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RUSH: Did I not tell you? Did I tell you, right here it is in the Wall Street Journal: “Donald Trump Makes Pitch to Democrats in South Carolina.”<\/a> That had to be the explanation for Trump\u2019s strategy on Saturday night. It had to be. South Carolina is an open primary.<\/p>\n

Polling data\u2019s all over the place, by the way. The internal Bush poll for which there are two sources — so somebody in the Bush camp is leaking polling data, \u2019cause this is internal stuff — and the internal polling of candidates we hardly ever see, and, in this case, it\u2019s not all that close to the public polls that we have. In the public polls, Trump still has a reasonable lead. In the internal Bush poll he\u2019s only got two-point lead, which is margin of error tie. It is 26-24 in the internal. That would explain — Trump probably has the same data — that would explain Trump going after Cruz, and he did yesterday, the press conference. Got those sound bites, as I promised. He doubled down on it all today. And then backed off and then tripled down on it. Says he\u2019s gonna sue Cruz, now he\u2019s not sure if he\u2019s gonna sue Cruz.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, Trump is making a play for voters other than Republicans. Now, isn\u2019t it fascinating, because let me ask you a little pop quiz. Who, in the Republican primary, started out by claiming happily and joyfully that he was gonna win the Republican nomination without the base? Exactly right, Mr. Snerdley. It was Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush and the donor class were gonna win this nomination despite the base. Remember this, now? And isn\u2019t it fascinating that the guy who\u2019s actually trying to pull that off and may have some success at it is Donald Trump.<\/line><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it amazing the way things turn. Yet Jeb and the donor boys were gonna go out and just flood this primary with money. They were gonna divide the conservative candidates in the race. They were gonna divide their money, divide their voter support. And the old rule of politics, that he has the money wins, Jeb was gonna end up scorching the field simply because they wouldn\u2019t have anywhere near the amount of money he did.<\/p>\n

And look, Jeb is in last place depending on the poll you look at, and there hasn\u2019t been any significant upward movement in any way, shape, manner, or form. He brings out former President George W. Bush yesterday. And I don\u2019t know. <\/line>Have you seen some of the comparisons? Some of the comparisons are why isn\u2019t W. running again, this guy is on top of it, this guy comes off as a confident cowboy, all kinds of rave reviews about W. out there, but I\u2019m hearing people say that the contrast from W. to Jeb is not that good. Anyway, I find it curious, that they were gonna race to victory without the base, and Trump is the guy doing it.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, in Trump\u2019s case, it\u2019s not the original — or maybe it is. You know, maybe Trump has all along known that he was going to make this move in open-state primaries. I told you for the longest time here, Trump\u2019s constituency is not just members of the Republican base. It\u2019s not just conservatives. It\u2019s from all over the place. A lot of independents, a lot of moderates, a lot of what they call Reagan Democrats make up the Trump coalition. But this internal Bush poll, I\u2019m sure Trump has access, makes it look like that he\u2019s not gonna have the slam-dunk South Carolina victory. Cruz creeping up so hence the attacks on Cruz. And for good measure he throws in similar attacks on Rubio.<\/p>\n

But it is clear that that\u2019s what Trump\u2019s trying to do. Now, it could be self-preservation or it could be a desire just to smoke the field. If he wins big in South Carolina with a broad-based coalition, then he pretty much thinks that he may be able to hammer the final nail in the coffin, or it could be that he has to do this in order to win and the win might not be that big, because as I say, the polling is all over the place. But the internal Bush poll reported in two different places, there isn\u2019t any other pool that has Cruz anywhere near that close. Cruz is gaining, Cruz is outperforming in every primary election, he\u2019s outperforming where he stands in the polls. So we\u2019ll get into that in detail here in just a second.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let\u2019s move on to the Republican race here. There are a series of stories on polls, and some are conflicting. Some are confirming. Let\u2019s see. Here we go. First up is the Columbia, South Carolina, The State newspaper poll<\/a>. Donald Trump is still leading in the poll. This is after the debate, by the way — after, as they call it, “the explosive Republican debate on Saturday night in Greenville, Trump still leads. The race for second place appears to be narrowing behind Trump, who has 35% after the debate.”<\/p>\n

