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RUSH: Kevin in St. Louis.  Great to have you, sir.  I\u2019m glad you waited.  Welcome to our program.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Dittos, Rush.  Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I don\u2019t think people really care about Donald Trump\u2019s taxes.  You know, it\u2019s just that tactic that they use, but it doesn\u2019t work anymore.  You know, I still remember when you were being audited I think in New York and they said all that stuff about you, and nobody cares about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Wait.  Hold it a minute.  You said, “When I was being audited, nobody cared.” Why would anybody care?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, they tried to say that you were — something about you were taking like $10,000 out a day or something and… I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t remember. They tried to use it to make you look bad, but it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, I must have missed that.  I\u2019m use — I\u2019m aware of every effort they make look — make me look bad, but I didn\u2019t know anything about that.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, my point is, the taxes doesn\u2019t work.  Nobody really —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  What is your evidence that it doesn\u2019t work?  I mean, the thing —<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, because they use it all the time and people are still… I mean, he\u2019s up in the polls. I just think people have caught on to this.  They don\u2019t care about that stuff.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  So you don\u2019t think that story has hurt Trump?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  No.  I don\u2019t think it does hurt him.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I\u2019ll tell you: The polls are all over the place.  It\u2019s like these computer models.  For example, the Bible is the real clear politics average of polls.  That\u2019s what all of the establishment types aim you at because that\u2019s just not one poll, that\u2019s an average of all of the major polls, and it\u2019s the trend that you look at, not the day-to-day result.  But yet I\u2019ve got some polls here that are not included in it.  For example, there\u2019s recent Reuters and Ipsos polling that\u2019s not in the state real clear averages.  You got the state, the average amount, then the national. <\/p>\n

In Colorado: Trump up 45-43.  Nobody\u2019s talking about it.  Arizona: Trump 46, Clinton 44.  Nobody\u2019s talking about it.  Georgia: Trump 51, Clinton 38.  These are not in the RCP averages.  In Iowa, Trump 49, Clinton 42.  All we\u2019re hearing is that Trump\u2019s, you know, biting the bullet wherever he\u2019s supposedly biting the bullet, and his debate performance just was a deathblow and the taxes. I mean, they\u2019re trying to make the case that the fact that Trump hasn\u2019t paid taxes whatever it is 20 years, and nobody knows that, by the way. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re just extrapolating from three pages of a tax return that had multiple hundreds of pages in it.  But it works.  I\u2019ve always thought that it works.  I\u2019ve always thought so, because taxes are one of these things that… Would you be surprised if I told you…? I\u2019m pretty sure.  I can\u2019t say for certain. But I think Warren Buffett is still arguing over a tax bill he\u2019s got of $1 billion.  Now, nobody gets mad at Warren Buffett for owing taxes.  They love Warren Buffett \u2019cause Warren Buffett\u2019s out there saying guys like him are not paying enough taxes. <\/line><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how you keep the wolves from baying at your door. If you\u2019re a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.  But he owes a billion dollars in back taxes.  I mean, these things do seem to work on Republicans. They do seem to work — with certain Democrat voters, anyway — and it all boils down the fairness issue and the equality issue.  And I hope you\u2019re right.  I hope it doesn\u2019t have that kind of impact.<\/p>\n

All of this stuff, by the way, folks, to me, when you look our first caller from Minnesota today about the impact on privately held farmland and all for subsidizing wind and solar. It\u2019s not just Democrats that are bought off this way.  Republican politicians are contributed to heavily by climate change, global warming, environmentalist wackos. That\u2019s how they\u2019re brought on board with this, and that\u2019s why an outsider like Trump is so appealing to so many people.  Because it\u2019s just…<\/p>\n

