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<\/a><\/p>\nCALLER: Just lay out the differences. Here is where I stand. Here\u2019s where my opponent stands. And if you can just lay it out simple, easy —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, I think Trump — I\u2019ve been watching his rallies. And one thing I\u2019ve noticed in the rallies is he has developed a four- to five-minute riff on exactly this. He has — I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s part of debate prep. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s part of rally prep. He\u2019s not gonna get four uninterrupted minutes, but he has been, in these rallies, I think doing a great job of explaining his achievements, the accomplishments of his administration to date. And he\u2019s doing it within a time frame of four to five minutes so he could reduce that, I think.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s gonna at least get two minutes. And then Plugs is gonna get two minutes at the beginning, you know, answering every question. That\u2019s when he needs to be quiet. Let Biden take all of his two minutes and don\u2019t interrupt him. ‘Cause I\u2019m telling you after about a minute or 90 seconds, that\u2019s when it\u2019s gonna get dicey. But let me share with you another perspective that I\u2019ve had on this.<\/p>\n
I think every one of us needs to take a moment and remember something. We need to actually remind ourselves what we are seeing happen every day. We see it, we take it for granted. But you need — we all do — to take a moment to appreciate what\u2019s going on. Because in one sense it is very sad and strange to watch Donald Trump, who\u2019s worn out, folks. Donald Trump is still coming off COVID-19. He got over COVID-19 in a record amount of time. But he still has to be worn out from it.<\/p>\n
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And not just COVID-19. He\u2019s doing three to four rallies a day. He does not have time for downtime. He doesn\u2019t really have time for debate prep. He\u2019s focusing on these rallies, and he\u2019s trying to make them as sharp as he can. He\u2019s not doing 90-minute rallies anymore. He\u2019s tightening them up. He\u2019s getting in there, he\u2019s getting it, and he\u2019s getting out. And in the midst of all this he\u2019s fighting the media, he\u2019s fighting the swamp, he\u2019s fending off the deep state and their efforts to destroy him, while what\u2019s going on at the same time?<\/p>\n
Joe Biden sleeps. Joe Biden rests. Joe Biden ostensibly preps. And the media puts a wall around him while attacking Trump. If you want to talk about a stacked deck, you could very well make the case here. I think that you all need to have a renewed appreciation for Donald Trump. And I\u2019m not practicing sycophancy here. I don\u2019t need to kiss up to President Trump. I\u2019m saying this from the tip, the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n
I think there needs to be a renewed round of appreciation for what this man is attempting to do for everybody else, what he\u2019s attempting to do for you, what he\u2019s attempting to do for me, by saving this country. And he\u2019s doing it, in large part, alone. Yeah, he\u2019s got a staff. But he doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of party assistance out there. We\u2019re watching a worn-out — he has to be. Even these indefatigable, even though he has more energy than any president I\u2019ve ever seen, there are still limits.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not doing this for himself. Not strictly. I\u2019m sure he wants the achievement. I\u2019m sure he wants the achievement of being reelected. I\u2019m sure he wants to serve his second term. But he\u2019s doing things that none of us could do. He\u2019s doing things that very few of us would even try. Three to four rallies a day while worn out, folks. No time for downtime. No time for debate prep. He\u2019s fending off the media, like Lesley Stahl at 60 Minutes. By the way, that\u2019s who it was that called me the other day.<\/p>\n
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Lesley Stahl called and her question was — and she didn\u2019t want to talk to me on camera — “Will you tell your audience to be nice if the election\u2019s undecided on election night? Will you tell your audience to be calm?” That\u2019s what she was gonna ask me. The presumption being that you people are an out of control bunch of zombies, just gonna run around and raise hell. You\u2019re not out of control. You\u2019re not zombies. You\u2019re the glue that keeps this country held together. They are the zombies. They\u2019re the people running around setting their own cities and towns and businesses on fire.<\/p>\n
I resent the implication that you people represent the problem in this country. You\u2019re the solution. You get up and go to work every day, do everything you can to play by the rules. You got Donald Trump out there attempting to stand up for you and make sure that the effort you\u2019re making is not wasted, that you have a country where your activity and your desires are going to be rewarded.<\/p>\n
And, meanwhile, Joe Biden gets to sleep. Joe Biden gets to rest. He gets to prepare for the debate, whatever that is. The media puts up a protective wall and a moat around the guy while attacking Trump 24\/7. So I think Trump can do what you want. I think Trump is got a technique here for espousing his achievements, his issues in a concise and limited amount of time.<\/p>\n
