{"id":273042,"date":"2018-05-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=273042"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:32:24","slug":"despite-crap-thrown-trumps-approval-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/04\/despite-crap-thrown-trumps-approval-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite All the Crap Thrown at Him, Trump\u2019s Approval Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: No, no. You heard me right. The judge in the Manafort case is targeting Mueller\u2019s team and said they\u2019re really just trying to get Trump. But he did not issue a ruling on throwing the Manafort case out. So right now, all we have is the judge pointing fingers. The judge was absolutely right on the money. CNN did a big report on it and then dropped it. The rest of the Drive-Bys started seething with rage, and then they dropped it — and now they\u2019ve all gone back to the Weather Channel. Stormy 24\/7. That\u2019s all they are.<\/p>\n

Now, during the break, I checked the email. I always do. “Rush, why do you think personal approval numbers — presidential approval numbers — matter here? If these people want to get rid of Trump, they\u2019re gonna get rid of him.” Well, no, it\u2019s not that simple, because the getting rid of Trump is gonna be impeachment. In fact, folks, the way to look at Mueller… If you really want to know, Mueller is already acting as the Democrats\u2019 impeachment lawyer.<\/p>\n

\"\"They are making the case. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on right now. That\u2019s why it\u2019s not going away. I don\u2019t… I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s a formal arrangement made between the Democrats and Mueller. I\u2019m just saying that this is what is gonna transpire. If the Democrats win the House, Mueller\u2019s investigation is going to be imported, if you will, and it will become the basis for the impeachment proceedings. That\u2019s what the Democrats are hoping and planning. And Mueller may or may not be in on it.<\/p>\n

Rich Lowry has a great piece about this at National Review today<\/a>. Rich is coming to the conclusion that this is so far out of bounds now — this is so obviously not about what it\u2019s supposed to be about — that you can\u2019t ignore it anymore. You can\u2019t miss it. You have to see honestly what is happening here. And it is way beyond the bounds of the United States Department of Justice. This is just… It\u2019s out of control. It has no basis in fact.<\/p>\n

The energy, the propulsion of this whole thing is nothing but pure, bitter, angry politics designed to overthrow or reverse the outcome of an election. But the reason why public opinion matters is because impeachment is a political matter. It\u2019s not legal. Remember Bill Clinton was impeached. That doesn\u2019t mean anything. You still have to get a conviction. For those of you who are low-information voters or Millennials and don\u2019t know how all this works, it\u2019s very simple.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment, the charges, and then they appoint managers to handle every individual charge. So you have one member of the House — in the Clinton case, I think there were 12 House managers — and they present the case to the Senate. The Senate\u2019s the jury. Lindsey Graham was a House manager. Lindsey Graham, at one time, was as conservative as you and I are.<\/p>\n

But then he became a House manager and the whole impeachment thing blew up because the Senate was not interested in it at all, and the House effort to impeach Clinton blew up. And the reason it blew up is that Bill Clinton\u2019s approval numbers remained 55 to 60 points. And I remember all during that period of time wondering, “How in the hell is this possible?” And now I look back on it, and I think I know exactly how it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

The American people didn\u2019t want any part of it back then. Even if Clinton had lied under oath and even if Clinton had been bongin\u2019 a little intern there in the Oval Office, the economy was great! The economy was flourishing! Everything was okay! They didn\u2019t want to get rid of Clinton! They weren\u2019t emotionally tied to the guy. They just didn\u2019t want things upset. And we have building similar circumstances here, only better.<\/p>\n

But impeachment failed because Clinton\u2019s approval numbers were always around 55 to 60. There was no way the Senate was gonna throw him out of office. That\u2019s why all of this matters, and that\u2019s why the original effort here, even before Mueller was hired, was to drive Trump\u2019s approval numbers down to the twenties. That\u2019s how they were again get rid of him in the first six months.<\/p>\n

When his approval number gets to the twenties, he\u2019s got no defenders on Capitol Hill. Not that he has any now, but you understand the point. With no defenders on Capitol Hill, there is no way he\u2019s gonna survive impeachment. And so to avoid that, they\u2019ll go up there and they\u2019ll say “Mr. President, you have no support left.” This is what they did to Nixon, and Nixon resigned rather than go through the whole impeachment process because Nixon said he wanted to spare the country the trauma of all of that.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I don\u2019t think we\u2019re gonna get anywhere near this with Trump because I don\u2019t think the Democrats are gonna win the House! I think the Democrats and the media are in the process of losing it right now, if they ever had it won. I don\u2019t believe this blue wave was ever real! It was always the result of phony polling data, and it was the generic ballot. So how can it be…? Let me create a scenario for you.<\/p>\n

Last December, the first generic ballot — Republican versus Democrat, what\u2019s your preference? — the Democrats won that 15 percentage points. That\u2019s when the blue wave talk started. The media and the Democrats began to feel exactly like they felt on election night 2016. They\u2019ve got a landslide coming; all they have to do is wait for it. Now, since that time in January-December when the Republicans were at a minus-15% deficit in the generic ballot, look at the news that has happened since.<\/p>\n

What has it been? All Trump all the time. All Trump creep all the time, all Trump criminal all the time, all Trump reprobate all the time, all Trump unqualified all the time. It has been never ending from the moment that… Look, that preceded it too. My point is that in a barrage, an inundation, a tsunami of nothing but negative Trump stories, the Republicans have begun to close the ballot in the generic ballot to the point now where the Democrats\u2019 lead is in the margin of error.<\/p>\n

