{"id":273067,"date":"2018-05-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=273067"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:32:12","slug":"blue-wave-narrative-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/04\/blue-wave-narrative-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Wave Narrative Is an Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ben Shapiro at The Daily Wire: “Red wave? Poll Shows Republicans Could Pick Up 9 Senate Seats<\/a>.” Wait, what, what? Wait, what about the blue wave? The blue wave, Republicans are gonna lose the House and Democrats are gonna take the House, Democrats gonna do impeachment, they\u2019re gonna get rid of Trump. Wait a minute. What is this?<\/p>\n

“According to new Morning Consult polls, Democrats are in serious trouble in Senate races across the country. Republicans have serious leads in West Virginia, where incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin trails by 14 points; North Dakota, where incumbent Democrat Heidi Heitkamp trails by eight; Indiana, where incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly trails by five; Missouri, where incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill trails by five.” And there is polling data out of Missouri that essentially says Missourians think she\u2019s old news, it\u2019s time for a change.<\/p>\n

\"\"In fact, in San Francisco, a local CBS affiliate, a TV station, made mention of the fact that Nancy Pelosi is less popular than, I think was it Trump — nah, it\u2019s not Trump. I forget who. But the point is that Pelosi is not even ruling the roost in her own home district in San Francisco. And yet we hear about this blue wave that\u2019s coming. And the only evidence of that is, of course, polling data from back in December and January.<\/p>\n

In Montana, Jon Tester trails by five. By the way, there\u2019s news on that. There\u2019s a position for Mike Pence. Name is Pena. I forget her first name. What\u2019s her name? Name is Jennifer Pena. She\u2019s apparently the one that dropped the dime on Ronny Jackson, and she did it by going directly to the Senate, which means Jon Tester. So she goes over there and she tells Tester all this horrible stuff about Ronny Jackson. Tester runs with it, of course.<\/p>\n

It turns out to have been untrue! Pence\u2019s official doctor dropped the dime on Trump\u2019s! Well, she has resigned. Gee whiz. “VP Physician Who Targeted Ronny Jackson Resigns<\/a>.” Now the Morning Consult poll: Republicans could pick up nine Senate seats. Now, I have to weigh in on this.<\/p>\n

Forget the blue wave stuff. Let\u2019s go back to shortly after the 2016 election, shortly after Trump won, when Washington was turned upside down. Nobody could believe what just happened. And even at that early stage, people began looking at the midterms, House and Senate. And back then, it was a foregone conclusion. You remember James Carville running around talking about how the Democrats had never had less power since the 1920s? That the Democrats were now in the wilderness, that there was no way the Democrats were ever gonna be able to come back? Carville was so down in the dumps, whether he looked up he saw the gutter.<\/p>\n

And back then, the story was how the Democrats had so many seats to defend in 2018, something like — I forget the exact number — 18 to 20 Democrats were up for reelection, and many of them in states where Trump had done very well. And so the early conventional wisdom was that the Democrats were headed for even more trouble. The Republicans only have to defend nine seats in the Senate in the midterms. The Democrats, 18 or 20, something like that.<\/p>\n

Well, this story from Morning Consult is doing nothing more than confirming what was conventional wisdom after the election. It shows that Republicans could pick up nine seats, which is about what people were saying in December of 2016, January of 2017. So what has happened in the ensuing year and a half hasn\u2019t changed this at all. We just think it has. We think that there\u2019s a big blue wave. We think the Democrats are gonna sweep everything, because Trump is hated.<\/p>\n

Well, Trump isn\u2019t hated! People in America living and working where Trump is having an impact are doing quite well. Even Apple announced one of the largest share buybacks in American corporate history, and they\u2019re going to use the money from the Trump tax cut to do it! A share buyback is simply giving money to shareholders. They are returning money to shareholders. The people that own Apple stock are making out like bandits.<\/p>\n

All because of Trump\u2019s tax cuts. People are experiencing more disposable income. They have bonuses. As such, the unemployment number, 3.9%, Trump\u2019s approval number, 51%, manufacturing jobs are way up. None of this makes any sense if you measure it against what you see in the Drive-By Media every day. Trump ought to be hated and despised. If you pay attention to the media and you believe what you see there, why, you would think Trump\u2019s on the verge of being thrown out of office tomorrow. That\u2019s how hated he is. That\u2019s how opposed he is. That\u2019s how much people regret voting for him.<\/p>\n

\"\"And yet the reality is the Democrats, as of now — and you know what I think about these early polls, but we\u2019re gonna use it since they do. Democrats are losing in nine seats in the Senate where Republicans could pick up gains. Republicans gain nine seats? Now, we don\u2019t know how many they\u2019re gonna lose. But they\u2019ve got far fewer to defend. The point is there isn\u2019t any blue wave happening here! And the blue wave that was said to happen in the House, it looks like, if it ever was real, that it is evaporating at the same time.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this story from Matthew Continetti at the Free Beacon. “The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party<\/a> — The Democratic message has been reduced to Russia and Stormy Daniels.” The Democrats have not had a message since the election. They didn\u2019t have a message during the election. Their message during the election was that Trump is unfit and that Hillary is the greatest candidate for president there\u2019s ever been or that Hillary is entitled or that Hillary\u2019s owed or Hillary is due.<\/p>\n

