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Donald Trump Jr. Denies Offering Kasich VP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  I was misinformed out there.  It\u2019s not Kasich who is saying that he was never offered the job.  It was the Trump campaign saying that they did not offer the job.  So the New York Times story has not been out and out denied.  The original New York Times Magazine story was that the Trump campaign, Trump\u2019s son went to Kasich, and said, “You can run it all, domestic, foreign policy, we want you to be VP.” <\/p>\n

And then a bunch of media ran with that as proof that Trump really doesn\u2019t want to do this, just wants the glory, just wants to sit in the Oval Office and be thought of as the big guy, but doesn\u2019t actually want to do all the work, and they\u2019re saying, “We told you so,” da-da-da-da. And the first version was that Kasich said, “Nobody ever talked to me,” but that\u2019s not the way it happened. <\/p>\n

Apparently it\u2019s Trump who is now denying that Kasich was ever offered the job.  And it was confusion over poorly crafted and written headlines that caused the confusion.  This report is from yesterday anyway, and it hasn\u2019t gotten a lot of traction, not a whole lot of people have been talking about it beyond some the blog reaction.  <\/p>\n

New Polling Data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, here we go.  Suffolk University poll of Ohio.  “As Donald Trump and the Republican delegates prepare to close out their party convention in Cleveland, a new Suffolk University poll of Ohio voters shows the race a dead heat in the Buckeye State, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump tied at 44 percent and 11 percent undecided.” However, the favorables and unfavorables are not that good for either of them, but they are worse for Trump. <\/p>\n

“Both Clinton and Trump are viewed unfavorably by a majority of voters, with Clinton looked on favorably be 41 percent of likely Ohio voters and unfavorably by 51 percent, while Trump had a 38 percent favorable and 53 percent unfavorable rating.”  So margin of error on that.  However, this is where it becomes troublesome. <\/p>\n

“In a four-way scenario, with Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson added into the mix, Clinton edges Trump 43 percent to 39 percent in Ohio, with Johnson getting 5 percent, Stein 1 percent and 12 percent undecided.”<\/p>\n

So here we go, third-party candidates are gonna gum up the works here if they actually run.  Is it definite Gary Johnson\u2019s in?  Oh, yeah, the Libertarian candidate.  Well, here in Ohio, again, that poll, if it\u2019s just Trump and Hillary straight up, it\u2019s 44-44 with 11 undecided.  Four way, it\u2019s Trump 39, Clinton 43, four-point spread, still margin of error, but the third-party candidates getting a total of 6%, Johnson five, and Jill Stein one.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Okay, Trump is getting a post… Well, it\u2019s not post yet.  He\u2019s getting a convention bump in the national poll at Reuters.  “Donald Trump is enjoying a mid-convention bump in the polls, surging to within striking distance of Hillary Clinton in a national survey released just today.” This is the Reuters\/Ipsos rolling national poll.  It “includes data reflected from three out of the first four days of the convention.  It shows Clinton leading Trump by four, 40-36, closer than the same poll found just a week ago when Clinton led by 15.” Now, Clinton hasn\u2019t been ahead by 15 in I don\u2019t know how long, but you\u2019re always gonna have outlier polls. <\/p>\n

And the Reuters poll, if this is true, a week ago, she was up by 15, 46 to 31, and now after three nights of the convention her lead has dropped 11 points to now a four-point lead?  It\u2019s a survey of 1,522 Americans conducted between July 16th and July 20th, with a 3% margin of error.  <\/p>\n

Cruz Campaign Manager Questions Christie\u2019s Testicles for Fetching Whoppers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  The campaign manager for Ted Cruz… Get this, now: Cruz\u2019s campaign manager is a guy named Jeff Roe.  And he really, really went after Chris Christie today, accusing him of having “no political testicles in a radio interview.  BuzzFeed first reported on the comments made on a [the show\u2019s not mentioned] radio show after audio was played of comments that Christie made Wednesday talking about Cruz.  Christie said, ‘I thought it was awful of Cruz\u2019s speech, and I thought it was selfish. <\/p>\n