After so many years now, it\u2019s just suspected by most people that there simply is no way to change the direction Washington\u2019s going or the country\u2019s going or to do anything about that small group of establishment elitists in both parties that end up running things for themselves. They ensure, like, the bank bailouts for themselves and the corporate bailouts were for themselves and so forth.  But there hasn\u2019t been a real wage increase for average Americans in 15 years, and the same people are now demanding that the flood of illegal immigrants continue.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So people feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.  I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna make an ardent Trump supporter abandon Trump, but Trump\u2019s gonna need more than just his ardent supporters if he\u2019s gonna win, and so you don\u2019t know how to judge this stuff.  His rallies are still overflowing with people, and the excitement is beyond being able to measure.  The overflow crowd\u2019s outside satellite offices or satellite locations where they have TV screens for people to see the Trump rallies. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s Hillary out drawing 500 if she shows up somewhere.  So it\u2019s hard to get a handle on it.  Then you have a debate like we had with Hillary and Trump where he — in the first 30 minutes of that debate — owned it.  It was had you seen debate totally.  And then for some reason, the energy level dropped and whatever Trump does to be Trump stopped, and the consensus was that Trump fumbled the ball and Hillary won the debate and so forth on traditional debating points.  But even that didn\u2019t cause Trump supporters to abandon him. They just got a little bit worried. <\/p>\n

So I hope you\u2019re right that this tax business is not a harmful attack. My experience has been that it is, that it always works.  Look at Harry Reid and Mitt Romney, if you want evidence of how it works.  Here\u2019s Harry Reid, senator from Nevada, and he calls a press conference. He has a friend who told him that Mitt Romney hadn\u2019t paid taxes in ten years.  So the media says, “Well, who\u2019s your friend? Who can we call to ask? How do you know?”  And Harry Reid says, “No, no, no! You need to go ask Romney why he hasn\u2019t paid his taxes in 10 years!”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what they did!  They went out and said, “Why haven\u2019t you paid taxes in ten years?”  Instead of demanding proof!  And then after the election was over, Harry Reid said, “You know, I didn\u2019t have any proof, but I don\u2019t care. We won.”  But it worked \u2019cause here\u2019s a rich guy. Mitt Romney, one of the finest people you\u2019d ever run into, was made out to be a tax cheat, the guy hated animals and didn\u2019t respect his employees with just three ads, so forth.  Let\u2019s see.  Who\u2019s next?  This is Bill in Southampton. Southampton! A call from the Hamptons here?  This is cool.  Bill, how are you?  Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hey, Rush. My take on both debates was that we were on the defensive and we didn\u2019t take it to them, and so I would like your… What would you advise Trump in the next debate to go on the offensive and, A, if you think I\u2019m right or if even if you could pretend that what I\u2019m thinking is right. It just seemed like we were on our heels rather than taking it to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  This is interesting.  Do you even think that about Pence?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  I do!  I do.  I mean, because, you know, it was all about, “Well, how can you justify what Trump said?” Like you just indicated, we don\u2019t care.  I mean, he\u2019s filling stadiums.  Tens of millions of people support him.  So, you know, what\u2019s the problem here?  How come Kaine didn\u2019t get the memo that the American people want change?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You mean Pence?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  No.  I\u2019m saying —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh, you mean Pence should say that. Pence should have said that<\/a>.  Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  That\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Okay.  So even if I don\u2019t agree, he wants me to pretend I agree and then suggest what to do.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  (laughing) Okay.  Well, now, hang on here, because the premise is a good premise.  You can never advance the ball on defense.  You\u2019re absolutely right about that.  And particularly if you go into the prevent defense where you\u2019re gonna let them gain a bunch of ground but you\u2019re not gonna let \u2019em score. The prevent defense prevents victory, and being put on the defensive? It seems to work every time they try it, and all it takes is Hillary with these constant allegations about Trump.<\/p>\n

