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

RUSH: Let\u2019s start with Trump for a minute. I want to try to mix some of this in. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Fox News poll out and Trump is at 25%. Now, a lot of Drive-Bys and a lot of political analysts have been waiting for this particular poll or one like it. Since the first debate, they have been invested in the fact that that first debate actually was a death knell for Trump. All of the immediate polling after that first debate was online polling or telephone polling, and a lot of the <\/line>Drive-Bys didn\u2019t trust it. They wanted to wait for an actual poll by a news network, and Fox is out, and Trump is up at 25%. <\/line><\/p>\n

Ben Carson, a skyrocketing jump at 12%. Do you remember the day after the debate I told you who the left said won that debate?<\/a> Who? Who? Who\u2019d I tell you won? I played two sound bites, you said, “This is who the left thinks won the debate.” John Kasich. The left thought John Kasich won the debate, and you know why? Because John Kasich finally put on display the fact that Republicans do care about people. That was the postdebate consensus of scientists, political scientists analyzing the Republican debate. Well, Kasich ends up at 4% in the Fox poll, and he\u2019s tied there with Rubio. <\/p>\n

Now, Rubio and Kasich were thought by postdebate analysts to have done really well, and accordingly, would really do well and maybe even skyrocket in polls. In the Fox News poll they have Christie at 3%, Rand Paul at 3%. Carly Fiorina went up enough from 2% to 5% to get herself in the next debate. Scott Walker dropped three. Huckabee dropped three. Jeb Bush dropped three. Those three are: Bush is at nine, Huckabee, Walker at six, Ted Cruz up four to 10%, Carson up five to 12%. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, these results “closely mirror all of the telephone polling and online polling that the consensus of political scientists rejected while they were waiting for this poll.” And there\u2019s sadness out there. I mean, they really were thinking Trump was gonna bomb. Snerdley, I\u2019m gonna ask all of you a question. What is it about…? Well, that\u2019s not fair. I have the answer, and I know what the answer is. Trump hasn\u2019t faded. He\u2019s not shown any signs up of fading yet.<\/p>\n

He goes on Meet the Press yesterday and, have to tell you, the establishment is shocked, angry, saddened. He came off as presidential. He had a serious immigration plan. And the key to Trump\u2019s immigration plan is that it almost dovetails exactly with public opinion on immigration. You know, it\u2019s kind of stunning. We got 16 Republican candidates now, and there\u2019s only one of them — only one — with a unique view or different view on immigration. It\u2019s Trump. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious that that issue is the foundational issue for Trump, and I think for Trump to blow this he would have to change immigration. He\u2019d have to backtrack, which he\u2019s not gonna do. But I\u2019m just saying, all the other stuff… You know, “Is he conservative\/is he liberal?” I still don\u2019t think that people in what we call the establishment (some call it the ruling class) inside-the-Beltway get it.<\/line><\/p>\n

Both parties, conservative-liberal, Republican-Democrat, I don\u2019t think they have the slightest idea what the vast majority of people in this country think about immigration and what\u2019s happening to the country, and they don\u2019t want any part of it. And of course the establishment is seen as wanting to ramrod their view of immigration down everybody\u2019s throat. Trump\u2019s the only guy standing up against it, and every Republican that has been elected since 2010 has been elected in part to stop it. <\/p>\n

You know, if just one of these Republican candidates — just one of them — had come out forcefully for America on this immigration business, Trump wouldn\u2019t even exist as a candidate. Well, he might exist, but he wouldn\u2019t have such a free road in this one issue. It\u2019s really… When you study this — really not study, when you observe it — it\u2019s amazing. Sixteen people are running for the presidency, and 15 of them are perceived…<\/p>\n