“‘He signed a pledge, and it\u2019s his job to keep his word.'”  So Cruz\u2019s campaign manager, Jeff Roe said, “This guy turned over his political testicles long ago. So I don\u2019t take what he has to say with any meaning. You know, he embarrassed himself pretty quickly in this.  Let\u2019s just go through history here and time. Ted didn\u2019t sign a pledge. He didn\u2019t sign a pledge to support a nominee by convention. You know, this speech went further than Ronald Reagan went on Gerald Ford. It went further than Kennedy did for Carter.”<\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s interesting, that Jeff Roe — the campaign manager for Cruz — thinks that Cruz\u2019s speech — not endorsing — unifying behind Trump went farther than Reagan did.  This is interesting.  Now, for those of you who have forgotten, trying to figure out, “When did Christie lose his testicles?” normally you associate that with Hillary Clinton\u2019s testicle lockbox. But Jeff Roe in this case is saying that Christie has no political testicles because after he endorsed Trump then he was relegated to standing behind Trump and nodding like a bobblehead doll when Trump was making post-primary election media appearances after the fact, standing in the background. <\/line><\/p>\n

And get this now.  This is from Mediaite.  I\u2019m just gonna read what this says.  “Some reports indicate that Christie has been relegated to fetching fast food for Trump.”  Well, I\u2019m just telling you what it says.  I know I find that very hard to believe.  But that\u2019s what the… It\u2019s Mediaite. (interruption) Yeah, Christie wants the AG job.  What\u2019s that got to do with anything?  Where\u2019d that come from?  Are you kidding me?  If he wants the AG job and Trump says, “I want a Whopper,” do you think Christie wouldn\u2019t go get one?  (laughing) <\/p>\n

Chris Christie walking into Burger King ordering a Whopper for Trump and having to take it back to where Trump is?  When you see these assertions, these stories, they\u2019re, like, “Wow.”  But then you visualize it, it becomes really tough to believe.  So where are they?  Okay, let\u2019s say they are at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump decides — despite the fact he\u2019s got 15 chefs running around — he wants a Whopper.  So he buzzes Christie.  Christie comes in.<\/p>\n

“I need a Whopper, Chris.” <\/p>\n

“Okay.” <\/p>\n

So Christie leaves Mar-a-Lago, gets in a car somewhere, finds on a map where the nearest Burger King is, drives over there, goes through the drive-through or walks in and says, “Hi, I need a I need a Whopper with everything,” and it doesn\u2019t get reported?  You think Chris Christie walking into a Burger King and getting a Whopper would not be reported?  (laughing)  They assert it here.  <\/p>\n

Drive-Bys Reduce Great Laura Ingraham Speech to a Nazi Salute<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Newt was great last night, Newt\u2019s speech. You know who else did a good speech last night?  Laura Ingraham.  Laura Ingraham did a fabulous speech.  She was on for like 17 minutes right at nine o\u2019clock.  <\/p>\n

And I thought Fox, you know, she works at Fox, I thought Fox would pull away and cover some of it, but they didn\u2019t. (interruption) The African-American — yeah, that minister, he was speaking twice.  Trump has that guy speaking twice at this convention.  But, you know, Laura told her family story, which I\u2019m sure shocked a lot of people. That her mother made her clothes. That her mother was still waiting tables up to age 73, from New England and so forth. <\/p>\n

But she did just a fabulous endorsement of Trump, and she called out the media.  Which brought the house down.  She\u2019s pointing to all the booths, the NBC, the CBS, the ABC booths, and she\u2019s letting them know that we all know that they\u2019re in the tank for Hillary, and she\u2019s basically calling them out to be honest and so forth.  But you know what they\u2019ve done to her?  This happened to me, by the way, and I knew it was gonna happen when I watched this last night. I knew it was gonna happen, \u2019cause it happened to me. <\/p>\n