So how can it be that all of this negative coverage on Trump — Stormy Daniels, take your pick — whatever it is… It changes every week. You know, there\u2019s a new hook every week. There\u2019s a new crisis every week. There\u2019s a new “We got him! This is it!” every week. So how can it be with all of this negative coverage — I mean, it\u2019s nothing but negative. There isn\u2019t a shred of positive coverage of Donald Trump no matter where you go in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

How in the world can Republicans be gaining ground in the generic ballot? Well, one of two things. Either they were never down 15 points or they were and the Democrats are losing ground with a combination of Republicans gaining ground. I think it\u2019s the latter. I think the Democrats… I think the media are actually inflicting great harm on the Democrats. In fact, there are more and more Democrats…<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got stories today. Adam Schiff, Pencil Neck, he\u2019s out. He\u2019s warning Democrats<\/a>, “Please, do not talk about impeachment in your upcoming campaign. Please do not mention it. It\u2019s a negative. People don\u2019t want to hear it.” If it were a positive — if the people in Democrat states and districts wanted Trump impeached and that\u2019s how you would win an election — that\u2019s what they would be talking about.<\/p>\n

Their polling data must show that when it comes to impeachment, nobody wants any part of it. It\u2019s not a winning issue. Let me put it that way. Because I can damn well guarantee you that if it were, that\u2019s all they\u2019d be talking about. But you\u2019ve got Pelosi, you\u2019ve got Schiff, you\u2019ve got any number of \u2019em trying to tell Democrat candidates, “Shut up, do not talk about impeachment. Do not talk about getting rid of Trump, do not talk about it.”<\/p>\n

Why? Because it\u2019s a negative. But the media can\u2019t stop talking about it. The media can\u2019t stop talking about anything negative with Trump. They don\u2019t have to just focus on impeachment. All they have to do is do their jobs every day and they\u2019re beginning to irritate more and more and more people.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all this, the media told us for the last two months that the iPhone X was a flop, that Apple\u2019s stock price was gonna plunge<\/a>, that Apple\u2019s big days were over and behind \u2019em. The media told us that Cohen\u2019s phones had been tapped and his calls to the White House had been overheard by federal prosecutors. The media said that Trump\u2019s tax cuts would lead to catastrophe. Trump\u2019s tax cuts wouldn\u2019t help anybody.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, the iPhone X sold record amounts of new phones. Apple sold an increased number of phones in the most recent quarter, and Warren Buffett just purchased $75 million shares of Apple, spending 200 and some odd million dollars to do it. None of what was forecast about Apple came true at all, none of it was true. And now we find out that Cohen\u2019s first were not tapped.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tax cuts are working out for people so well that his approval number is now up to 51%. The unemployment number is down to 3.9%. U.S. job growth has rebounded with that unemployment rate of 3.9%. Manufacturing jobs are increasing. Let me find the exact number on that. Black-Hispanic unemployment rates hit record lows in April, and manufacturing jobs are up 24,000 in April for a total of 304,000 since Trump took office.<\/p>\n

So on this side of the ledger we have actual improving circumstances for people and their lives. There are jobs aplenty. We haven\u2019t been in the 3% unemployment category in I don\u2019t know how long. Four percent is considered pretty much full employment statistically. There\u2019s something else that\u2019s happening that\u2019s also going to redound to Trump\u2019s benefit, and that is a new high or a rebirth of illegal immigrants succeeding in crossing the border is been reported. Trump has done everything he can to stop that. He\u2019s not getting any help.<\/p>\n

And with every news report that more and more illegals are crossing and more and more from the caravan are being granted asylum, that\u2019s only gonna help Trump. It isn\u2019t gonna hurt him. There isn\u2019t a soul out there that voted for Trump who does not think Trump is trying, does not think Trump is working hard to fix that. They know Trump\u2019s not getting any assistance on it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

So where people live, folks, where they live, where they go to work, where they spend time with their families, things are okay and improving. In the America reported on by the American Media it\u2019s a bunch of garbage people don\u2019t want any part of. They\u2019re tired of hearing about it. They don\u2019t believe it. They don\u2019t want to be immersed in it anymore. And to the extent that they are, they don\u2019t believe it. They\u2019re rejecting it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not driving Trump\u2019s approval numbers down. Trump\u2019s approval numbers are skyrocketing. The same people told us Hillary Clinton was gonna win in a landslide. The same people told us that high unemployment and a very low gross domestic product was the new normal and that Obama and the Democrats were perfectly positioned to manage the decline. The same people told us the Iran deal was fabulous. The same people told us that Donald Trump would start a nuclear war with North Korea because he was an ignorant, reckless cowboy. The same people told us it was never gonna snow in New York.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s only closer to a solution in North Korea than any American president ever has been. No American president in our lifetimes has presided over unemployment at 3.9%. No American president has brought a manufacturing sector back from the dead like Donald Trump has presided over. And his numbers are at 51% despite a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week mauling by practically the totality of the American Media.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hard to conclude that what they\u2019re trying with Trump is not working in the court of public opinion. And in the process, the media continue to make abject fools of themselves. And it is obvious. It is obvious that they\u2019re crazed. It is obvious that they\u2019re unhinged. It is obvious they are deluded. And it\u2019s, furthermore, obvious that they hate. And hate is not compelling. Well, it\u2019s compelling, but it\u2019s not infectious. It\u2019s not how you build support for whatever it is you want to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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