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RUSH:  It has been reported now that what the New York Times originally said about Lewandowski being canned is not entirely accurate.  John Roberts at Fox is reporting that the Lewandowski firing was due to an ultimatum from Paul Manafort.  Apparently Manafort… This is according to Fox News. Manafort told Trump it\u2019s either fire Lewandowski within 48 hours or he, Manafort, would quit, and that Ivanka, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. came down on the side of keeping Manafort. <\/p>\n

Now, the original report the New York Times when they broke the story said that the Trump campaign had been planning to get rid of Lewandowski for weeks \u2019cause they knew they had to transition to the general election and that Trump\u2019s adult children\/advisors had told him today that Lewandowski had to go.  It\u2019s a little different now.  There\u2019s an ultimatum from Manafort.  And Lewandowski\u2019s out acting good soldier, still supports Trump, loves Trump, and said that he would be happy to stay on as a Trump advisor and so forth. <\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s trying to analyze what all this means, \u2019cause the media template now is that the Trump campaign\u2019s falling apart.  There\u2019s no organization; there\u2019s no money; Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing; nobody in the Trump campaign knows what they\u2019re doing; Hillary and the Democrats are running rings. Hillary\u2019s got this massive ad campaign defining Trump as intemperate, somebody unqualified, not temperamentally fit for office. She\u2019s trying to define Trump in the month of June the way Obama defined Romney in the month of June in 2012. <\/line><\/p>\n

And remember how that happened.  (There may be something to this.)  If you go back to June of 2012 that\u2019s when we learned that Romney didn\u2019t care enough about pets and he put his dog on the roof of the family station wagon, and that\u2019s when they were running ads that Romney didn\u2019t care that an employee\u2019s wife died of cancer.  Romney didn\u2019t answer it because he didn\u2019t have the money, because the convention hadn\u2019t happened yet and so the matching funds hadn\u2019t come in, and, even at that, Romney had $100 million dollars that he couldn\u2019t spend. <\/p>\n

Trump has something like $30 million.  He couldn\u2019t spend it because you can\u2019t touch it \u2019til after the convention. So the Drive-Bys are saying the Democrats are doing the same thing to Trump now, and Trump\u2019s not answering it. Trump doesn\u2019t know what to do — and the polling data, they say, looks horrible.  The polling data for Trump is not as horrible as they\u2019re telling you it is! <\/p>\n

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RUSH: “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has been quietly having conversations <\/a>with state party leaders to discuss the latest push by convention delegates to nominate anyone other than Donald Trump. Priebus has spoken with GOP party chairmen in multiple states in recent days in part to get a better sense of how large the anti-Trump faction is among their convention delegations…” There\u2019s even a move on to change the rules at the convention to allow delegates to “vote their conscience” on the first ballot. <\/p>\n

Have you heard that one?  It\u2019s out there.  They\u2019re hiring staff and lawyers, and this drumbeat that Trump… Some of the stuff that I\u2019m hearing — you\u2019ve probably have heard it, too — is really getting deep, some of this stuff.  It\u2019s really getting conspiratorial, too.  Have you heard this one that Trump is already thinking about quitting because the last thing he wants to do is lose? “He does not want to lose. He can\u2019t abide losing!  Trump\u2019s a winner.  Win, win, win, win, win.”  So people are telling other people that Trump is already planning an exit strategy based on the fact of this.<\/p>\n

Priebus is meeting with people, trying to come up with a mechanism by which they could steal the nomination from Trump.  Trump is supposedly very mad about it and said, “You know what?  To heck with you guys! You\u2019re rigging the game against me; I quit,” rather than plod on and lose.  Others think that he might not do this until October to really put the party in a bind.  Then there are others saying, “You know what? Trump\u2019s figured out he doesn\u2019t want to do it.  That\u2019s why you\u2019re not seeing…”<\/line><\/p>\n

I actually had somebody explain this to me over the weekend.  But when the conversation came up about Hillary running — and she is. She\u2019s got a million-dollar ad campaign out.  You may not be seeing it because it\u2019s the swing states.  See, in the primaries, Trump could triumph with free media, just being on every show that would have you multiple times a day and therefore not have to buy any media time.  But once you get to the general election, it\u2019s not about that.  It\u2019s about states, it\u2019s about swing states.  It\u2019s about winning states to amass electoral votes. <\/p>\n

