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RUSH: Donald Trump is dominating the Republican field in New Hampshire. This is from The Politico<\/a>: “Donald Trump commands the field in New Hampshire, according to the results of a Bloomberg Politics\/St. Anselm College poll of Republican voters in the state released Wednesday morning. Trump earned 24 percent compared to 17 percent for Ben Carson.” You know, Carly Fiorina, what happened here? Carly Fiorina, after everybody skyrockets into second place or third place depending on the poll, and then after you didn\u2019t hear anything about her. I mean, there was some negative publicity about her time at Hewlett-Packard and lucent and so forth, but man, it\u2019s like she\u2019s become invisible. She did eke out in a couple of polls a position in double digits. She\u2019s back down now to six, seven, 8%, back down into single digits. <\/p>\n

\"original\"The Politico says that this New Hampshire poll “represents a blow to Bush, whose favorability rating in the state dropped to its lowest level in almost a year of polling despite a big ad buy from the Right to Rise super PAC supporting him. About 57 percent said they had a favorable view of the former governor, down from 59 percent in May and 61 percent last November.”<\/line><\/p>\n

So Jeb is losing ground in the all-important state of New Hampshire. “Asked a series of questions about the perceived shortcoming of the candidates in the field, 53 percent said they were less supportive of Bush because of his advocacy of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.”<\/p>\n

Companion story from the AP: “Trump\u2019s Republican Critics Pushing for GOP-Backed Takedown <\/a>— Don\u2019t expect Democrats to take down Donald Trump. If the GOP\u2019s baffled establishment wants to dismiss their party\u2019s billionaire presidential front-runner, it appears they\u2019ll have to do it themselves.” Right, \u2019cause there aren\u2019t any Democrats attacking Trump, except constantly. What is this, they\u2019re gonna have to take him down themselves? Democrats all over the place are attacking Trump. There are a lot of people attacking Trump. <\/p>\n

You know what\u2019s amazing to me? When is the last time — seriously now, folks. I\u2019m just throwing an observation of mine out there to you. When is the last time you remember a political party working so hard to bring down its own front-runner? Now, there have been times where parties have tried to take out other candidates — (interruption) Well, when? When\u2019s the last time? (interruption). Was Reagan ever the front-runner in \u201976 that they tried to take down? I know they tried to prevent Reagan from becoming the front-runner and at the \u201976 convention in Kansas City, I was there, we all know what happened. <\/p>\n

I mean, there\u2019s no doubt that the Republican didn\u2019t want any part of Reagan in \u201976 and they bit the bullet in 1980. But have you ever seen, I mean, Trump is a far and away front-runner. Have you ever, in your life, do you recall a party, either one or name your pick of some oddball party, try to take down their own front run? Never seen anything like this before, have you?<\/p>\n

Luis Gutierrez, Democrat, Illinois, big proponent of amnesty. Big, big, big Obama supporter. Is launching an effort to force Saturday Night Live to cancel Donald Trump\u2019s appearance. This is in the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>. “Representative Luis Gutierrez, Democrat, Illinois, a national crusader for immigrant reform, launched a drive yesterday to dump Trump from his November 7th Saturday Night Live hosting gig. ‘Having Trump headline Saturday Night Live is a level of endorsement that says to America that every hateful and racist thing Trump has said since he launched his campaign is acceptable and no big deal,\u2019 Gutierrez said in a letter to Stephen Burke, CEO of NBC Universal, and to Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So having Hillary on, no, that wasn\u2019t any big deal. And no, that wasn\u2019t an endorsement of Hillary. No, no, no. What an admission. And, by the way, Luis Gutierrez is not the only one trying to get Trump taken off Saturday Night Live. There are two or three other groups, all Hispanic in nature, Latino, are doing their best to take Trump out. <\/p>\n

ABC News: “Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes<\/a>.” It\u2019s just another poll, and it just shows that Trump is gaining in strength, depth, and durability. Now, what I\u2019m looking for? What did I do with this? There is a huge story. I thought I had it in the Stack. I\u2019m gonna have to find it in a different Stack. You know our old friend Mike Murphy, the consultant? Mike Murphy is running… He\u2019s either running the Jeb campaign or Jeb Super PAC, one of the two. Murphy… There\u2019s a story either about Murphy…<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s the Politico (I know I had it right here) in which he just launches into Trump, just launches and made the case that Jeb\u2019s gonna be the nominee. It\u2019s just a matter of time. They\u2019re sitting right where they want to sit. They\u2019re right where they want to be. They\u2019ve got all this money. They haven\u2019t spent nearly what they\u2019ve got. They\u2019re gonna be ready to unload this money once it gets down to real voting time starting in February, and Trump isn\u2019t gonna have a chance, and the American people aren\u2019t gonna want Trump. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller. Jeb\u2019s the only guy with any chance, any hope for the Republican Party. I mean, it really is the inside-the-Beltway consultants class and the establishment just launching a giant salvo fight back, and I\u2019m gonna find that. I thought I had it in the Stack. I\u2019m sorry. I got a lot of stacks here. And I have sound bites along these lines. Brit Hume, also an establishment voice on Fox News. In fact, grab that one. What would this be? That\u2019s right. Audio sound bite 15. This had to be tough for Brit Hume to say, but this was Megyn Kelly\u2019s show. You know, let me take the break. We\u2019re getting up close to the break time. Let me find that Murphy piece. We\u2019ll get to that sound bite we get back here. Don\u2019t go away.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Brit Hume. This was last night in The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly. She said, “What do you make of the Byron York piece today suggesting the Republican establishment is preparing for war against Trump, saying, ‘If we have to take him down, we will. The negative ads will start and we\u2019ll go after him in Iowa. We\u2019ll go after him in New Hampshire. We\u2019re not letting this man get the GOP nomination.'” That\u2019s what. I mean, I\u2019ve never, ever seen a political party try to take down its front-runner. <\/p>\n

