{"id":278516,"date":"2018-07-05T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=278516"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:33:26","slug":"a-tiny-minority-turned-out-for-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/05\/a-tiny-minority-turned-out-for-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Minority Turned Out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here is Mark in Vienna, Virginia, as we head back to the phones. I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you? Third-time caller, longtime listener.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278561 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-Obama-Poster-ocasio-cortez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-Obama-Poster-ocasio-cortez.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-Obama-Poster-ocasio-cortez-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I was calling because I was listening to your show yesterday, and you had a number of different best-of segments. And one of those segments discussed the Ben Rhodes strategy of, while they were trying to advance the Iran nuclear deal, they essentially were feeding all these young reporters whatever they wanted them to say or tweet and they essentially would just regurgitate it. And he was essentially mocking these reporters because they were so young, they were 27, 28-year-olds, but they had no life experience, and they didn\u2019t know anything.<\/p>\n<p>Well, after I was listening to your show, it reminded me of this woman who just won the New York primary in New York 14, this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She\u2019s exactly like that. And this woman has an undergraduate degree, she\u2019s 28 years old, I believe, she\u2019s been working for a few years as a bartender-waitress, and that\u2019s her life experience. She really knows nothing. She\u2019s exactly like the type of people that Ben Rhodes was mocking because they were so naive. And yet because this woman wins this primary, the Democratic Party is literally turning itself inside out &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, she\u2019s brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; she won one primary election.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: She\u2019s absolutely brilliant, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brilliant, the new face of the Democrat Party. Now, let me just tell people, Ben Rhodes was Obama\u2019s, one of his national security guys. He was instrumental in putting the Iran nuclear deal together and much like the guy who did Obamacare for Obama, afterwards he remarked on how easy it was to lie to the American people about Obamacare. Rhodes was doing the same thing. How easy it was to lie about the deal because reporters just bought everything we told \u2019em and practically reprinted it verbatim, retweeted it, wrote it, whatever. You\u2019re exactly right. I\u2019m glad you heard that segment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-070518-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: It\u2019s just amazing that the Democratic Party is literally turning itself inside out now because of this one primary election. And I don\u2019t know what the numbers were in terms of the turnout, but it can\u2019t have been very large in an election where &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It was a sizable &#8212; she beat this dinosaur by like 15 points, and the polls had him winning by 35. It was a shocker, there\u2019s no question.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The turnout in the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was under 20%. The caller was right. The turnout less than 20%. That was easy pickings for some dedicated Democrat socialist to take over some district. That\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So, yeah, the turnout in that race won by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was under 20%. Folks, do you realize that if this clown, Crowley, had just got his base out, that this whole thing would not have happened? She wins this election with less than a 20% turnout. Our caller was right. The Democrats are going bonkers thinking this is the new wave in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>And if Crowley, the incumbent, if your standard, ordinary, everyday Democrats, I know they\u2019re a dwindling few, but if they had just shown up. But look at this. There\u2019s another thing about this. We\u2019re constantly told the Democrats have all the enthusiasm, right? The Democrats, they\u2019re chomping at the bit! They can\u2019t wait to get rid of Trump!<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know Trump was not on this ballot. I know this was a primary. And I know it was just Ocasio-Cortez versus Crowley. But where was all this Democrat enthusiasm? I\u2019ll guarantee you that Crowley\u2019s voters thought he was a shoo-in because he\u2019s the kind of Democrat that wins elections with nobody voting anyway. Just one of these guys for whom the seat has been eternal and expected.<\/p>\n<p>But here comes this socialist-Marxist exciting a small percentage of that district and they\u2019re the ones that showed up and turned out. But even if they get a hundred percent turnout of all the socialist-Marxists, that\u2019s not gonna be enough to take back the House of Representatives. So they are, I think, what do you say, lying to themselves, fooling themselves. But it\u2019s why the Democrats are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that the Pelosi and the Schumer types would rather have their Marxism and socialism camouflaged. It\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s that they know that that wing of the Democrat Party in terms of raw numbers is really tiny. Not enough to win a national election, I mean, not even close. So you have a turnout of less than 20%, the seat turns, and now everybody\u2019s talking about how this is a revolution in the Democrat Party? Give me a break. What it\u2019s gonna end up doing is dividing and fracturing the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The turnout in the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was under 20%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":278561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Tiny Minority Turned Out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/05\/a-tiny-minority-turned-out-for-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A Tiny Minority Turned Out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - 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