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RUSH: I want to go to the audio sound bites. I need to straighten something out. I guess it was last week sometime (it might have been earlier this week; it\u2019s already Wednesday), I made a reference to what would happen at the convention if Trump gets close and whatever games are played to deny him the nomination, even if it\u2019s this delegate mechanism that Cruz is using. I made an observation that\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

And that is, if the nomination is denied Trump, Trump supporters are gonna go nuts. Now, it has been suggested that I was advocating or acknowledging that there\u2019s going to be a riot. That\u2019s not what I meant. Nor am I trying to further some sort of Trump talking point. I\u2019m simply talking about human nature. The Trump campaign is made up of people that are… We have discussed over the course of this campaign that the bond Trump supporters have with him is unbreakable; it\u2019s deep.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any other candidate in this race who has anything like it, folks. Not Hillary, not nobody. Nobody has had it. Only Trump has this this special bond. The media can\u2019t break it. They didn\u2019t make it happen. It\u2019s a unique thing. It\u2019s a special thing. It doesn\u2019t happen to everybody. Even successful people in media sometimes do not have this kind of a bond with their audience. I\u2019ll give you an example of what I\u2019m talking about.<\/line><\/p>\n

Back in the nineties before cable TV fractured news, the nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC, had phenomenal numbers, huge numbers in terms of ratings. And you had the anchors. They were Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. And, of course, millions of people were watching. But the audiences did not have connections with those anchors; they just knew them. I mean, they were celebrities. I came back from the Houston convention in 1992, and I was on a plane with Peter Jennings and Ed Bradley. <\/p>\n

And we\u2019re at baggage claim, and I had all kinds of people coming up and saying hello to me and saying complimentary things. Nice things, what have you. Nobody approached Ed Bradley. Nobody approached Jennings. Everybody knew who they were and people stared at them and they pointed at them, but, you know, they didn\u2019t have connection. If Trump shows up at baggage claim, he\u2019d be swarmed. It\u2019s that kind of connection that Trump has and nobody else in this political season has had it.<\/p>\n

And my only point is with that connection being as deep as it is and the Trump people already thinking that behind the scenes tricks are being played to steal the nomination from him, they don\u2019t understand this delegate business at all, and they don\u2019t understand how Cruz is not winning a thing and is still getting all these delegates. It doesn\u2019t make sense to \u2019em. So if a contested convention occurred and if Cruz did happen to win the nomination on a second ballot, there would be hell to pay. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not talking about riots. I\u2019m just talking about people, Trump supporters would be fit to be tied. They would leave convention. They would walk out. They would leave the party. They wouldn\u2019t vote. It would be a mess. Speaking of which, Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard — we got the sound bite coming up — says that the Republican Party even now is planning on a third-party candidate if Trump is the nominee. They are just that panicked about it, and they just can\u2019t abide it. There\u2019s no way they can get behind it, the Trump campaign. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I want to get back to this this business here at the convention of what would happen here if they go contested and Trump is denied. You can\u2019t take things out of context. You have to put them in context when analyzing this. So on one hand you have Cruz who is brilliantly putting together this delegate plan of his. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t care how many of you in the Trump camp think it\u2019s cheating. It isn\u2019t. I don\u2019t care how many think it\u2019s a violation of the democrat process. It isn\u2019t. Everything Cruz is doing candidates have done for time immemorial. They have to do it even in non-contested conventions, they have to get the delegates, and those delegates are acquired in a number of ways. One is via primary vote; the other is at state conventions. <\/p>\n

So Cruz is brilliantly working these state conventions, and he is securing much delegate support on the second and third ballot, but there\u2019s a problem here and that is Cruz isn\u2019t winning elections anywhere. That has nothing to do with whether he\u2019s getting delegates or not. That has to do with, in a contested convention, if Cruz were to somehow pull off the nomination by securing 1,237 votes from delegates on a second or third ballot, the backlash would be overwhelming because there hasn\u2019t been an accompanying series of election wins in these primaries that would make the delegate sweep make sense. <\/line><\/p>\n

