{"id":366005,"date":"2020-09-25T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=366005"},"modified":"2020-09-28T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:25:16","slug":"thomas-b-edsalls-warnings-for-the-biden-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/25\/thomas-b-edsalls-warnings-for-the-biden-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas B. Edsall\u2019s Warnings for the Biden Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s a story from Just the News<\/a>: “The momentum of the Joe Biden campaign is showing signs of stalling less than a month and a half before the Nov. 3 election, with the Democratic nominee at the center of a political effort that is forgoing knocking on doors, skipping entire days\u2019 worth of campaigning, and at times appearing to avoid engagements with the [media] in contrast to his more gregarious Republican opponent.”<\/p>\n

But look, as I said, the lack of Biden\u2019s physical presence anywhere is offset by a massive advertising campaign that has Biden video and audio — and it does, in a way, serve a purpose. It makes it look like Biden is everywhere with all these ads. If you live in a number of states where these Biden ads are running, you\u2019ll assume that Biden\u2019s in your state doing campaign appearances.<\/p>\n

The ads make Biden look very active, very engaged. Yet he absolutely is running an AWOL campaign, and if he doesn\u2019t fall flat on his face during the first debate — which won\u2019t happen on Tuesday night — then the media\u2019s gonna declare him the most vigorous candidate in history. You wait and see. So, again, we have it out there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to getting your reaction to this, that Biden is staying hidden because they believe the media. They believe the polls. They\u2019ve got this in the bag. Biden\u2019s sitting on a landslide win. There\u2019s no reason to go anywhere. All you can do by going somewhere is screw it up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I mentioned that I had a piece yesterday I didn\u2019t get to. This would be a good opportunity. Thomas B. Edsall in the New York Times, a piece a couple days ago” “Five Things Biden and His Allies Should Be Worried About,”<\/a> and in a way, this piece by Thomas B. Edsall makes some points that I have made in the recent past about who the…<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a group of people, voters, out there that everybody is convinced, pollsters are not finding, that Trump doesn\u2019t know who they are, that the Democrats don\u2019t know who they are. You know the discussion that I led on who are all these people<\/a> showing up at Trump rallies, starting in 2016 and to the present?<\/p>\n

Who are they? It\u2019s not an easy thing to go to a Trump rally, and there are literally tens of thousands of people doing this. They\u2019re coming from somewhere. They are giving up an entire day and night to get there, and they\u2019re doing it with no guarantee of getting in. They\u2019re doing it with no guarantee of getting close.<\/p>\n

I think a lot of them — especially back in 2016 — were people that the pollsters didn\u2019t know how to reach. Especially in 2016! In 2016, these people were mocked, people at Trump rallies. They were impugned and laughed at. They were made fun of. They\u2019re just being ignored this year. It\u2019s as though all of these people at the Trump rallies are invisible.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even a factor. People don\u2019t even care to find out who they are. They\u2019re the untalked to. The pollsters aren\u2019t finding them. Campaigns aren\u2019t finding them — except the Trump campaign is finding them because they\u2019re showing up to Trump events. So here from Mr. Thomas B. Edsall. “Five reasons Joe Biden\u2019s consistent lead over Trump does not guarantee him a lock on the White House.”<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re thinking, “Well, it\u2019s the polls, and the polls lie. It\u2019s the Drive-Bys, and they lie,” okay. “He sold his office to Russia. His son\u2019s a criminal. Biden has dementia.” Nope. It\u2019s none of those things. None of those things are why Thomas B. Edsall thinks that Biden should be worried. First… I\u2019ll give you the five.<\/p>\n

“First, there are indications,” writes Mr. Edsall, “that Trump\u2019s base of support … is more energized and committed to voting this year than key Democratic constituencies. And there is also evidence that polling does not reflect this.” Hmm. Hmmmmm. So at the New York Times, they think they have found that Trump voters are more energized — and, by the way, you know who they are?<\/p>\n

They are “whites without college degrees.” Do you know what that means? These are stupid people. White, uneducated. You might as well substitute the word “hayseed,” as far as the New York Times is concerned. You might as well substitute the word “hick.” You might even substitute the word “banjo” or “Deliverance,” because that\u2019s what they mean when they throw in this characteristic: “whites without college degrees.”<\/p>\n

\"\"In the New York Times world, whites without college degrees are despicable. White people without college degrees are the biggest danger this country faces. Do you know why? Because they\u2019re white people! They have the ability to get educated. The deck is stacked in their favor. They have white supremacy on their side. They have white privilege on their side.<\/p>\n

Yet these dummkopfs have steadfastly refused to educate themselves. They prefer to be dumb and uninformed. That\u2019s what the New York Times thinks “whites without college degrees” means. Do not doubt me on this. That is exactly what they think of you — and I\u2019m one of you. I\u2019m white and I don\u2019t have a college degree, and that\u2019s exactly how they think of us.<\/p>\n