And why he didn\u2019t pay his taxes and what it could possibly mean or some of the other quotes about what he said about Mexicans and others. And then here\u2019s Kaine repeating the same thing to Pence, and you\u2019re mad that Pence didn\u2019t fire back.  What…? What…? Okay, for a moment here let\u2019s assume you\u2019re right that Pence was on defense. But how would you think he should deal with it? What should he do to get off of the defensive position or posture there in the midst of Kaine\u2019s attacks?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Dismiss it!  Say, “Look Trump\u2019s… The message is resonating with tens of millions of Americans.  I don\u2019t want to hear about any of this.  This is old-school politics.  We\u2019re beyond that!” Just as your previous caller said. “We\u2019re beyond all of that junk.  And let\u2019s talk about the issues, but I tell you: There\u2019s something going on in America, people are responding to Trump, he won the Republican nomination.  Let\u2019s get off of this accusations and name-calling,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  All right.  Yeah, undeniable.  Well, okay, let\u2019s go back to Trump.  So Trump is up there and Hillary\u2019s going through these imaginary reasons why he didn\u2019t pay his taxes.  She actually, I thought, threw him two or three hanging curveballs that he didn\u2019t even take a swing at.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Amen.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  The foundation, Benghazi, her incompetence as secretary of state.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Her “deplorables” comment.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  “Deplorables” comment, selling access to foreign governments and individuals in advance of her becoming president.  He didn\u2019t go there.  I didn\u2019t know why.  I don\u2019t know if it slipped his mind.  I don\u2019t know if he\u2019d made a strategic decision. You know, some people are saying now that he did this on purpose \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna come Sunday night he\u2019s gonna unload like you haven\u2019t seen, and he was just setting everybody up by going docile the last half of the debate on Sunday.  I don\u2019t know about that. <\/p>\n

Look, there\u2019s a point. I agree with you to a point that you never do any good being put on the defensive and staying there, and for some reason our side seems to be afraid to go on offense because they\u2019ve been so savaged.  If you dare go out and criticize Hillary Clinton, they\u2019ll call you “attacking the girl,” “unfairly the attacking the girl” or “unfairly attacking her husband” and it becomes a whole different media narrative. You become a reprobate for a whole different reason, and it\u2019s just seems to have worked into silencing a number of Republicans into not criticizing — even extending to not defending themselves. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on offense.  I think she is vulnerable, she is not liked, she is not overwhelmingly popular, she is not the most qualified woman ever to seek the office. What an absurd claim! She\u2019s not The Smartest Woman in the World, and there\u2019s evidence to back up all these claims.  But more than that, you know, when Kaine\u2019s going through his litany of things that Trump said and Pence is not defending it?<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the simplest, best way to go after Kaine or Hillary is just to say, “Why are you even running?  If things are so good now, why are you talking about all this change?  We\u2019re in a mess in this country, and it\u2019s because of what you think.  We\u2019re in a mess because of your party.  We\u2019re in a mess, Mrs. Clinton, because you\u2019ve been there.  You were responsible for this economy.  You\u2019re responsible our foreign policy.  You\u2019re responsible for the massive illegal immigration.  You believe in it!”<\/p>\n

I think it was so easy to turn the tables, \u2019cause nobody in America\u2019s happy right now.  Everybody thinks the country\u2019s headed the wrong direction.  There\u2019s a reason for it.  We\u2019re where we are because of policies implemented by Obama Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.  How hard is it to say that?  But apparently it is. I think… I don\u2019t like the term “sitting ducks.” They\u2019re really vulnerable on the status quo and the fact that they are the architectures of it.  Just the story today. We\u2019re in more wars right now than George ever dreamed of having us in.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Well, no sooner than I say I think the tax business works than I have been informed… Wait just a second.  Apparently Frank Luntz and one of his recent focus groups… It was CBS This Morning. That\u2019s the latest Frank Luntz focus group, and he said that most of the focus group people that he convened sided with Donald Trump, that nobody wants to pay taxes.  Luntz told CBS This Morning they are more upset over Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails than they are about Trump\u2019s tax returns. <\/p>\n