Behind Trump\u2019s 35%, Rubio and Ted Cruz are tied now at 18%. Now, Trump almost doubles them individually. If you combine Cruz and Rubio, they lead Trump by a point; and that is interesting. Keep that in mind. Cruz and Rubio in South Carolina, The State poll, each at 18; Trump is at 36%. So you have… Well, another way to look at it on the Trump side is that 35% of the electorate in South Carolina, the Republicans. These are Republicans being polled, and Trump\u2019s at 35%, and all the other Republicans are picking up the remaining 65%.<\/p>\n

And two of them, Cruz and Rubio, combined are at 36%. Public Policy Polling<\/a> has the same results. In fact, it might be a Public Policy Polling poll. Yes, I\u2019m sorry. The State is where this was published. It\u2019s PPP, Public Policy Polling, the left-wing polling outfit out of North Carolina. So Trump 35%, Cruz and Rubio 18% each. On the Democrat side, Hillary leads Bernie Sanders by 21 points. “Sanders is making gains among black voters but still trails by…” Well, it can\u2019t be 40, if Hillary has a 21-point margin.<\/p>\n

In this story from Breitbart… Let\u2019s see if this is the same poll. Can\u2019t tell. I guess we\u2019ll have to read it together here to find out. “A new poll in South Carolina finds Donald Trump maintaining his large lead among likely Republican voters, but also shows Trump slipping slightly since Friday, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Gov. John Kasich edge higher. The new poll was conducted on Sunday by the South Carolina House Republican caucus and follows their previous poll released Friday, ahead of Saturday\u2019s Republican debate in Charleston.”<\/p>\n

The Sunday poll also conducted after the Republican debate on Saturday night. “In the new Monday poll, Trump leads the Republican field with 33% of the vote,” So over at Public Policy Polling he\u2019s at 35. In the South Carolina GOP poll, he\u2019s at 33. That\u2019s “down two points since Friday. <\/line>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rubio are tied for second with 14%. Cruz is down two points since Friday and Rubio is up one point. Former Gov. Jeb Bush is in 4th with 13% support, edging out Gov. John Kasich, who has 10%. Ben Carson is last, with just 6%” of the vote.<\/line><\/p>\n

So what can we take away? Well, what we take away here is that in the immediate aftermath of the Saturday night debate, no measurable negative impact on Trump has been measured. But some people say that you need to wait two or three days for something like that to settle in and look at polls taken two or three days after a debate to have a more accurate portrayal of people\u2019s opinions on it. Folks, you remember when Trump said that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose any of his support? I think he\u2019s fairly close to being accurate there.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve spent hours on this program explaining why that is, explaining his appeal. There\u2019s a guy in the New York Post named Mark Cunningham with another stab at explaining Trump today, which I\u2019ll share with you in just a moment. But as I said yesterday, if this performance on Saturday night… Now, let\u2019s sum it up again. This was a Republican debate. We had the front-runner extolling the virtues of Planned Parenthood. That\u2019s never been done before. I don\u2019t even think John Kasich would do it. We\u2019ve never had that.<\/p>\n

Did Romney do it? Did Huntsman do it? I can\u2019t remember. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever happened. I don\u2019t think a Republican front-runner has ever extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood, as clearly and loudly as Trump did. Trump also went after, in South Carolina, a revered former president, George W. Bush, who still maintains an 80, 83% approval rating there. He not only went after Bush, he went after him as didn\u2019t keep the country safe, the Twin Towers came down while he was president, and he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

I mean, he went into this debate and it was clear what he was doing, to me. It\u2019s an open primary; Democrats and independents can vote. Trump needs them or wants them, one of the two. Either Cruz is gaining ground rapidly and he needs those votes or he wants those votes to just swamp the rest of the field in the Saturday night primary and put the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. It won\u2019t be over if he wins big on Saturday, but it would be closer.<\/line><\/p>\n

But he\u2019s also signaling a bunch of other things that, as the front-runner, to say these things — and if it didn\u2019t hurt… My point yesterday, I\u2019ll repeat it: If it didn\u2019t hurt, I think it demonstrates even more so the disconnect between the establishment and the people, Washington DC, and the rest of the country expect. And I don\u2019t think the establishment even now has any idea the rage, the anger, the betrayal, which is what it is.<\/p>\n

The majority of people in this country feel a profound sense of betrayal by the Republican Party, and there\u2019s a deep resentment that a bunch of faceless, nameless money brokers, lobbyists, and donors are shaping the future of the country by virtue of neutering the Republican Party. And the outrage at that is profound and deep to the point that if this doesn\u2019t hurt Trump, it\u2019s just gonna put an exclamation point on how angry, how ticked off, on both sides of the aisle, people are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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