I mean, not like this. And I don\u2019t care what you think of Trump, but he is the front-runner, and you would think the Republicans want to win. Now, they were this vicious about Reagan; they just never said it. (interruption) No, no, that\u2019s true. In 1976, 1980, Republican establishment was just as opposed to Reagan as they are to talk radio or whatever manifestation of conservatism today. They just didn\u2019t say it publicly, like they\u2019re now saying it about Trump, and I\u2019ve got this Murphy piece here which ran in The Politico. Anyway, here is Brit Hume\u2019s reply…<\/p>\n

HUME: It\u2019s become clear — because it\u2019s getting late, Megyn — that his lead has persisted so long, you\u2019re looking at the kind of percentage of the vote that in a place like Iowa or perhaps New Hampshire could be the winning percentage. So you posit Donald Trump having won Iowa and New Hampshire — and\/or New Hampshire — and going into South Carolina where he has a lot of support. You\u2019re looking at somebody who\u2019s got a tremendous head of steam and might become impossible to stop, uhh, with a disaffected, uhh, Republican electorate. So his nomination now becomes something that everybody has to say is possible.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s new ground. Brit Hume is a voice of the establishment thinking in Washington. So now they\u2019re coming to grips, “Hey, this might really be happening.” They expected Trump to have dropped out by now or to have made a gaffe that would force him out. They\u2019re still hoping for that. Many of them are still hoping that there\u2019s some giant gaffe, something so embarrassing that not even his lunatic supporters would tolerate. In fact, do you know what the latest parlor game is among inside-the-Beltway establishment journalists? <\/p>\n

They are beginning to… You may see these pretty soon. They are commissioning stories, man-on-the-street stories, going out and finding Trump supporters at a Trump rally and asking them one question: “What would it take for you to stop supporting Donald Trump?” You will begin to see some of these stories. (interruption) I have no idea what the answers are gonna be. I haven\u2019t seen one yet. I\u2019m postulating here that this is going to be part of the effort. They\u2019re gonna dispatch and commission these stories, and the stories are gonna serve as research as well as, quote\/unquote, “journalism.” <\/p>\n

“What would Trump have to do? What would have to happen to get you to drop your support for Donald Trump?” Because the establishment has about pulled all of its hair out. I mean, they\u2019re about run out of options here. Now they\u2019re talking about throwing all this money at Trump starting in the Hawkeye Cauci, then moving into New Hampshire. By the way, Trump is drawing even bigger crowds than the mainstream media is reporting. And Trump has developed a trick that he uses with the media before his appearances begin designed to get them to actually show how big his crowds are. They\u2019re underselling and understating his crowds, in some cases about as much as half.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Politico<\/a>. Bush ally Mike Murphy. He is the man in charge of the Jeb Bush super PAC. He granted an interview to Bloomberg Politics. It was published yesterday. The name of the super PAC, by the way, is Right to Rise USA. Mike Murphy, a traditional inside-the-Beltway Republican establishment consultant. He has represented John McCain. He has represented and run the campaigns of Arnold Schwarzenegger and of Mitt Romney. Just FYI. <\/line><\/p>\n

In this interview with Bloomberg Politics, Mike Murphy said “the prospect of a Trump presidency as one of a ‘false zombie front-runner.'” Mike Murphy says of Donald Trump, “He\u00c2\u2019s dead politically. He\u2019ll never be president of the United States, ever. By definition I don\u2019t think you can be a front-runner if you\u2019re totally unelectable. I think there\u2019s there an a priori logic problem in that.” It says here that Senator Ted Cruz “stands to gain the most from a potential Trump collapse,” but Murphy said, “Nope, nope, nope, that\u2019s a ‘minority lane\u2019 of voters.” <\/p>\n

No, the only viable candidate the Republican Party has is Jeb Bush. And as Jeb\u2019s campaign manager de facto, Murphy says we\u2019re right where we want to be. We\u2019re being overlooked. Everybody is thinking we\u2019re blown out, have no chance. Trump\u2019s a false zombie. Nobody\u2019s gonna vote for this guy for president. It isn\u2019t gonna happen. We\u2019re gonna be in there to pick up the mess, and we\u2019re gonna start when they start counting votes in February in Iowa. It\u2019s much more in depth than that, and it is pointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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