Luntz said that the people in his focus group said nobody wants to pay taxes. As long as you don\u2019t break the law, as long as you didn\u2019t do anything unethical, taxpayers are fed up with the tax code, and they actually don\u2019t hold him responsible for that.  Okay, so that\u2019s a Luntz focus group.  Take it for what you will.  Let me tell you, what really irritates me on this tax business is the way the — and the Clintons are responsible for this because they change the vernacular.  Tax increases, tax payments have become “contributions,” have become “investments.”<\/line><\/p>\n

And therefore if you don\u2019t contribute, you\u2019re a sleazebag, and if you don\u2019t help with the investments into what, child care, making America whatever, then you\u2019re a sleazebag.  And now Hillary is out there trying to capitalize on this-three-page tax return leaked illegally to the New York Times. She\u2019s saying that Donald Trump is depriving the country of money to pay for the military, to pay for the roads, and pay for schools.  Now, I don\u2019t about you, but that offends the hell out of me.  This government is $20 trillion in debt. <\/p>\n

If the roads are in trouble, if bridges are in trouble, and if schools are in trouble, it\u2019s because somebody in Washington wanted to pay for something else. We\u2019re $20 trillion in debt! You\u2019re telling me $20 trillion in debt and we couldn\u2019t rebuild a bridge or a road, and somehow now it\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault because he lost some money in a business back in 1995?  But that\u2019s what they want to convey.  I\u2019m glad the Luntz focus group says what it says.  I don\u2019t know how widespread it is.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Neptune Beach, Florida, Jeanette. I\u2019m glad you waited.  Great to have you with us.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  Major dittos from soon to be hurricane-torn Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you, Jeanette.  It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yes.  Hey, I just wanted to follow up on your previous caller\u2019s call about the Frank Luntz panel comments.  I don\u2019t know if you thought this, but the undecideds that were watching the Pence-Kaine debate definitely thought Pence won — I mean, in a landslide.  But they did also comment that they were still waiting for more from Trump.  So one of the things that Luntz talked about and suggested — and the group agreed, as do I — was that in this upcoming debate, Trump should not debate Clinton or the moderators, but instead should talk directly to the audience.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh, yeah.  Yeah, I heard that. Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  He also said, “I think Trump should engage with the audience by asking them questions.”<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Wait, who said this? One of the focus group people said this?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Frank Luntz said it.  He made out like five points —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  — and one of the key ones was —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh, Luntz said it.  Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yeah.  But the audience agreed.  He said, “I think that he should ask the audience questions.”  In fact, in his opinion, the first candidate to do that will probably win.  But I just sat there and I thought, “Oh, wow, this would be a great opportunity.”  So what were some of the things I would ask?  I would ask, “Do you feel safer than you did eight years ago?  Are you better off than you were eight years ago?  Are you happy with the entrenched lifetime politicians that are running your life?”<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, now, it\u2019s interesting.  I have a similar theory but from a different reason. My theory is that that is how Trump could go on offense.  Not by attacking her.  I\u2019ll explain in a minute.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, now Trump. Our last caller said that Frank Luntz suggested that Trump\u2019s approach in the next debate be, “Don\u2019t speak to her. Don\u2019t attack her. It\u2019s not gonna get you anywhere because, no matter whether she deserves it, it just doesn\u2019t look good on TV. As Tim Kaine proved the other night, it just doesn\u2019t look good on TV.  So instead, talk to the audience.  There\u2019s a camera there, and behind that camera are gonna be gazillions of people who want you, Mr. Trump, to hit a grand-slam home run with every sentence. <\/p>\n

“So do it.  You can look at Mrs. Clinton and say, ‘Why would we want any more of this?  We are here tonight precisely because we all have a problem with what currently passes for policy in Washington, DC, and life in America.'”  And just… I think this constitutes going on offense.  Now, too many people… Like Trump, his personality is this: If you attack Trump, he\u2019s not gonna sit there and take it.  He\u2019s an alpha male.  He\u2019s gonna come right back at you and he\u2019s gonna keep coming back at you. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, in this case, that\u2019s what the Clintons want \u2019cause they know how that looks on TV.  As I say, Tim Kaine proved it.  Grab audio sound bites number nine. This is funny.  Dana Perino… I\u2019m sorry, Dana Bash. Dana Bash last night on CNN on The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer\u2019s show.  Blitzer says, “Donald Trump just added a town hall tomorrow in New Hampshire to his campaign schedule. The Sunday debate is also a town hall.  Dana, what are you hearing?  How is Trump preparing to launch a fresh round of attacks against Hillary?”<\/p>\n