Folks, we\u2019ve had three years of allegations of corruption against Trump, and they have turned up nothing. Three years of absolute nothing. The most investigated, the biggest anal exam of a human being I\u2019ve ever seen in American politics, the most offensive invasions of privacy we\u2019ve ever seen, and they have turned up nothing. Donald Trump, of all the people in that town, is clean as a whistle. And he has every right to make this comparison between himself and Joe Biden. He just has to be careful how he does it. Gotta lower Biden\u2019s approval and raise Trump\u2019s at the same time.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, I was talking about the obstacles that Donald Trump faces mere moments ago, and I was discussing how I think that you and I and everybody else needs to try to have a renewed sense of appreciation for what Donald Trump is attempting to do and what he\u2019s up against as he tries to do it.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s up against more forces arrayed against him than most politicians will ever see in a lifetime. He\u2019s got the entire deep state of the United States government for four years and counting arrayed against him, trying to destroy him. He\u2019s got the media-industrial complex in toto arrayed against him, and the only way they can operate the way they do is to lie constantly, literally to make things up — and you know how difficult it is.<\/p>\n
If somebody is lying about you at work, lying about you in school, you know how difficult it is to refute that accusation. You can do it, but people that think you\u2019re complaining about it wonder. (snidely) “Well, there must be something here or you wouldn\u2019t be whining about it, would you? There must be something to it or it wouldn\u2019t be bothering you.”<\/p>\n
I hate that! I despise that when people tell me. But my point is, you know how challenging this is. All the while, the man is worn out. He\u2019s doing three to four rallies a day. He doesn\u2019t have time for downtime. He doesn\u2019t have time to go to sleep like Biden does all day long and then go do whatever he does for debate prep — and then, ladies and gentlemen, there is something else.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not sufficient that they make sure Trump supporters can\u2019t talk about Hunter Biden and his laptop. No! Locking him out, locking his supporters out of their platform is not nearly enough. Now they\u2019re running a $100 million war chest campaign against him. “Silicon Valley Megadonors Unleash a Last Minute, $100 Million Barrage of Ads Against Trump —<\/p>\n “Facebook billionaire co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has put more than $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big. A little-known Democratic super PAC backed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest donors is quietly unleashing a torrent of television spending in the final weeks of the presidential campaign in a last-minute attempt to oust President Donald Trump…<\/p>\n “The barrage of late money — which includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz — figures among one of the most expensive and aggressive plays yet by tech billionaires, who have spent years studying how to maximize the return they get from each additional dollar they spend on politics.<\/p>\n “Moskovitz is placing his single biggest public bet yet on the evidence that TV ads that come just before Election Day are the best way to” get your big bang for the buck. “The super PAC, called Future Forward, has remained under the radar but is spending more than $100 million on television and digital in the final month of the campaign — more than any other group — on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Joe [Bite Me] outside of the [Bite Me] campaign itself.<\/p>\n “And it has been leading a separate, previously unreported $28 million proposed campaign to elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate from Texas…” They\u2019re doing all these little things under the radar out there, but it\u2019s all aimed at bouncing Trump. “Future Forward\u2019s size and strategy is now moving more into the public view.<\/p>\n “It plans to report to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday that it raised $66 million in just the 45 days between September 1 and October 15 — a haul powered by Silicon Valley billionaires like Twilio founder Jeff Lawson, longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Moskovitz,” co-founder of Facebook, “who has been one of the most enigmatic Democratic megadonors of the Trump era.”<\/p>\n Now, up \u2019til now their money\u2019s gone down the bottomless pit. They haven\u2019t been able to stop Trump. They haven\u2019t been able to unseat Trump. And I don\u2019t know if this is gonna work, either. I\u2019m just telling you, this is what Trump is facing on a daily basis. These are the things that Trump is up against every day. (interruption) Yeah, I think it\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n “Isn\u2019t this meddling in the election?” How much did the Russians spend in the election? Russians only spent $100,000. Do you remember that? The ads that the Russians spent — (chuckling) which ran after the election, by the way. The Russians that Mueller indicted, they ran ads after the election, and they ran $100,000 worth, and these guys were indicted for meddling in the American election.<\/p>\n So what is this?<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think that he gets enough appreciation, and I understand why. He\u2019s a controversial figure. He says things and does things that a lot of people wish he would say and do differently, and people get lost. They get caught up in all of that irrelevant minutia instead of focusing on the achievements, the accomplishments, the objectives, the future agenda.<\/p>\n This election really is about what kind of country this is going to be, and I know we probably make people… What\u2019s the word? We might say this so often that people just become immune to hearing it. “Aw, there they go again. ‘Most important election in the history of the country.