“Perceived.” I know they would argue with this, but 15 of them are perceived to have essentially the same policy on immigration. One of them is entirely different from the other 15, and he\u2019s the one who\u2019s leading. Now, don\u2019t you think people inside the Beltway should be able to look at this and put two and two together and figure out what is causing this? They can chalk it up to celebrity, they can chalk it up to pop culture, they can chalk it up to circus.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not. It is due to substance and it is due to immigration, and with Trump releasing this comprehensive immigration plan yesterday… You know, all these questions of who\u2019s a real conservative have been obviated here. Even that question, “Who is that a real conservative?” is up for grabs now. I\u2019ve got a couple pieces in the Stack of Stuff here today. I think one\u2019s at Town Hall. I forget where the other one is. They\u2019re conservatives, conservative media, and they just excoriate the inside-the-Beltway so-called conservative establishment. <\/p>\n

One of them really takes after George Will, \u2019cause I guess George Will really took after Trump last Thursday in a piece. And Arthur Brooks. We\u2019ll have the sound bite on this. Arthur Brooks, American Enterprise Institute, was on Fox News Sunday yesterday. Now, the American Enterprise Institute has long been thought of as a conservative think tank. Cato is Libertarian. Brookings is to the left. Heritage is conservative. AEI is also thought to be conservative. <\/p>\n

Arthur Brooks yesterday is talking about (are you ready for this?) the low-information voters supporting Trump. I saw that, and I really stopped on a dime and did a double-take. Look at who they think low-information voters are inside the Beltway! You know, when we talk about “low-information voters” here, what do we mean? Who do we mean? We mean mind-numbed Democrat voters. Mind-numbed, pop culture voters who are brain-dead who are not curious.<\/line><\/p>\n

Who don\u2019t think, who simply absorb whatever they see presented to them by various mainstream media sources and believe it. Well, we learn… (interruption) We learn… I used the term “low-information voter.” Arthur Brooks… (interruption) No, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not getting on anybody for copying that. I\u2019m not that petty. Low-information voters out there… (interruption) Yes, it\u2019s my concoction. Fine. Everybody\u2019s using it. Cool. <\/p>\n

The point is, look who they think the low-information voters are. Look who the inside-the-Beltway people think the LIVs are. You people! According to Arthur Brooks, you who support Trump are the mind-numbed, uneducated, uninformed low-information voters, and they are confident that you\u2019re gonna see the light at some point. That\u2019s what I meant about this been a barnburner weekend. This is a blow-the-top-off-of-it weekend.<\/p>\n

By the time we get through analyzing it and adding my own unique flair, color, analysis to all this. But remember Peter Jennings? After the 1994 election in which Republicans won the House for the first time in 40 years, Peter Jennings did a radio commentary and said that the voters had a childlike “temper tantrum.” Remember that? That\u2019s how we explained the Republicans, Mr. Newt and the gang winning the House for the first time in 40 years.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t due to substance. Of course not! It wasn\u2019t due to anything that really mattered. It was just: No, ah, the kids “had a temper tantrum.” That\u2019s exactly how these guys sounded on Fox News Sunday yesterday talking about the people that support Trump. You\u2019re having a temper tantrum. They\u2019re in an utter state of denial here. Now, there are pieces being written by conservative intellectuals explaining who the real conservatives are and who the real conservatives aren\u2019t and what makes a real conservative and what constitutes a fake conservative. <\/p>\n

And if you support Trump, you are a fake conservative, and you are dangerous, and somehow you\u2019re gonna have to be rescued and brought back into the fold here. But you are under the spell of some Svengali (i.e., Trump). <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Trump\u2019s on Meet the Press yesterday, and scared everybody. Looked presidential. Sounded serious. Had a multipoint immigration plan. It was serious. It was intelligent. And the inside-the-Beltway establishment is beside itself. Trump\u2019s immigration proposal is not just comprehensive. More importantly, what Trump\u2019s immigration proposal does… (laughing) It just totally repudiates the “bipartisan approach” that we\u2019re getting from both parties inside the Beltway that has been the desire of both parties inside the Beltway for years. <\/p>\n

