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RUSH: From a deeply — when you read this, folks, you can just sense the desperation and the sadness on the page from the Washington Post, headline: “Republicans Are A Lot Closer to ‘Maybe Trump\u2019 than ‘Never Trump.'”<\/a> This is a piece written by Philip Bump. <\/p>\n

“In CBS\u2019s polling, Trump\u2019s lead over Sen. Ted Cruz has dropped since March. Last month, he led by 20 points. Now he leads by 13. But that\u2019s where the good news for the never-Trumpers ends. First of all, Republicans are slightly more likely to say that they would support Trump\u2019s nomination ‘enthusiastically\u2019 than they were last month. Overall, two-thirds of Republicans say they\u2019d support him enthusiastically or with some reservations.<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s more, the number of people saying ‘never Trump\u2019 literally — that they\u2019d never vote for him — is essentially the same as the number of people who say that about Cruz or Kasich.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>So there\u2019s no, shall we say, disadvantage in the never-Trump column because it\u2019s no higher than it is for Cruz or Kasich. So in that vein, let\u2019s hit the Karl Rove sound bites. This is from this morning, America\u2019s Newsroom, Bill Hemmer talking with Karl Rove. He says, “Politico says that you have warmed up to Trump, that you\u2019re thinking now of moving closer to Trump. Is that right?”<\/p>\n

ROVE: It was a story in yesterday\u2019s Politico<\/a>, and it is third hand reporting on a conference call we had with our donors. The answer is no. We had a conference call in which we breached our donors. We\u2019re involved in a continuing set of research, focus groups and polls focused on Hillary Clinton and how to beat her. The evidence was that as weak as candidate as she is, he can\u2019t exploit those weaknesses. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, they don\u2019t come into play.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: What\u2019s your conclusion, then? Can he beat her in a national election?<\/p>\n

ROVE: The purpose of the call was not to identify that. My personal view is he can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Rove disputing that he\u2019s moving closer to Trump and then saying in answer to a question that he does not think Trump can beat Hillary. So we go to Fox on the record with Greta last night talking to Rove, and she says this. “Okay, let\u2019s assume that he gets to 1,237 and he wins, but he\u2019s got this bad number against Clinton, November polling data. Between July and November do you think the Republican Party and Donald Trump could whip up the party to vote for him and get all the needed voters they need to beat Hillary by November? Can he turn this around?”<\/p>\n

ROVE: The real question is, can Donald Trump unify the Republican Party? Bob Woodward said, you know, you\u2019ve broken a lot of eggs. Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time to, you know, stop and unite the party? He said I think I got two more eggs to break. Later on they said to him, you know, don\u2019t you really want to have the support of these people? Do you want the support of Ted Cruz? He says, I don\u2019t want it. He says I think unity is overstated. The nominee of the Republican Party, whoever he is or she is, has to take the principal responsibility for uniting the party. That\u2019s gonna tough for Trump to do if his mind-set is, I don\u2019t need these people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, maybe, like our caller said<\/a>, maybe Trump doesn\u2019t care about uniting the Republican Party. Maybe his objective is to start a whole new one, called the Trump Party, and he\u2019s the nominee of the Trump Party. I mean, an official break from it at some point. If Rove is right here. Only time will tell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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