{"id":3751,"date":"2016-04-04T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-04T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:02:36","slug":"what_happens_after_wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens After Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Back on the Wisconsin primary, the Wall Street Journal today has a story headlined this way: “Donald Trump Faces Great Test Against Wisconsin\u2019s Conservative Political Network.”<\/a><\/p>\n

And it reminded me — I mentioned this at the top of the program. Scott Walker, the great governor of Wisconsin, faced a number of recall elections plus standard calendar reelections. If I\u2019m not mistaken, in most of these elections, most of these campaigns, preelection polling data made it look very, very bad for Scott Walker, made it look like he was losing. And it turned out that he ended up winning and in most of these instances, won big.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been added to the growing evidence that the conservative movement, for lack of a better term, in Wisconsin is big and it is serious and it is motivated. Walker won these elections, and he won \u2019em by a lot. The Democrats threw everything they had. They had national fundraising going on. They had Hollywood fundraisers, they had everything. They tried every dirty trick, every standard trick they could think of. <\/line><\/p>\n

And so the assumption here is that Cruz wins in a landslide tomorrow because of this massive conservative network that has actually been pro-Cruz. Walker has endorsed Cruz. The conservative network movement in Wisconsin is very much behind Cruz, very much opposed to Trump. There have been a number of polls, there are two polls that show Cruz up 10. There is one poll that shows Cruz up by one, margin of error, like 36 to 35. And a new poll out today that shows Trump down by eight, Cruz winning by eight in Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

Wisconsin is the beginning of this, according to the New York Times, 100-day effort by the GOP take the nomination away from Trump, to deny him from getting it, by preventing him from getting to 1,237. That is what the whole thing depends on. Now, the Politico had stories last week and over the weekend that Paul Ryan\u2019s the chosen one. That whenever you hear Republican people talking about “fresh face” perhaps coming out of the convention, they\u2019re talking about somebody that has not been in the race at all. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Look, I\u2019ve mentioned this three times, and I\u2019m gonna mention it once more, because I really think this is what\u2019s going on. They have admitted, the establishment has admitted that they are attempting to get to an open and contested convention. They have admitted that their preference is for no candidate currently running to get to 1,237 delegates. If they succeed, if neither candidate does, and, by the way, right now the only one with a breathing chance to do it is Trump. But he\u2019s gotta win Wisconsin. If he doesn\u2019t win Wisconsin then it puts all kinds of pressure on him for New York and Pennsylvania and New Jersey. You would think those are great states, but Kasich may take a number delegates in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

Trump is demanding Kasich get out of the race. Trump wants the Republicans to kick Kasich out and Kasich won\u2019t quit, \u2019cause Kasich\u2019s taking votes from him, not taking them from Cruz. (imitating Trump) “Does Kasich have a chance? What is this? He\u2019s only in there as a spoiler. He\u2019s hanging around to get the nomination contested convention. That\u2019s sour grapes. The guy doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Get him out of there. Kick him out of there. He should quit.” That\u2019s Trump on Kasich. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: What the Republican establishment is really aiming at doing is disqualifying Cruz and Trump, and probably Kasich. If neither of them get to 1,237, what is going to be the operating strategy is that none of these candidates can therefore be the nominee because they have already failed to secure the needed support in the democratic process. You wait. I can see this happening. The establishment is gonna say, “Hey, look, we had a primary, we had the democratic process. We had all of these candidates running, and not a single one of them got to 1,237. Therefore, they\u2019ve already been defeated. Nobody wants Trump, nobody wants Cruz, and so that\u2019s why we\u2019re going to choose somebody else.” <\/p>\n

Well, then they\u2019d have a tough time choosing Jeb, because Jeb did run and Jeb didn\u2019t get anywhere near it, either. There\u2019s some in the establishment that would love to see Jeb do it. Rubio is not letting go of his delegates. Very, very interesting. The thing goes open, this thing goes contested, you can see Rubio making a move. There\u2019s all kinds of stories about how Cruz is outmaneuvering Trump state by state in delegate selection for the crucial second ballot. The second ballot is where the action is actually focused right now. <\/p>\n

