{"id":213765,"date":"2016-06-15T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/15\/presidential_elections_are_decided_in_june_somebody_tell_president_dukakis_\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:51:18","slug":"presidential_elections_are_decided_in_june_somebody_tell_president_dukakis_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/15\/presidential_elections_are_decided_in_june_somebody_tell_president_dukakis_\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Elections Are Decided in June? Somebody Tell President Dukakis!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The Republicans and the Drive-Bys think that they\u2019ve got Trump in the crosshairs now.  They think that the race is over.  They\u2019ve got this Bloomberg poll, and it shows Hillary has advanced her lead over the Trumpster. I think she\u2019s up by 11 in this poll.  And, since everybody knows that the presidential race is decided by polls in June, it\u2019s over for Trump, and the media and a bunch of Republicans are ecstatic about it.  We have a montage here.<\/p>\n

JOHN HEILEMANN: Presidential campaigns are won or lost not in the fall, but in the spring and early summer. This might be a sinking ship.<\/p>\n

DAN SENOR: The gap is widening between Hillary and Trump.<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: Trump has picked a bad time to have a bad time. You cannot have your polls start cratering in June.<\/p>\n

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Sixty-three percent of women say they will never vote for Donald Trump. That\u2019s pretty devastating in June.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Hillary Clinton opening up a double-digit lead.<\/p>\n

MATTHEW DOWD: Donald Trump with a 70% unfavorable rating. Nobody has ever gotten elected President with a 70%. <\/line><\/p>\n

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: You\u2019re starting to see perhaps the chickens coming home to roost.<\/p>\n

NICOLLE WALLACE: The Trump campaign is experiencing his near-death political exercise. <\/p>\n

MARK HALPERIN: This is a really critical period. The Republicans are looking for him to turn things around not in a few days, but today, quick.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  Remember, presidential elections are decided by polling data in June now.  Somebody might want to tell President Dukakis about that.  You know, President Dukakis was leading big time in the polls.  President Dukakis double-digit lead all through the summer until George H. W. Bush in concert — by the way, this program started August 1st, 1988, and that\u2019s exactly when George H. W. Bush\u2019s polling fortunes began to turn.  I\u2019m not kidding. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Michael Dukakis ended up losing even though they were declaring him the winner.  I mean, Susan Estrich was his campaign manager, was on Meet the Press with Tim Russert and was running around acting like they\u2019ve won this thing months in advance because of polling data in June.  And here are these seasoned political professionals.  Who did you hear there? <\/p>\n

You heard John Heilemann; you heard Dan Senor, who is a Republican establishment type; you heard F. Chuck Todd of NBC News; Joe Scarborough; George Stephanopoulos; Matthew Dowd, former Republican strategist, analyst, now moved over to the No Labels crowd, I think; Savannah Guthrie at NBC News; Nicole Wallace from the George W. Bush communications office of the White House; and Mark Halperin. <\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve all figured it\u2019s over, Trump has stepped in it now, it\u2019s a bad time to have a bad time, and Trump\u2019s having a bad time.  And here\u2019s more from Senor. Senor was on CBS This Morning.  John Heilemann who was cohosting, moving over from his Bloomberg show because this Drive-By Media is so incestuous, revolving door, Heilemann said to Dan Senor — by the way, Dan Senor, if the name sounds familiar, he was, for lack of a better word, public relations for Bremer.  The guy who was putting Iraq back together in the Green Zone after we had ousted Saddam.<\/line><\/p>\n

He was the spokesman.  He\u2019s more than that.  He was an executive with Paul Bremer.  That\u2019s where you might remember the name, and he\u2019s big in Republican establishment circles.  He\u2019s on CBS this morning, and Heilemann said to him, “Let me ask a straight political question.  You have the Judge Curiel comments. You have the response to Orlando saying that soldiers in Iraq stole from the recovery fund. You have a sense Republican leaders are more pessimistic about Trump\u2019s prospects than they\u2019ve ever been.  So is there now a renewed push to dump Trump at the convention, Mr. Senor?”<\/p>\n

SENOR:  There are two tracks being discussed.  One track continues to be a potential independent candidacy, which is very hard and very narrow at this point.  The other thing being talked about is whether or not some rules could be amended to actually force a real convention fight to replace him.  It\u2019s a long shot.  I don\u2019t know if it will happen.  More and more you hear the Republicans saying that the system, the establishment, the whole machine supporting the Republican ticket can\u2019t sustain another couple weeks like these last couple weeks.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  So it\u2019s over.  They have figured out that Trump has stepped in it one too many times now.  The judge business.  This is the first poll that I\u2019ve seen that might have any damage to Trump on the judge business.  All last week there weren\u2019t any such data.  You know, polls, you can\u2019t just arbitrarily toss \u2019em out when you don\u2019t like \u2019em.  Have to deal with them as they are. <\/p>\n

But the interesting thing here is that the Republicans have no desire to even fight here.  They want to dump this guy. They want to toss him overboard. They want Mitt Romney. They want somebody to come back in there. They want to take over their own convention. They want to toss Trump. They want to set up a whole brand-new procedure so they can have a real, real open convention floor fight, get rid of Trump, and put in somebody they want, who\u2019s also guaranteed to lose.  But at least they will be happier. <\/p>\n

Dan Rather was on CNBC this morning.  Joe Kernen said, “Every article about Trump in the Huffington Post has a disclaimer at the bottom saying he\u2019s a liar, a xenophobe, a liar, a racist, a misogynist, and a birther.  Can you imagine CBS or another news organization doing that?  I mean, this is the world we\u2019re in right now.  What do you think of that, Dan?”<\/line><\/p>\n

RATHER:  Put me on the record.  I\u2019m not predicting he will win.  I will say he\u2019s capable of winning in November.  He has a path.  I\u2019m not saying he will win, but he can win.  Democrats who want Hillary Clinton to be president, should be afraid.  They should be very, very afraid.  Anybody who thinks that Donald Trump is gonna moderate himself along the way is either slightly touched or smoking something very expensive.  It\u2019s just not gonna happen.  Before this campaign is over, it will be nastier than a possum\u2019s mouth.  This is gonna get really, really ugly.  The race is very fluid at the moment.  You can go away and not come back until sometime after Labor Day and not miss a whole lot.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh, I don\u2019t know about that.  I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be a lull.  He contradicted himself there a little bit.  He said this is gonna be nastier than a possum\u2019s mouth, but you\u2019re not gonna miss anything if you take time off from now to Labor Day. (laughing) Convention\u2019s coming up?  Anyway, the point though is that Rather thinks these guys are getting a little bit overconfident now.  Rather thinks that Trump can win. <\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t forget Rather\u2019s perspective here.  Think whatever you want about Dan Rather, he got caught running a phony, fake story and actually lost his job for it.  That does not happen in the Drive-By Media.  His perspective on events is much different from the protected, encircled class of people in the Drive-By Media that are basically just Democrats with bylines.  But because disaster has happened to Rather, he\u2019s aware that it can happen, and Trump winning would be disastrous.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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