And the theory is, you can\u2019t do that with free media.  You can\u2019t do it by blanketing free media with interviews and guest appearances. No matter how often you do it, you have to target in swing states, and Trump isn\u2019t doing that.  The theory is that Trump\u2019s organization is not nearly set up to do it. They\u2019re not in any way ready to go with that. I mean, there\u2019s all kinds of stuff.  And a lot of this, don\u2019t forget, is designed… A lot of it\u2019s not true, folks.  A lot of it is designed to once again create impressions and to dispirit the Republican voter base, the Trump voter base. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s part and parcel of the Democrat-media game plan.  It happens every four years. Like I say, this is what they did to Romney back in 2012, and they timed it to where Romney couldn\u2019t spend any of the money he had to counter any of the charges that were being made by Obama in TV ads, and the same observation is occurring now.  Here.  Let me find a sound bite.  There was a meeting. This is gonna take me awhile here.  I\u2019m looking…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s number seven.  Grab audio sound bite number seven.  This is Sunday morning, CNN\u2019s State of the Union, during the All-Star Panel.  Dana Bash was hosting, speaking with Republican strategist Ana Navarro about Trump and the Republican Party.  Dana Bash said, “Let me go back to what you said,” Ana, “about being at the Romney retreat which happens every year in Utah.”  And there was.  That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

There was a Romney retreat where Republican establishment types go to try to figure out how to basically stay in charge of things, and they did it again recently.  She was there, apparently.  And so Dana Bash says, Romney “brings a whole bunch of donors and others in. Was there any talk of an alternative,” Ana? Was there any talk of “maybe Mitt Romney wanting to jump in again?”<\/p>\n

NAVARRO:  If we try to have a coup in Cleveland, we\u2019re gonna get slaughtered in Cleveland.  Do we get slaughtered in Cleveland in July or do we get slaughtered in November, uh, across the nation?  What I did sense out of the Romney retreat is that there\u2019s a willingness to come together, for there to be a Republican reconstruction, and I think Mitt Romney is going to be one of those leaders, as is Paul Ryan. Whether it\u2019s in November, whether it\u2019s in four years or eight years, there is going to be a post-Trump reconstruction and coming together of the Republican Party.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  So the consensus… Hear this, now: The consensus at the Romney retreat is, “There is no way to take the nomination from Trump.  Anybody trying that gonna will get blown out, but it doesn\u2019t matter because we\u2019re gonna get slaughtered! We\u2019re gonna get slaughtered in November with Trump, and if there\u2019s coup to oust Trump, whoever replaces Trump and becomes the nominee is also gonna get slaughtered.”  So the Republican establishment brains think that no matter what, we get slaughtered this November.  And that\u2019s where their mind-set is. <\/p>\n

And that mind-set has been there for months.  It\u2019s not really new.  I wonder how long it\u2019s actually been there.  I think this is also one of the enduring problems with the Republican Party.  It manifests as lack of confidence.  They don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna win.  For whatever reasons, they just don\u2019t think it.  If you don\u2019t think you\u2019re gonna win, you\u2019re not gonna win.  You can make bank on that.  And if they\u2019ve got this pessimistic attitude about it… I think they had that pessimistic attitude even before the primaries began.<\/p>\n

But certainly it settled in with Trump and the way he stormed through the primary season and just dominated everything.  They still were of the belief that Trump was gonna lose in a landslide like you can\u2019t believe.  Here\u2019s George Will, Fox News Sunday.  Chris Wallace says, “Can Trump win without the RNC…?” (paraphrased) Because it\u2019s beginning to look like the RNC and this stuff, the efforts there are to undermine Trump.  Can he win without them, George, “and the infrastructure … field organization, the money, and the database that the RNC has built?”<\/p>\n

WILL:  Trump got 13 million votes in the primaries.  He\u2019ll probably need 65 million votes to win the presidency.  Where\u2019s he gonna get the other 52 million?  That\u2019s a lot of votes.  Donald Trump\u2019s assumption clearly, at this point, is that running in a primary against 16 opponents is pretty much the same as running in a protracted general election against one well-funded, tough Democratic machine.  If he doesn\u2019t have a get-out-the-vote mechanism, what does he have?  What he has is crowds.  And like a real amateur in politics, he seems to confuse the enthusiasm of the crowds in front of him at the moment in the high school auditorium with the larger electorate.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Isn\u2019t that interesting?  You know, a lot of people do.  A lot of people look at a Trump rally and think, “Man, there\u2019s something happening here! It\u2019s big; it\u2019s all over the place.”  And Mr. Will\u2019s point is it doesn\u2019t mean anything.  A big crowd doesn\u2019t have a thing to do with the way people are gonna vote.  Do you remember the last 10 days of the Romney campaign in 2012?<\/p>\n

Remember those huge crowds and how everybody thought, “Something\u2019s happening”?  Romney even thought so!  “Something\u2019s happening.”  In 1996, Bob Dole called this program at some point in the last 10 day of the campaign and said, “Rush, something\u2019s happening out there! You can feel it.”  And of course, near landslide defeats were the “what\u2019s happening out there” now. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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