroy the climate, but you can make amends. <\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TrumpNEVER-HILLARY.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>Same thing here. You have been on the verge of destroying the American financial system. You\u2019re on the verge of destroying the American political system with your support for this maniac Trump. But, people are realizing that Trump is exactly what the media says he is, and people are now siding with and agreeing with the media in droves and abandoning Trump. That\u2019s what they\u2019re asking us to believe is happening. Who knows! <\/p>\n