I think there are a lot of people more and more convinced that it\u2019s gonna settle in even deeper. If Trump does not win Wisconsin, the operating theory is then gonna be that nobody can get to 1,237. It\u2019s just insurmountable. I\u2019ll tell you what else is gonna happen, the next thing that\u2019s gonna happen. Even if Cruz wins tomorrow, let me tell you what\u2019s gonna happen with him. They\u2019re gonna say (\u2019cause it\u2019s already been reported, I think, in one blog) that by the end of April it will be mathematically impossible for Cruz to get to 1,237.<\/p>\n

Unless he wins a hundred percent of the delegates, which nobody can do. So you\u2019re going to see pressure on Cruz to get out at the end of this month, when there won\u2019t be enough delegates left (even if Cruz won them all) to get to 1,237. You\u2019re gonna have powerful forces say, “Senator, for the good of the party, it\u2019s time to admit that you can\u2019t win this and unite behind Trump and go ahead and make this happen to prevent a contested convention.” That pressure is building. I don\u2019t from who, but I know it\u2019s gonna come from somewhere. Because at some point, it\u2019s gonna be true. <\/p>\n

Now, the Cruz people know that getting to 1,237 is a long shot, but some of them think they can still do it if Trump becomes a big enough negative. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve always wanted is this one-on-one competition. So don\u2019t misunderstand me. But also the Cruz people are working very hard on the second ballot right now, which Trump is not doing. That\u2019s why Trump is learning he\u2019s losing delegates in Louisiana. He is losing delegates in other states. Tennessee. The Cruz people are going in and making arrangements with these delegates. <\/p>\n

I told you last week, the delegates haven\u2019t even been chosen in a lot of these states. It\u2019s an honor to be a delegate. They\u2019re chosen in many different ways, and the candidates are trying to exert whatever power and influence they can over delegate selection. Because once the second ballot comes, delegates can vote their hearts. They don\u2019t have to vote the way the people of the state voted in the primary. First ballot they do. So Trump is now saying, “Hey, hey, they\u2019re taking delegates away from me!” <\/line><\/p>\n

He\u2019s threatening to sue everybody. <\/p>\n

“They\u2019re taking delegates away from me! I won those delegates!”<\/p>\n

He made a big deal in his appearance yesterday in Eau Claire. “I won. I went down there, great crowds, great group of people. Louisiana? Won the state! And Lyin\u2019 Ted! Lyin\u2019 Ted, he holds up the Bible, and what does he do? He lies, lies! Lyin\u2019 Ted is trying to steal my delegates.” But that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s the way it happens. So this is nowhere near over. The excitement is gonna continue. The drama is going to continue, and even Kasich is out there saying that. “Oh, man, a contested convention? That would be really cool. Can you imagine all the mail that would happen to be delivered at the convention? It would be so exciting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Back on the Wisconsin primary, the Wall Street Journal today has a story headlined this way: “Donald Trump Faces Great Test Against Wisconsin\u2019s Conservative Political Network.” And it reminded me — I mentioned this at the top of the program. Scott Walker, the great governor of Wisconsin, faced a number of recall elections plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Back on the Wisconsin primary, the Wall Street Journal today has a story headlined this way: “Donald Trump Faces Great Test Against Wisconsin\u2019s Conservative Political Network.” And it reminded me — I mentioned this at the top of the program. Scott Walker, the great governor of Wisconsin, faced a number of recall elections plus […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/\",\"name\":\"What Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-04T19:02:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-04T19:02:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What Happens After Wisconsin\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"What Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Back on the Wisconsin primary, the Wall Street Journal today has a story headlined this way: “Donald Trump Faces Great Test Against Wisconsin\u2019s Conservative Political Network.” And it reminded me — I mentioned this at the top of the program. Scott Walker, the great governor of Wisconsin, faced a number of recall elections plus […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/","name":"What Happens After Wisconsin - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2016-04-04T19:02:36+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-04T19:02:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/04\/what_happens_after_wisconsin\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What Happens After Wisconsin"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}