And everybody knows that it is an immigration plan that is going to result in millions more registered Democrats. Common-sense people, common-sense citizens have never understood it. Policy-wise, it hasn\u2019t made any sense for the Republican Party to support amnesty and make a policy that\u2019s the mirror of what the Democrats want. Policy-wise it makes no sense, party-wise it makes no sense. It only makes sense when you learn that it is what big-money donors want. <\/line><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when he learn who it is that\u2019s really running the Republican Party (and the Democrat Party party too): The money people. Now, we talked about this Friday. That\u2019s not new, really. Money\u2019s always been a determining and deciding factor. What\u2019s new is that the parties are no longer making even any pretense of satisfying public opinion, being on the same page as public opinion. It is governance against the will of the people on the premise that the people are too stupid to know the right thing to do here. So now you, who don\u2019t support amnesty, are considered low-information voters right along with the people we consider on the left as low-information voters. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me briefly summarize the Trump immigration proposal that happened on Meet the Press yesterday. Do not doubt me on this. The release of the Fox News poll and Trump\u2019s appearance yesterday has done more to shake up the inside-the-Beltway establishment than anybody realizes. <\/p>\n

People assumed that they were already pretty shaken up, and they were, but now they\u2019re starting to get to the point now where Trump could literally genuinely win this thing. They\u2019re changing tunes from when\u2019s he gonna drop out, when\u2019s he gonna step in it, to, “Uh-oh.” And I think, you know, I\u2019ll say it again, I don\u2019t think these people have any idea just how angry, frightened, fearful, a pretty big majority of the people in this country are, that we are losing the country, and we\u2019re losing it because of immigration, couple other things, but immigration\u2019s the biggie.<\/line><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many times I have referenced this over the years, and I\u2019m by no means the only one. Look at California. If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California. There isn\u2019t a single Republican in statewide office. There never will be in the future. It\u2019s not gonna happen. The Republican Party practically doesn\u2019t exist statewide. The economy in California, you talk about inequality, the haves and have-nots, it\u2019s no more pronounced anywhere in the country than in California.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to go back that far where the Republican Party owned it. Routinely elected governors, those governors became presidential candidates. And I\u2019ll tell you when you can tie it to. You can tie the end of the Republican Party in California to 1986, and that was the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty immigration bill. We\u2019re talking back then 3.9 million illegal aliens granted amnesty. Since then it\u2019s been curtains for the Republican Party, which means constant victory for the Democrat Party. They have shaped that state, and it\u2019s a mess. And it\u2019s a harbinger of where we\u2019re going nationwide. <\/p>\n

The people of this country do not want that and they\u2019re scared to death of losing their country, and immigration is the top of the reasons why they think it can happen. And they see both parties in cahoots to make it happen, and they don\u2019t understand it. People that love America do not understand this. I mean, even when you tell \u2019em, “Well, big-money donors say this because they want X, Y, and Z,” it still doesn\u2019t make any sense. How does that trump patriotism? How does all that matter more to these people, elected officials, than patriotism, love of country, America, shining city on a hill and all that, why does that not matter anymore? <\/p>\n

People are a combination of angry, scared. And there isn\u2019t a single candidate for president addressing the issue in a way that resonates with the American people, particularly Republican primary voters, not one, until Donald Trump comes along. And now Trump is illustrating his support, illustrates for any who wish to pay honest attention, what is thought of the whole concept of illegal immigration and amnesty and the future of the country it represents. And people don\u2019t want it. They\u2019ve said so in every which way they can, time and time again, and they\u2019re not being listened to. <\/p>\n

At the same time, Republican officials, Republican Party officials, inside-the-Beltway officials tell us that we can\u2019t win the White House anymore without getting additional votes besides just Republican votes. We can\u2019t win anymore with only Republican votes. We\u2019re too small. We need to branch out. We need to reach out. We need to expand our base beyond just you conservative Christians and the rest. We need to get Democrats. We need to get independents. <\/line><\/p>\n

Okay, fine, well, guess what, who\u2019s doing that? Who is expanding the party beyond what it is normally thought to be? Trump, of all people. And yet they\u2019re lowering the hammer on the guy each and every day, when it is Donald Trump who is executing what the Republican Party says they need to win. The problem is, Trump\u2019s not getting the people the Republican Party wants to build their coalition. But, I mean, the Republicans all say we can\u2019t win with just our base. Well, if that\u2019s true, then you need to branch out. <\/p>\n