Do not doubt me on this. They think the deck is stacked in our favor, that we — before anybody else in this country — could get a college degree because white supremacy and because of white privilege. The fact that we don\u2019t have college degrees, means that we\u2019re too stupid to understand how important it is. It\u2019s understandable that women might not have degrees.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable that African-Americans might not have degrees. Because people like you and me, we\u2019re standing in their way with white supremacy and privilege and all that, you see. Do not discount this. This is how these people look at us. So, the number one problem Biden faces: “indications that Trump\u2019s base of support — whites without college degrees — is more energized and committed to voting this year…”<\/p>\n

How many of you were hearing that for the first time? How many of you believe that it\u2019s the Biden voter that can\u2019t wait to go vote? It\u2019s Democrats, not Biden, \u2019cause Biden doesn\u2019t have a connection. But the Democrats? Oh, they hate Trump so much! They\u2019re so fed up with Trump, Mr. Orange Man, they just can\u2019t stand it anymore!<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones who can\u2019t wait to line up and vote, and yet Mr. Edsall says (paraphrased), “No, no, that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s the Republicans that have more enthusiasm,” and there\u2019s no question in my mind that that\u2019s true. You know why? For four years, the people who elected Donald Trump have had to listen to this drivel — and you know what it all is: He\u2019s not qualified; his voters are stupid idiots, racists and bigots and all that — and they\u2019re fed up with it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re fed up with the attempts to run him out of office. They\u2019re fed up with all the scandals that have been perpetrated. They\u2019re fed up with Russia this, Russia that. They\u2019re fed up of hearing Biden\u2019s got the thing sewn up. They\u2019re tired of hearing Biden in a landslide, like Hillary. They can\u2019t wait to go out there and prove every damn one of you in the media wrong again. At the same time they can\u2019t wait to go out there and save their country, and they really believe that that\u2019s what Donald Trump is. Donald Trump will save this country from the American left. That equals enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Okay, the second of these five reasons that Biden should be worried, “Latinos, who are key to the outcome in several crucial states — Arizona and Florida, for example — have shown less support for Biden than for past Democratic nominees. Many Hispanic voters seem resistant to any campaign that defines them broadly as ‘people of color.'”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Did you know that? Did you know that Hispanics don\u2019t like being considered people of color? Did you know that they don\u2019t like being called people of color? And who does that?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. The left. The Democrats. Because that\u2019s how they see everybody. Their skin color. Or their sexual gender. Or their orientation. That\u2019s how they see people, first, second, third, and fourth. They don\u2019t see who you are. They don\u2019t care who you are.<\/p>\n

The third reason Biden should be worried, “absentee voting is expected to be higher among Democrats than Republicans, subjecting their ballots to a greater risk of rejection.” Whoa. Wait a minute. I thought all this time we\u2019re supposed to be voting early and often and mail-in ballots and absentee. Why? Well, because bad orange man\u2019s gonna have a landslide win on election night. The left is being warned, if they watch election returns on election night, don\u2019t get depressed because the early returns are gonna have Trump winning in a landslide.<\/p>\n

But after they start counting the mail-in and absentee ballots, that\u2019s when Biden is going to score the reverse landslide win. So now here comes Thomas B. Edsall. Nah, absentee voting, that\u2019s not a reason to be happy. That\u2019s a reason to be worried, if you\u2019re Biden. Because Democrats do it more than Republicans. And that means their ballots are gonna be rejected more for irregularities or illegalities.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Edsall says here, it\u2019s “a fate more common to mailed-in votes than to in-person voting.” It\u2019s another reason why I say flood the zone, just show up on Election Day and vote, I mean, like you have not done it before. There\u2019s no substitute for it. It\u2019s going to counter so many other attempts at vote fraud. There\u2019s no substitute for showing up. I know some of you have to vote early and some of you have to vote absentee. But for those of you who don\u2019t, showing up on Election Day, there\u2019s no substitute for it, folks. I don\u2019t care how long you have to wait. It\u2019ll send the fear of God down these spines. The turnout alone will drive them nuts.<\/p>\n

The fourth thing that Biden should be worried about, “the generic Democratic-Republican vote (‘Would you be more willing to vote for a Republican or Democratic candidate for Congress?\u2019) through early July favored Democrats by more than 10 points, but has since narrowed to 6 points.” And they\u2019re losing ground on this generic question, are you more willing to vote Republican or Democrat. Meaning things are trending.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

As time gets closer to the election, things are trending away from Biden, which is what happened to Hillary, which they have to see. See, I don\u2019t believe that Biden has ever been going to win in a landslide. But the polling data\u2019s all said. So they\u2019ve gotta normalize it somehow, and they do it with this kind of stuff as we get closer to the election.<\/p>\n

The fifth reason that Biden should be worried, the debates. “The debates will test Biden\u2019s ability to withstand three 90-minute battles against an opponent known for brutal personal attacks.” Like Biden doesn\u2019t know anything about that. Biden as a Democrat doesn\u2019t know a thing about personal attacks. But Mr. Orange Man, that\u2019s all he knows, that\u2019s all he does. So Plugs and his team have gotta worry about showing up three times for 90 minutes and withstanding the withering personal insults from Mr. Orange Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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