\u2019 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We\u2019ve been hearing this our whole lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”<\/p>\n Well, this really is, and I think it\u2019s been true of the previous ones well as well. We wouldn\u2019t be anywhere near where we are if Obama had not won those two elections, but he did. If Obama hadn\u2019t won in 2008 and 2012, we wouldn\u2019t be in the dire straits we\u2019re in now. All these things do matter at the time. Now we have an election where we have a candidate who believes in the decency and in the goodness of the United States of America, who believes that we are the good guys — that we are the last, best hope of earth.<\/p>\n He believes it, and we\u2019re running against a candidate who is being propped up and supported by a bunch of people who don\u2019t think that at all. They think the exact opposite. But they\u2019re not on the campaign trail. They are not putting their names or faces forward, saying that they don\u2019t believe in the decency and the goodness of America.<\/p>\n They think America needs to be “software rewritten.” They think America needs to be shut down and rebooted. America 2.0. Because America\u2019s problems are irredeemable in their world. Our problems are unfixable. We cannot fix slavery. We cannot fix the injustices done to women. We cannot. Even though we have, we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n America, in their view, is forever and permanently flawed, and therefore the founding documents that put this country together must be abandoned. That would be the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of United States including the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights. Dire circumstances, dire consequences — and that\u2019s what Donald Trump is running to protect.<\/p>\n Now, all these polls, I\u2019ve been looking at it. In “the swing states show the race narrowing. If the trend continues at the current rate, President Trump could poll even in two weeks — in addition to the ‘other\u2019 polls that show him near there already.”<\/p>\n “Every 10 days, the campaign starts anew. Trump\u2019s rallies are back. He miraculously beat COVID-19 in near record time. Judge Amy Coney Barret proved stellar. If most voters poll they are better off than four years ago -” This is a stunning result to me, because we\u2019ve had the pandemic. And including the pandemic, people say they are economically better off today than they were four years ago under Barack Obama and Biden, including with the pandemic.<\/p>\n “They think Trump will win.” If most voters are saying these things, “it\u2019s increasingly difficult to believe the disconnect that they are intent on voting against someone who will win and would likely continue to make things better for them.” It just doesn\u2019t make sense they\u2019re gonna vote against a guy that they think is gonna win that they understand has made things better off for them than they were four years ago. It doesn\u2019t make sense that voters would vote against this guy, but that\u2019s what the media is asking us to believe.<\/p>\n “No one has quite figured out how to calibrate the data on early voting, the Republican surge in swing state registrations, and the effect of the nation\u2019s biggest campuses.” I\u2019m telling you what, though, early voting is leaning in the Republicans\u2019 favor in a massive way. It\u2019s stunning how early voting is trending Republican. It\u2019s stunning how in these battleground states Trump is surging.<\/p>\n All the while, “Joe Biden is inert.” He may as well be laying down in formaldehyde in the basement in Delaware. “He\u2019s running a virtual campaign in fear of the virus.” He\u2019s trying to avoid “questions about Hunter Biden, and of his suspected intention to pack the court or stop fracking.” Trump called him out on it last night at the rally in Erie, there\u2019s the video, countless numbers of times Biden admitting that he\u2019s going to ban fracking. 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<\/a>A Democrat super PAC… Future Forward is the name of it, and one of the cofounders of Facebook, a guy by the name of Dustin Moskovitz, are now spending $100 million against Trump. This according to Vox<\/a>. Because, you see, blocking him out of their platforms? No, no, that\u2019s not sufficient. It\u2019s not sufficient that they\u2019re blocking all of Trump\u2019s supporters out of their platforms.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Trump-Boxer.jpg\")
This is $100 million these wealthy little guys are dropping. Their ads are running at places like Fox & Friends. My point is, folks, that there are forces arrayed against Trump that you don\u2019t even see. There are forces arrayed against him that you do see. But if there\u2019s anybody that has earned your support and your loyalty because he\u2019s out doing what he\u2019s doing for you and your family and for this country, it\u2019s Donald Trump.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-Tear-NATIONAL-REVIEW-nat-rev-102120.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, Victor Davis Hanson says<\/a>, “Trump\u2019s mission at the final debate on Thursday is to continue to accelerate his momentum, not to take risks to melt down Joe Biden with verbal fireworks.” Mr. Hanson believes it would be a mistake to try to do anything designed to get Biden to flub up. Leave Biden alone, and he will. Don\u2019t make Biden the focus. Focus on maintaining your momentum if you\u2019re President Trump. Because at this stage of the campaign, every 10 days the campaign starts anew. This is my often made reminder that the events shaping this election haven\u2019t yet all happened.<\/p>\n