You know, I need to include Ted Cruz in the Trump group on anti-amnesty and so forth. Cruz and Trump. The others might say they belong there, too, but that\u2019s only after they\u2019ve made adjustments in their original support for an amnesty-like program. But Trump\u2019s immigration plan, back to it, before I read it specifically from his website. You know, he wants to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. He wants to deport all undocumented immigrants. They have to go. <\/p>\n

Now, the inside-the-Beltway people, when they hear that, they cringe, “Oh, my God, don\u2019t say that\u2019s what Republicans — oh, God.” People are standing up and cheering. They don\u2019t want their country given away, for crying out loud! And to pay people at the same time. He wants to do away with, rescind Obama\u2019s executive amnesty program. He wants to triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in America. He wants to revert to the tariff system that existed prior to the passage of NAFTA. And he would end the practice of granting US citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. Bye-bye anchor babies. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m telling you, that one has people standing up and cheering. He wants to make changes in the 14th Amendment so that that cannot happen. We are cooking our own goose by granting this privilege, and he wants to do away with it. He is in the majority of thinking, as polled, the American people. He presented this immigration plan yesterday on Meet the Press, and as I say, the Inside-the-Beltway crowd was shocked. The media was shocked, A, that he had a plan. B, that he has a campaign staff that\u2019s made up of professionals. D, that he\u2019s able to present this in a way that looked presidential. And, E, that he was on Meet the Press looking and sounding presidential. <\/p>\n

None of this was supposed to happen. The experts all told us Trump would be gone by now, or on the way out, if not gone. “Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again<\/a> — The three core principles of Trump\u2019s plan. When politicians talk about ‘immigration reform\u2019 they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders. The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.<\/p>\n

“Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first — not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.”<\/line><\/p>\n

(imitating Trump) “And if we can\u2019t do it, then look at the Chinese. Look at their wall. They got a Great Wall. They built it, how long is that wall? If they can do it, we can do it. If they got the Great Wall, we got the greatest wall. We can build a greater wall, we can do anything we want. We can do it. Who says we can\u2019t do it?” People stand up and cheer. <\/p>\n

“2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced,” or they\u2019re worthless. “3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.” And he goes through the point-by-point details, reasons, analysis, and all that, and it was right on the money. <\/p>\n

Byron York has a piece in the DC Examiner: “Are Trump\u2019s Immigration Views Out of the Mainstream?”<\/a> What York did, he went back and he looked at an — oh, Jeff Sessions, by the way, is one of the leading participants of in the preparation of Trump\u2019s multipoint immigration plan. Sessions is great on this and has been a lone voice in the Senate. Well, next to Cruz and Mike Lee. I mean, I don\u2019t mean to leave these guys out because they have been front and center. <\/p>\n

But Byron York found a recent academic paper published by Stanford Professor David Broockman and Berkeley PhD candidate Douglas Ahler an it “suggests a majority of the public\u2019s views on immigration are closer to Trump\u2019s than to the advocates of comprehensive immigration reform.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just another way of stating it, another way of writing it, but it\u2019s another way of illustrating that Trump\u2019s not the oddball. Trump\u2019s ideas are not fringe, are not outliers, they are mainstream. They represent the views and the attitudes of the people who make this country work. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, one thing here about the Byron York story. This is really interesting. In a nutshell, Byron York says that this academic study by the two guys — one from Stanford, one a PhD candidate from Berkeley. They offered seven positions. Position number one was being open border. In a poll, a survey of thousands of Americans, they offered them seven options, seven things to choose from and list them in order of importance, the American people. <\/p>\n

The first option: Open borders. Let everybody in. Number seven was the most extreme: Build a wall and deport everybody. Okay? That was the range in this survey that these two academics sought public opinion on. Now, follow me on this. Again, number one is open borders: Let anybody from anywhere in and pay them whatever to come. I mean, just the extreme of open-borders immigration. Number seven was build a wall and deport all the illegals. Find \u2019em, round \u2019em up, and make them leave. <\/line><\/p>\n

