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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Patty, Somerset, Kentucky. Glad you waited. Welcome to our program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good, good, good, great. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. I\u2019m in Kentucky and I wanted to weigh in on just a couple things, just a couple other comments on the election here with Matt Bevin. I do appreciate that you pointed out it is not a reflection on Trump at all. Bevin was, I agree, a bit of a unlikable guy, he was a bit brash, but he did do his job, and I think really where he kind of lost it a bit was we had probably one of the most underfunded public pension systems in the U.S., and he inherited that from the last administration, which it might be Beshear\u2019s father, who I think was our last governor.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, so the teachers didn\u2019t like his (unintelligible) and they had sick-outs and all sorts of protests the whole time. They didn\u2019t want it fixed, which it probably was gonna run out of money if he didn\u2019t do something. So the unions backed the teachers, and they were out in force yesterday, kind of like was done in Wisconsin. I just think that\u2019s where the problem came in. And I think President Trump probably did bump his numbers up a lot to where he was a contender, but I think that\u2019s where the real problem was.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s interesting. Since this happened last night, I literally have been inundated with people who are professionals in politics and people in Kentucky telling me — it\u2019s kind of — I don\u2019t know — it\u2019s kind of weird what a bad guy he was. I mean, the name rings a bell. I knew he was Governor Matt Bevin and ended up confusing him with somebody else named Matt that I thought was a member of Congress.<\/p>\n
But I didn\u2019t know, for example, the animosity Republicans had for the guy until last night. And it\u2019s kind of been overwhelming. I\u2019ve chalked some of it up to people trying to explain how this guy\u2019s the only Republican who lost in a massive GOP sweep in Kentucky. So, Patty, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n
Grab sound bite number 10. This kind of situation — Kentucky, Virginia, Wisconsin, Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, this is the beat of Salena Zito. She has written a book and numerous columns profiling voters in these areas who voted for Trump, who they are, why they did, why they\u2019re solid, why they\u2019re staying, how the Democrats have expressed no interest in finding them at all. She was on CNN today earlier this morning with Drive-By advocate Jim Sciutto. And he said to her, “How concerning was last night for the Republican Party as we look ahead to 2020?”<\/p>\n
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ZITO: What happened in Kentucky, I just got back from there, was more about Bevin. He was very unpopular for a number of reasons. People thought of him as a carpetbagger, you know, not from this state, wasn\u2019t really in tune with the culture. But then, like if you look down ballot at the AG race, the secretary of state race and the agriculture race, you know, Republicans had great turnout, great wins. This sort of reminds me in 2009, 2010, when Barack Obama, then president, came out for Martha Coakley in Massachusetts over Scott Brown, did a big rally, Jon Corzine in New Jersey did a big rally, Arlen Specter, and all of them lost, but then the president went back and won in 2012.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That is an excellent recitation of history. Obama never had any coattails. In fact, one of the worst things that could happen to a candidate was to get Obama\u2019s endorsement. Ask Hillary. You know, it started at the Democrat convention with Obama standing up there saying that she may be the most qualified person ever to run for president, including himself and Bill Clinton. He\u2019s up there on stage and he\u2019s saying (paraphrasing), \u201cBill, you know, we\u2019re gonna have to admit it, she\u2019s better than both of us, dude.\u201d You know, we\u2019re all looking at ourselves like what\u2019s this guy on? It\u2019s so obviously smoke.<\/p>\n
Then Obama went out and campaigned for her, and he told everybody, “If you love me — and I know you do — and if you want my third term, you gotta vote for Hillary,” and what happened to her? She suffered a very significant defeat in the Electoral College, meaning she lost, and Obama did… Zito said this.<\/p>\n
He did campaign for Coakley and Corzine and Specter, and they all lost. But Obama won in 2012. Now, up to now Trump has had coattails. Bevin kind of is a unique circumstance in the fact that he\u2019s a candidate Trump really personally went out and campaigned for who did not win. And they\u2019re saying, “Well, he got a lot closer because of Trump than he otherwise would have been.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Coleman in Bradenton, Florida.\u00a0 Great to have you, sir.\u00a0 Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019ve been listening to the discussion about the race in Kentucky, and a lot of this talking about Bevin\u2019s negatives — and those may be true.\u00a0 I\u2019m from Florida, don\u2019t know the details. But I\u2019m looking at the county-by-county map in Kentucky, and if you were to compare that to an Electoral College map of the United States, looks like he would have won Kentucky handily.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah, I saw that. It\u2019s almost all red except for the blues in the cities and maybe some surrounding suburbs.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 We\u2019re looking at the liberal enclaves is what pushes states over the map.\u00a0 And, as you well know, in Florida, Broward and Dade Counties tend to push our elections and national elections as well.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Do I ever! Absolutely.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling) So, anyway, I think reflection on Trump is not a bad reflection on Trump.\u00a0 It probably shows that with the Electoral College, Trump is still popular. I personally think he\u2019s gonna carry the election in 2020.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, yeah. His approval numbers in Kentucky are 54\/41.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hmm!<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s 54\/41 in Kentucky right now — that was like yesterday — and if you look at the Kentucky county map, it\u2019s 85% red.\u00a0 The point is that if Bevin were elected the same way the Electoral College elects presidents, he would have won handily But the city vote overwhelms, you know, where the commie bas — uh, libs are.\u00a0 His negatives are what they are.\u00a0 Look it is what it is.\u00a0 It was a Republican sweep except for that.<\/p>\n
The point is, the point a lot of people are making is Bevin losing is not a reflection on Trump.\u00a0 And, by the way, that\u2019s not PR.\u00a0 It\u2019s not made up.\u00a0 The media all day has been trying to say it\u2019s the exact opposite, that it is the end of Trump, that it proves that Trump is finished.\u00a0 It\u2019s more of all they\u2019ve got, which is wishful thinking and dreaming.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t mean that at all.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Now, another reminder about why the left is winning the suburbs.\u00a0 A lot of it is geographical.\u00a0 Many of these people are leaving the cities — cities that they have destroyed, cities that they have corrupted, cities that have become unlivable. So they\u2019re moving to the suburbs.\u00a0 The problem is, they\u2019re taking the same policies and culture that caused them to leave to their new locations.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that the suburbs are… It\u2019s not like Ozzie and Harriet are becoming communists.\u00a0 They\u2019re being invaded by others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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