The Democrats haven\u2019t had a message. Obama\u2019s economic message was, “Hey, the best days are behind us. Get used to the decline. America has no exceptionalism about it. America never was that great.” That was the American message during Obama. Is it any wonder the Democrats were sent packing? What has happened to rebound for the Democrats? What\u2019s happened to make them look good to people?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happened in the last year and a half to make people think the Democrats are where we would rather be, rather have leading the country? It doesn\u2019t make any sense! It makes literally no sense at all. Yet the narratives and the forecasts of the Drive-By Media are just that, that the American people regret, the American people have buyer\u2019s remorse, the American people desperately want the Democrats back, Hillary or Bernie, it doesn\u2019t matter, Elizabeth Warren, but they want the Democrats back. Well, there\u2019s no evidence of that. It\u2019s one gigantic illusion, one gigantic lie after lie after lie, indirect and direct.<\/p>\n

Back to the phones. Greg, Atlanta. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking the call. You were talking last hour about how Lindsey Graham and company 20 years ago or more pursued the impeachment of President Clinton, and yet the Senate wasn\u2019t invested, the American people weren\u2019t invested as evidenced by President Clinton\u2019s approval rating. And it was ultimately proven in the \u201998 midterms when the Republicans lost enough seats sufficient that Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, felt compelled to resign at that point. I started to get excited when you were talking about that because it sounds like we\u2019re looking at the exact same kind of circumstances possibly shaping up for the midterm this year, where the global left is going after Trump and yet his popularity is increasing. Is it possible that we could really be surprised, pleasantly surprised this November?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the way to answer is that I would not be surprised if we\u2019re surprised. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. I will not be, but some people will be, and I won\u2019t be surprised if they are. Look, don\u2019t forget this. The latest of the Democrats begging candidates to stop talking about impeachment is no less than Pencil Neck<\/a>. Adam Schiff, the Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is out desperately today begging Democrats to shut up about impeachment.<\/p>\n

Now, ask yourself… He\u2019s not alone. Pelosi has said the same thing, and they\u2019ve both asked Maxine Waters, “Would you please stop talking about it.” Why? I mean, look, if the country hates Trump, and if the country realizes it made a mistake in electing Trump, and if they wish they could do it over again, and if they\u2019ve got buyer\u2019s remorse — and if Trump is despised and hated, as you would think by listening and watching the media — then in the world would talking about getting rid of him hurt?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t they want this front and center? If they have all of a sudden become so popular with the American people — if the Democrats are all of a sudden loved and adored and respected and desired again after a year and a half of this guy — then why aren\u2019t the Democrats pushing it? Well, the answer is obvious. Schiff and Pelosi and the rest of these people know full well that basing a campaign around the premise of getting rid of a duly elected president because they don\u2019t like him is a death wish.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not gonna do it if they win. It just means they know they won\u2019t win if that is the reason they tell people to vote for them. And if that won\u2019t work in getting votes, then what does it ultimately actually mean? It means there isn\u2019t public sentiment for getting rid of Trump, and it means the media — despite 90% of their coverage on Trump every day being totally negative — has failed, and the Democrats have failed, to drive his approval numbers down to the twenties or thirties.<\/p>\n

Which would make impeachment or impeachment proceedings work, succeed, and therefore be something they could use in the campaign agenda. But they haven\u2019t been able to do that. And now they\u2019ve set themselves up to run against the greatest employment in 18, 20 years, to run against this massive increase in manufacturing jobs, to run against a very popular — and gaining popularity every week — tax cut.<\/p>\n

Look at what they\u2019re running against, and then turn on the media again and tell me what you see of the Democrat agenda. What is there in the media every day that would inspire anybody or motivate anybody to vote for the Democrats? The answer is nothing, except hatred for Donald Trump. Sorry, that\u2019s not gonna do it — and they know it, otherwise they wouldn\u2019t try to rein people in on all this impeachment chatter.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, as far as the midterms are concerned, let\u2019s remember something else. Donald Trump has not begun the campaign yet. Maybe the appearance in Washington Township, Michigan, you could say was the beginning of a campaign. He dumped all over Debbie Stabenow. (impression) He said, “Look, you keep putting these people back into office and you keep complaining about what they do. It\u2019s time to stop putting them in office.”<\/p>\n

But the point is Trump hasn\u2019t even started to campaign. When Trump starts to campaign, when he goes to these states, when he goes to these districts and starts campaigning against these Democrats, they\u2019re not gonna know what hit them. They\u2019re all living the illusion that Trump\u2019s hated and despised by everybody, \u2019cause they pay attention to their media — which misled them on Hillary winning the White House, don\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, the mainstream media does the Democrat Party more harm than anybody would ever acknowledge. The Democrat Party believes the tripe and the crap that they put out every day. They thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. They think Trump is hated and despised now. Well, Trump hasn\u2019t even begun to campaign; the Democrats are. That\u2019s all the Democrats are doing. Everything they\u2019re doing is part of the campaign for the midterms.<\/p>\n

Getting rid of Trump, Mueller, Comey, they\u2019re all part of the Democrat campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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