Twenty-five percent of the people polled picked number seven, and more than 55% picked the top three so-called radical anti-immigration positions. Here\u2019s the important thing. In this survey of thousands of Americans on public opinion, all of the top three options chosen by the American people are more quote\/unquote “radical” than Trump\u2019s proposal. In other words, Trump\u2019s proposal is not nearly as sweeping as what a survey of the American people shows they want. <\/p>\n

So the point is Trump is not seen as a radical at all in this by average, ordinary Americans. He\u2019s not seen as an extremist. He\u2019s not seen as a fringe kook. He\u2019s seen to be a little bit less radical or extreme, if you just use these terms, than popular opinion as expressed by 55% of the American people. So if the inside-the-Beltway experts of both parties — if the elites and the establishment there — think that Trump\u2019s proposal radical and so far off the mainstream, it\u2019s not, is the point. <\/p>\n

The American people are even more adamant about this than is Trump\u2019s proposal, and the American people are the ones being affected by it. You know what\u2019s always amazed me about this, folks? Not just that California is a harbinger of what open borders makes happen, and not just to the Republican Party. I mean, California is one of the biggest welfare state states going now. It\u2019s in debt; it\u2019s a mess. Millennials care about equality; it\u2019s got the biggest line of demarcation between rich and poor, haves and have-nots of any state in the country.<\/p>\n

Where is all of the competition here? It\u2019s clear that a single issue or… Well, let me put it another way. It\u2019s clear that a single issue, maybe a couple small ones in addition, a single issue may be responsible for this Trump phenomenon. And nobody wants to get in on it? Nobody wants to compete with him. Nobody wants to try to steal it. Until now. The me-toos are beginning. “Hey, my proposal is just like Trump\u2019s.” You watch. <\/p>\n

In fact, right here in The Daily Caller, headline: Scott Walker, “My Immigration Plan\u2019s ‘Very Similar\u2019 to Donald Trump\u2019s.” Scott Walker today “responded to Donald Trump\u2019s newly-released immigration position paper by saying the plan he is offering is ‘very similar.\u2019 Asked on Fox and Friends if he gives Trump\u2019s plan a thumbs up, Walker said: ‘I haven\u2019t looked at all the details of his, but the things I\u2019ve heard are very similar to the things I mentioned.'”<\/p>\n

The me-toos. The me-toos are now starting. Rather than people trying to steal it, people are gonna want to get in on it. It has the potential here to be a genuine movement, so transformative that the inside-the-Beltway people, even while studying it and looking straight at it, still stand a chance of being blindsided by it. That is how far off the beaten path on this issue they are. And then of course there are side effects to all this. <\/p>\n

There are now internecine wars breaking out all over the Republican Party and within a smaller subset of that, all over the conservative movement. And now we\u2019ve got various entities writing pieces on who is a real conservative and who isn\u2019t, what real conservatism is and what phony conservatism is, and who the real conservatives are and who the phony conservatives are. It\u2019s a crackup, is what\u2019s happening. <\/p>\n

And what it\u2019s exposing in the opinion of many people is that the inside Beltway version of conservative media is almost identical to the inside Beltway version of Republican Party, i.e., fear of the left and saying and doing things in order to get the approval of leftist intellectuals and critics and so forth. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look at all of the arrows that are being thrown at Trump. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve always known this. There has been a fear throughout the Republican Party. I don\u2019t mean just the presidential candidates here. There has been a fear of the media, what the media is gonna say. “Don\u2019t criticize Obama! They\u2019re gonna call you a racist. Don\u2019t object to anything Obama\u2019s doing! They\u2019re gonna call you a racist.” <\/p>\n

You know, I still have people asking me, “This Iran deal, is there anything to be done to Obama?” No, there\u2019s nothing that can be done. The Republican Party gave him his free ride; they said there\u2019s no impeachment; they took it off the table. There\u2019s no enforcement mechanism for anything Obama does that\u2019s extra-constitutional, in violation of the law or what have you. He\u2019s got his free ride here.<\/p>\n

