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RUSH: Politico story: “Insiders to Trump: No Majority, No Nomination<\/a> — Republicans say it\u2019s 1,237 delegates or bust for Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n

Now, I have to tell you, before get into the details of this story, if you are interested in history, that has always been the way it is. In the primaries, you hit the number or exceed it, and the nomination is yours. If you don\u2019t hit the number, it isn\u2019t. It has never been the case. I don\u2019t think it has. I can\u2019t recall. The rules have never been changed to say that a plurality, if you get close enough, you\u2019ve got to hit the number or exceed it. That\u2019s always been the case. The powers that be in the Republican establishment are insisting it\u2019s gonna be that way this time.
\n“A majority of Republican insiders say Donald Trump should not get the GOP presidential nomination if he falls short of winning a majority of delegates — even if Trump amasses more than any of his opponents.” Of course you would expect them to say that. That\u2019s according to The Politico caucus. Do you know what The Politico caucus is? It\u2019s a bunch of establishment types.
\nIt\u2019s a “panel of strategists, activists and operatives in seven key swing states. Roughly 6-in-10 Republicans said the party should nominate another candidate if Trump finishes with a plurality, rather than the required 1,237.” That\u2019s some polling data. That\u2019s not The Politico caucus here. Well, maybe it is. Maybe it is the caucus.<\/p>\n

“Six-in-10 Republicans said the party should nominate another candidate if Trump finishes with a plurality –” Wait just a second. Hold it a minute. That\u2019s not right. That\u2019s essentially saying Trump\u2019s disqualified from whatever they do if he doesn\u2019t get to 1,237. Well, that\u2019s what it is. They may not want it to sound that way. How else would you interpret this? “Six-in-10 Republicans said the party should nominate another candidate if Trump finishes with a plurality, rather than the required 1,237.”<\/p>\n

Well, okay, let\u2019s play this out. Trump doesn\u2019t get 1,237, neither does Cruz, nobody else does, so therefore we go contested. Cruz and Trump are immediately disqualified from whatever the party does \u2019cause neither of \u2019em got to 1,237? Is that how they\u2019re gonna plan to work this? That\u2019s crazy. I know that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna work it. Do not misunderstand. I can\u2019t believe they\u2019re admitting it.<\/p>\n

But what they\u2019re saying is, if neither of these two get to 1,237 — \u2019cause they don\u2019t want either of these two, folks. They don\u2019t want Trump; they don\u2019t want Cruz. And so they\u2019re trying to say that if, in the primary, neither candidate gets 1,237, they\u2019re gonna take that as akin to the party rejecting both of them and then meaning, we gotta go to somebody entirely new, because the party did not choose either one of these.<\/p>\n

Well, why are either of these two gonna be disqualified from participating in the contested convention should that happen? But make no mistake about it, that\u2019s the only way to read this. These guys are not gonna get away with that. They may think they can. But Trump and Cruz are gonna have too many pledged and loyal delegates to just be told, “You know what? You guys, you\u2019ve been running since last summer. Some of you even longer than that. But, you know what? You didn\u2019t get 1,237, so you\u2019re disqualified. So we\u2019re gonna pick somebody who maybe didn\u2019t even run or we\u2019re gonna pick a guy who got four or five delegates. We\u2019re gonna pick a guy who ran but dropped out.” Are you gonna really try to tell these two guys that? But you know darn well that\u2019s what they\u2019re angling at.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to The Politico story. A Virginia Republicans, like every respondent, was surveyed anonymously here, was one of the Politico sources but he\u2019s anonymous. “‘Rules is rules. You have to get a majority,\u2019 said a Virginia Republican who, like all respondents, completed the survey anonymously. ‘That\u2019s the problem with our country: No one ever wins anymore.\u2019<\/p>\n

“The question is central to the GOP calculus before the Cleveland convention: Should the party award the nomination to the candidate who won the most delegates in total — as Trump himself has advocated — or stick to the rule that a candidate must win at least 1,237 delegates to be the nominee? The majority of insiders who want the party to choose someone else if Trump only wins a plurality of delegates said they are motivated by questions of electability, Trump\u00c2\u2019s capricious campaign style and personality.”<\/p>\n


\nWell, there you have it. Another Republican, this one from New Hampshire, said, “I\u2019m firmly in the \u00c2\u2018Never Trump\u00c2\u2019 camp. The GOP gets killed if he\u2019s the nominee. We probably get killed if he doesn\u2019t support a different nominee anyway. So if it makes no difference to the eventual outcome, my conscience will be clear going down with a responsible nominee instead.”<\/p>\n

So these guys are prepared to lose, exactly as I knew it. I have been forecasting it. These people are prepared to lose in order to save the establishment. Make no mistake about it. By saving the establishment they are saving themselves personally. They are willing to lose the presidential election for personal reasons is what these people are saying. I don\u2019t want to sit here and go nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, I told you so, but that\u2019s exactly who these people are.<\/p>\n

