{"id":214177,"date":"2016-08-09T18:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/09\/why_the_clinton_camp_still_feels_vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:18:56","slug":"why_the_clinton_camp_still_feels_vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/09\/why_the_clinton_camp_still_feels_vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Clinton Camp Still Feels Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Trump has raised — I think they reported — $70 million or $80 million in July, and it supposedly has unnerved the Clinton campaign.  Why would that be?  I mean, money is part of politics. Both parties raise money. Both parties run ads.  Why would this said to be on…? I mean, Hillary raised $90 million in July in addition to, on top of, the gazillions that she\u2019d already raised. So what\u2019s the big deal? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you why.  For all this talk of the polling data — and there is a new poll, the Monmouth poll.  Let me go over this.  I promise you I will not lose my place.  This is… Even by an objective analysis, this is the worst poll so far for Trump.  It is a poll of likely voters, which is considered to be the primo sample.  That means it\u2019s more accurate than just a survey of adults, or even registered voters.  Monmouth has a great reputation.  They are not considered to be an outlier. <\/p>\n

<\/a>They are considered to be fairly down the middle, in terms of objectivity.  And in the Monmouth poll, Hillary Clinton has never been above 46%, but in this poll she hits 50%.  And it is the first Monmouth poll that shows her hitting 50%.  Actually, she may even be a little bit above it.  Trump is at 37% in this poll.  So poll watchers are looking at this and they are just seeing doom.  They\u2019re saying, “Oh, my gosh, this is so bad! I don\u2019t care if this is August. This is so bad, how do you recover from it?” <\/p>\n

He can recover from it.  Look, I\u2019m not gonna get into a discussion of whether a poll is right or wrong or any of that.  Take this back to fundraising.  Why would the Clinton campaign be unnerved that Trump had raised $80 million?  Are they unnerved because they didn\u2019t think that he had that much support anywhere?  Are they unnerved because they didn\u2019t think there would be enough people willing to put that kind of money behind Trump because they think they\u2019ve effectively defeated him already? <\/p>\n

Or are they worried what Trump will do with it?  I mean, Hillary has been running ads against Trump, and the Hillary ads have had one theme, that he\u2019s unfit.  “He\u2019s just not fit.  He doesn\u2019t have the right temperament. He doesn\u2019t have the experience. He\u2019s risky. He\u2019s off the wall! Can\u2019t let this guy near the nuclear codes!”  But they\u2019re worried about something.  They know that ads are negative.  They know that ads… By “negative,” I mean they\u2019re highly critical.  I think they feel vulnerable. <\/p>\n

I think they feel vulnerable because they\u2019ve got a problem, and it\u2019s hard to talk about people with (chuckling) a 17-point lead as having a problem.  But she has a major problem, and it\u2019s acknowledged by everybody.  The more she is seen in public, the worse she does in any kind of poll you take — a preference poll, a poll on likability, a poll on the future of the country — because she\u2019s not likable, she\u2019s not inspiring, she doesn\u2019t appear to be real, and now there\u2019s even… I run a risk saying this.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how to describe it, but when I watch Hillary at her rallies… I saw her going after Trump after his economic speech, and I saw her glancing down at her notes practically after every sentence.  She just… I don\u2019t know. She doesn\u2019t seem to be… I can\u2019t think of another way to describe it other than “all there.”  See, I would think if you\u2019re Hillary Clinton, you know Democrat socialist policy inside out.  You don\u2019t need crib sheets. <\/line><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need notes to tell you what you think, and refuting a speech like Trump gave? I mean, Trump gave a classic Republican speech, and many people think that\u2019s good.  There are a lot of people think that if Trump would just keep doing what he did yesterday, that he could overcome these poll deficits. If he would just stay disciplined and just focus on the economics and the disastrous economics of this country as brought to us by Hillary Clinton and Obama, that he could gain serious ground. <\/p>\n

I happen to believe that that\u2019s true, and I think they know it, too.  They know Reaganomics worked.  They know tax cuts work.  They know all these things work, and they work by making people less dependent on Democrats — and that\u2019s why Hillary and the Democrats oppose this stuff.  They don\u2019t want you keeping more of your money! They don\u2019t want you becoming more self-sufficient.  They don\u2019t like you being self-reliant.  They really don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re listening to me for one of the first\/few times you ever have, don\u2019t doubt me on this.  That is a threat to them.  They want people dependent.  They want people in a state of need.  They want people looking longingly at government.  They want people looking at government as a hope and as salvation and as a backstop.  They want people looking at government as a protector and as people who are gonna take care of them and so forth. <\/p>\n

They do not want people thinking they can get by without it. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want people thinking they can succeed and achieve great heights without government.  That\u2019s their sole hold on power.  So Trump coming along and articulating tax policy that has worked every time it\u2019s been implemented has got to bother them. So they\u2019ve got to immediately embark on discrediting it, which they\u2019ve been doing since the eighties.  They have become experts at history revisionism, lying to people about the eighties, lying to people about trickle-down economics. <\/p>\n

Economics is trickle-down! It\u2019s exactly how it works.  It\u2019s not a Reaganism thing.  Trickle-down is exactly how economic growth happens.  It\u2019s not the result of Republican policy.  Economic growth equals trickle-down.  All “trickle-down” means is that the economy is growing and that people are participating in it.  Trickle-down is nothing more than a rich guy buying a car or a middle class guy buying a car.  Somebody benefits selling the car.  The people that make the car benefit. <\/p>\n

The people that market and advertise the car benefit when it\u2019s sold.  The guy buying the car benefits because he\u2019s pleased, if it isn\u2019t a lemon.  He likes it!  That\u2019s trickle-down.  They want you to believe that “trickle-down” is the rich not paying any taxes, getting to keep everything they earn and then not giving it to anybody.  They want you to think trickle-down is the rich giving money away, is the rich taking a break. I don\u2019t know what… It\u2019s convoluted what they think, but that\u2019s exactly what they think it is. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how they can disapprove it.  They can show trickle-down… “Because the rich don\u2019t give their money away!” Nobody gives their money away.  Well, some people do.  They donate it or what have you.  But they want you to believe that trickle-down equals the rich getting all the money and then hoarding it.  That\u2019s not what trickle-down is.  Trickle-down is economic activity.  Trickle-down is commerce.  And the more of it going on, the better it is for everybody, at whatever level you are in the economy.  And that scares the devil out of \u2019em. <\/line><\/p>\n

So they have to discredit it.  My point is, Hillary Clinton ought to be able to read or ought to be able to recite Democrat opposition to trickle-down in her sleep, and she was having to consult her notes, and she seemed unsure of herself, and the lines that she was using were old and stale and tired and worn out. To those of us that pay close attention every day and have been for the last 30 years, there was nothing new in it, and it was… Grab sound bite number 14. <\/p>\n

You know what we can do?  We can kind of illustrate this.  There\u2019s two things I can illustrate here.  We have done an A-B, side-by-side comparison of Trump and his Economic Club of Detroit speech yesterday, where he mentions his economic proposals.  And we\u2019ve cut that with Hillary commenting on them.  Now, there\u2019s two things here.  You\u2019ll hear Trump and his style, and it\u2019s reserved, and it\u2019s professional, and it is purposeful. <\/p>\n