And the reason he\u2019s got it is because people are scared to death of being called racist or sexist or whatever. Okay, within that, here comes Trump. It may well be that a whole bunch of Republicans agree with Trump and have not had the… I don\u2019t want… I\u2019m not questioning people\u2019s manhood here. I\u2019m questioning political analysis. Maybe they just haven\u2019t had the courage to do it, but Trump did and they\u2019re probably sitting back and saying, “Yeah, look what\u2019s happening to him. They\u2019re trying to destroy him.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Yeah, but that\u2019s the lesson! What is Trump doing? With every insult that comes his way, with every bit of criticism, he doubles down and fires right back at the critics. This is, in one small part, exactly what Republican voters have been seeking, wanting to see. They\u2019ve been thirsting for it. They don\u2019t understand why… When one party is trying to fundamentally transform this country and make it into something it is not founded to be, why is there no opposition to it? <\/p>\n

They voted in mass numbers, landslide victories in 2010, 2014. They can\u2019t even get any criticism of the Democrats, much less any opposition policy! And Trump comes along and they\u2019re firing more than arrows at Trump. They\u2019re insulting him. It\u2019s predictable. everything that they can throw including the kitchen sink. But again the lesson is what Trump is doing with it. I told you from the… Look, I hate to do “See, I Told You So” kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

But I remember the first week this all happened when he stepped in it on the first original Mexico insults: Rapists, muggers, purse snatchers are who the Mexicans are sending. And then the insult of John McCain. (paraphrased) “I prefer prisoners that don\u2019t get caught, or servicemen that don\u2019t get caught.” And the conventional wisdom, “That\u2019s it! He stepped in it, now. He can\u2019t survive that,” and Trump doubled down on it. <\/p>\n

I said the American people haven\u2019t seen anything like this. It\u2019s a teachable moment here. Standing up for what you believe after you say it and doubling down on it is rewarding. All of this so-called political correctness has been a myth. Oh, it\u2019s there. But the fact that the American people on a majority basis buy into it has been a myth. So that\u2019s why the me-toos are now going to start springing up. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a validation of what common sense has always thought. Fight back against some of this stuff! You\u2019ll be rewarded. And not just for the sake of the fight. That\u2019s not what this is all about. The inside-the-Beltway people are even mischaracterizing this. The purpose of the fight is what it represents, the standing up for principles, the standing up for the American way of life, the standing up for the very way the country is founded. <\/p>\n

\"large\"Anybody that does that is gonna be rewarded in this particular climate. They\u2019re not gonna ask, “Is the guy a conservative?” or whatever. They\u2019re not gonna ask that. They\u2019ll deal with that later. This is not a purity beauty pageant. Besides, what good has rock-ribbed conservatism done? I mean, the inside-the-Beltway intellectual conservatives are off having dinner with Obama and talking about the crease in his slacks and talking about how smart he is. What the hell good is conservatism, if that\u2019s what it means?<\/line><\/p>\n

What good is conservatism if what it means is shutting up, and being thought of as a mannered, cultured, polite person who just steers away from skirmishes? What good is conservatism if it doesn\u2019t stand up for what it believes in? Yeah, it\u2019s an intellectual pursuit, but in terms of really understanding it, it\u2019s not something for only the intellectual eggheads on our side to be able to comprehend, define, and implement. <\/p>\n

Believe me, this is a question a lot of people have been asking: What good is conservatism if what it does is seek to compliment Obama\u2019s intellect and his speech making ability and his whatever else? What do we gain by doing that? “Well, uh, Mr. Limbaugh, what you must understand is the Republican Party brand has been terribly damaged partly because we\u2019re seen as barbarians, constantly attacking!<\/p>\n

“We must show that we can govern and work together and compromise. See if we can\u2019t do this, we don\u2019t have a chance of attracting the independents and so forth.” Yeah, you\u2019re sitting there and you\u2019re dying with this attitude, because you\u2019re not gonna gain anything. You think you\u2019re gonna siphon Democrat votes, independent votes by shutting up? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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