They owe their very existence to this establishment, to this club, whatever you want to call it. It\u2019s where their daily existence is. It\u2019s where their future is. It\u2019s where their standard of living is. It\u2019s where their power is. Everything that tells them they\u2019re special, everything that tells them they are the elite. And they are willing to hold onto that structure, even if it means losing the White House.<\/p>\n

Listen to this guy, “Hey, look, if we\u2019re gonna lose this election anyway, I want to lose with a clear consciousness, meaning I want to lose with somebody I could support rather than lose with somebody I don\u2019t.” But they\u2019re still talking about losing. That\u2019s the thing here that is inescapable.<\/p>\n

You know, I ran across a story, it\u2019s from McClatchy. It was published yesterday. And I was frankly stunned to see this. I mean, McClatchy news, I mean, they\u2019re way, way, way — I used to worked for McClatchy. That\u2019s who owned the Sacramento radio station when I first went out there, Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n

They have a story: “America to Establishment: Who the hell are you people?”<\/a> It\u2019s by David Lightman. It\u2019s datelined out of St. Louis. But, folks, it sounds exactly like a combination of a bunch of monologues from this program over the past couple of months. It details who the establishment is, why they are the establishment, how you get in, how you can\u2019t be thrown out, all of this.<\/p>\n

More importantly, it nails why people resent the establishment and why they\u2019ve had it, why they\u2019re no longer buffaloed by it. You know, one of the examples given in this story, Republicans and Democrats alike are asking themselves, who in the hell would pay Hillary Clinton a quarter million dollars to do a speech, and why won\u2019t I get paid a quarter million dollars to do a speech? They know full well what this is. They know full well.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say Goldman Sachs, she did a number of speeches for banks, and her going rate was a quarter million. When it came out the Hillary camp tried to say, hey, that\u2019s just what they offered, that\u2019s not what we asked. Of course they offered. They\u2019re buying you, Hillary. She admits they\u2019re buying her. But more importantly, you know what else this is? This is how members of the establishment help keep each other wealthy. It\u2019s how they keep each other established. It\u2019s how they keep each other in the game. You scratch my back, I\u2019ll scratch your back. This is purchasing loyalty. This is buying influence, because there\u2019s no way Hillary Clinton ought to get $250,000 for showing up and doing a 20-minute speech, a closed speech to a bunch of bankers.<\/p>\n

She won\u2019t release the transcripts of these speeches, and I\u2019ll tell you why, and she demanded that transcripts be made, she won\u2019t release them, because she\u2019s praising them to the hilt. Meanwhile, most of the people voting for her hate the banks, hate Wall Street, and she can\u2019t afford for it to become known that the banks and Wall Street are pretty much bankrolling the Democrat Party, not just her, but the entire Democrat Party structure.<\/p>\n

This idea that corporate America and Wall Street and Big Business and so forth are all part of the Republican machine is just BS. It hasn\u2019t been the case in years. And it\u2019s worse than the fact that just they support Democrats. There is now a very narrow, if it exists at all, line of distinction between government and business. They\u2019re in bed with one another. The only way Obamacare could be happening is if the hospitals, the insurance companies have bought in. And there\u2019s no way they would in a legitimate free market circumstance. But if you\u2019re gonna offer me access, if I\u2019m an insurance company or a hospital and you\u2019re gonna offer me access, and you\u2019re gonna pass a law mandating every American has to buy my product, hell, yes, I\u2019ll give you a campaign donation.<\/p>\n

Now, Mrs. Clinton can\u2019t afford for her voters — and certainly Crazy Bernie can\u2019t afford for his supporters — to find out just how in bed corporate America, Wall Street and the banks are with the Democrat Party. And this story in McClatchy details how people get this. They understand it, and they\u2019re fed up with it. And they\u2019re beginning to say, “Who the hell do you people think you are?” They don\u2019t trust them as far as they can throw them. In fact, the story says that the establishment is defined now as Wall Street, Washington, and Big Media.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of the establishment, and practically everybody sees the establishment as incestuous and isolated. And the fact that Hillary gets a quarter million dollars over and over again from this bank and that bank to do speech? People are not dumb. They know what\u2019s going on. There are two things going on. The banks are buying influence with somebody who might be elected president. They\u2019re buying influence with somebody who was secretary of state and still has contacts there. And not just at state, but around the world.<\/p>\n


\nBut they\u2019re also, in their own way, contributing to the Clintons\u2019 personal wealth. And maybe even further, they\u2019re contributing to the Clintons\u2019 foundation. Whatever they are contributing, they are making it possible for the Clintons to stay wealthy and rich, and this happens throughout the establishment. This is how you end up getting wealthy and staying wealthy without accomplishing much of anything other than becoming a member of the establishment.<\/p>\n

The story says: “What is the establishment? Nationally, eight in 10 people told a McClatchy-Morning Consult poll this month it includes members of Congress. Similar numbers cited the Democratic and Republican parties, political donors, Wall Street bankers and the mainstream media,” the Drive-By Media. “In essence, the establishment lives and thrives in a small world that lives and works in New York and Washington, on Wall Street, in Big Media, and in Politics, connected by the high-speed Acela corridor and often by mutual self-interest.<\/p>\n