Whether people understood it or not, it would not be seen as valid or proper. But it\u2019s the only route that Cruz has open to him, and him and his supporters would face a phenomenal backlash if he wins the nomination by winning delegates but not getting the votes. So if that were to happen, the only point that I\u2019m making is that Trump supporters, whether they\u2019re right or wrong in their assessment of what happened and how it happened, would simply be fit to be tied. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about riots. I\u2019m not talking about burning anything down. I\u2019m saying they would be fit to be tied. They would look at this as having been stolen from them. They\u2019d walk out. The Republican Party would have — I mean, they can\u2019t win, the Republican Party cannot win without Trump\u2019s voters; it just can\u2019t happen. Well, my making this observation has been seen in some quarters as my suggesting that there would be riots and that this is something that Trump has forecast and that somehow I am carrying a Trump message. And I\u2019m not doing anything of the sort. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even thinking of riots when I think people would be upset, angry, and would protest a result like this. If Cruz had been winning primaries and succeeds with a delegate challenge, that\u2019s a little bit different picture. Anyway, I\u2019m leading up to the fact that they discussed this on The Five, my contention here that there would be hell to pay from the from the Trump supporters. It was on yesterday\u2019s program, and they started out playing this clip of what I said.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: I don\u2019t think anybody understands the blowback that would happen from the Trumpists. If that ever happens, we are gonna see a nuclear explosion like you\u2019ve never seen before. Holy smokes, the blowback that will happen then, the backlash, that will be the end of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I did say that it would make what happened at Watts and the Rodney King situation look like Romper Room, but I wasn\u2019t talking about riots, and I certainly was not advocating them. I\u2019m just was reacting to Trump callers that I\u2019ve been taking for the past two weeks who are fit to be tied over this whole delegate thing, don\u2019t understand it, think it\u2019s rigged, think it\u2019s cheating, think it\u2019s not the democrat process, and if it actually happened that their guy was denied on this basis, look out. That\u2019s all I said. I just wanted to clarify this. I\u2019m kind of ticked off that I have to, but nevertheless I\u2019ll be glad I\u2019ve got the opportunity to do it. Here\u2019s some of the reaction starting with Kimberly Guilfoyle at Fox News on The Five.<\/p>\n

GUILFOYLE: Ay, caramba! I don\u2019t think it\u2019s implausible to say that there would be chaos or there would be backlash or there would be some kind of uproar or disappointment. People certainly have been passionate that are big supporters of Donald Trump, to come out to hear him speak, waiting in long lines, sifting through protestors to be able to get into whatever event space that he has at the time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, and here\u2019s Greg Gutfeld with his reaction to it.<\/p>\n

GUTFELD: If you believe that he is going to lose and that Hillary will be the nominee and the president and put in four Supreme Court justices, your conclusion is, do you let it happen or do you do everything possible to stop it and incur the wrath at the convention from — is the wrath that you get from the Trumpists, as Rush says, worth it to save a massacre in November?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s basically asking if it\u2019s worth enduring the wrath of the Trumpists to nominate somebody who in the eyes of the anti-Trump crowd can\u2019t defeat Hillary? And, you know, we\u2019ll let events answer that question. I think it\u2019s going a little bit far here. I just wanted to clarify my characterization of the reaction of Trump supporters should this delegate strategy of Cruz\u2019s actually manifest and pay off and he gets the nomination, especially now. <\/p>\n

You put the context of what happened yesterday in those five states, again, every county Trump wins, winning 59% of the vote, 62% of the vote, 54% of the vote, it would be a tough sell, even though it would all be legal. Nobody would have time for that, though, because it would appear to be a violation of the expressed will of the majority as having occurred in actual elections. And in terms of that, they\u2019d have a point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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