“Many, perhaps most, do care deeply about the common good though they are anything but common themselves. They hire each other and each other\u2019s children.” Another example given in this story: There is nobody under the sun that doesn\u2019t know what happens when Hillary Clinton\u2019s kid gets hired by NBC for $600,000 a year and has never been on TV before. The story makes it clear that everybody — not in the establishment, the general public — knows full well what that is. That is everything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s buying influence with the Clintons. It\u2019s buying into Clinton good graces. It\u2019s buying access. And it\u2019s helping to make Chelsea Clinton rich. It\u2019s helping to keep the Clintons wealthy. And everybody knows their kid couldn\u2019t get such a deal. Their kid — who\u2019s never been on TV, never had any experience at it — would never be hired by NBC at $600,000 a year. It would never happen. And then when Chelsea is hired, and then the NBC suits go out and tell everyone what a great find they\u2019ve come up with — What a great discovery! What a natural talent! — nobody believes it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing interesting about all of this negative news about Cruz coming out, is somebody\u2019s getting worried about him. I mean, there\u2019s no reason for this stuff to be coming out the way it is, with such intensity and frequency, if people weren\u2019t concerned. But I have to tell you this. When the conversation moves to the Republican establishment and the rules for the convention, don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that the establishment is choosing between Cruz and Trump.<\/p>\n


\nThe establishment wants neither of them.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care where you look.<\/p>\n

You can look at Scott Walker\u2019s comments; you can look at any number of Republican establishment people. They are salivating for a contested convention. And they\u2019re making no bones about the fact that a contested convention gives them the opportunity to pick somebody other than Trump or Cruz. I have a Politico story here which pretty much indicates that the people running the Republican Party and the Republican convention are gonna operate under this premise that neither Trump nor Cruz is qualified to be the nominee because neither one of them got to 1,237 delegates.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story about how (paraphrased), “We\u2019re not gonna reward the candidate who gets the most delegates if he\u2019s short of 1,237. The rule is the rule, and it\u2019s always been the rule. You\u2019ve gotta get a majority, which is 1,237. And if you don\u2019t, we\u2019re not bending the rules to give you the nomination. You\u2019ve gotta get there, and if you don\u2019t, then it\u2019s contested.” Okay, fine. You don\u2019t even have to read between the lines in this Politico story.<\/p>\n

It is very clear that the powerbrokers at the convention — the RNC, wherever they are — are telegraphing the fact that they think neither Cruz nor Trump should be the nominee if neither of them gets to 1,237. That\u2019s going to be treated as a defeat. It\u2019s going to be treated as a rejection. The party clearly wants to look at no candidate getting 1,237 as a rejection; that voters will essentially be saying, “We don\u2019t want any of these people if none of them got to 1,237.”<\/p>\n

The party is going to then take it from there and act on the assumption that I\u2019ve just stated, and then nominate their own guy, whoever it is. Take your pick. Jeb, Paul Ryan, any number of people will throw their hats in the ring. Kasich (which is what he\u2019s angling for in all of this). “But, Rush, I thought you just said that if they didn\u2019t win they\u2019re…” Well, they will. But Kasich will not be included in that because he never even got close, so it will not even be looked upon that Kasich has been rejected like Cruz and Trump have been rejected.<\/p>\n


\nYou can think that I\u2019m overanalyzing this, but I will caution you not to. You know as well as I do that the power brokers in the Republican Party don\u2019t like Trump or Cruz. They especially don\u2019t like Cruz. They\u2019re much more open to Trump. But if they had their way, it won\u2019t be either of them, and they will happily lose the election. They\u2019re on record as saying that in any number of stories. Some of them by name, some of them speaking anonymously, but they\u2019re making it abundantly clear that they\u2019re perfectly happy losing the election while maintaining the existing party structure.<\/p>\n

If losing the election and maintaining the current party structure, i.e., establishment, if that\u2019s what it takes to hold onto the structure then losing the election is fine them, and that\u2019s the problem with these people from the beginning of the day to the end. They don\u2019t care about winning. It\u2019s not their priority. Their own personal preferences, their desires are what matter to them. And that\u2019s been the problem all along.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program and I want to get into just a little bit of detail. It\u2019s a Wall Street Journal story. Headline: “Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump <\/a>— Donald Trump beat Sen. Ted Cruz earlier this month in Louisiana\u00c2\u2019s Republican presidential primary by 3.6 percentage points, but the Texan may wind up with as many as 10 more delegates,” than Trump in Louisiana.<\/p>\n

The reason is, “Mr. Cruz\u00c2\u2019s supporters also seized five of Louisiana\u00c2\u2019s six slots on the three powerful committees that will write the rules and platform at the Republican National Convention and mediate disputes over delegates\u00c2\u2019 eligibility this summer in Cleveland.”<\/p>\n

So five out of six slots on three committees that Cruz somehow ended up with because of the primary nets him 10 more delegates than Trump plus additional power over delegate allocation in certain circumstances at the convention, all because of this revised look at Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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