BASH: (haltingly) Just in terms of the performance aspect — which, as we learned last night, preparation does matter, uh, and makes a big difference, \u2019cause Pence worked very hard on it.  But Donald Trump, I am told, cannot and will not be convinced to change his prep and the way that he does it.  And so he\u2019s not gonna do a mock debate; he\u2019s not gonna have, uh, a formal person playing Hillary Clinton.  It\u2019s just not gonna happen.  He runs the debate room, the debate prep room — which is basically a conference room, sitting around a table — and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  So they are horrified.  They\u2019re literally horrified.  They want you to think they\u2019re horrified at CNN that Trump isn\u2019t gonna make any changes, \u2019cause in their world Trump got his clock cleaned in the last debate and anybody would make changes.  They find out Trump is supposedly not gonna make changes.  We\u2019ll see.  But again, you have to judge every… Like that analysis of Trump.  Remember, she would say this about somebody in politics. <\/p>\n

See, to her, it\u2019s inconceivable you wouldn\u2019t do a fake debate!  It\u2019s inconceivable you wouldn\u2019t rehearse.  It\u2019s inconceivable to Dana Bash that you wouldn\u2019t have a bunch of advisers tell you what you think.  It\u2019s just inconceivable that you wouldn\u2019t rehearse a bunch of times and have somebody pretend to be Hillary.  But Trump is not of that world.  Trump doesn\u2019t think that he\u2019s deficient.  Trump doesn\u2019t think that he\u2019s lacking.  Trump doesn\u2019t think he needs advisers to tell him what he thinks.  Trump is supremely, eminently confident. <\/p>\n

And he doesn\u2019t want to do it the way everybody does it in politics \u2019cause that\u2019s not the world he lives in.  Good or bad, I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s who he is and how he\u2019s looking at this.  But he still can go on offense without interrupting her and challenging her, unless she just… You know, if a big, fat, slow pitch softball is hanging out there, you gotta go for it. But other than that, and talk to the audience, go on offense and just tie her to everything people think is wrong. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Dishonesty, the lack of jobs, all these Millennials still living in their basements<\/a> with their parents upstairs, whatever it is — and remember what got him there. Being an outsider and having a confident fix for the things that are wrong.  But, again, I must also say, Frank Luntz… Just to be honest about it, Frank Luntz is of the political world, folks, and Frank Luntz is offering advice as a political consultant would offer a political candidate.  Now, in this case, I don\u2019t disagree with it.  I like the idea of talking to the people.<\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s nothing better than that.  But they think that Trump has nothing to gain by going after Hillary.  And that\u2019s where I disagree.  I don\u2019t think he should make a whole debate out of it.  But do you realize how many people in this country think the Clintons have gotten away with everything and they haven\u2019t been held to account for anything, and you\u2019ve got Bill with the women; you\u2019ve got Hillary with Benghazi.  You know, Trump may lose some money, but she loses people\u2019s lives.  She loses emails. She loses lives.<\/p>\n

Four people dead in Benghazi, and she said, “What difference it does make now?”  There\u2019s all kinds of vulnerabilities that he could go after, especially if she tees them up herself.  So I think it\u2019d be a combination of things.  We\u2019ll see.  You know, these debates, folks, are like when your favorite sports team plays. You\u2019re just scared to death they\u2019re gonna blow it. You\u2019re a Steelers fan, they\u2019re in the Super Bowl, and you just know they\u2019re gonna blow it! “Oh, my God!” You start worrying. “Oh, my God, they\u2019re gonna blow it!” You hope and pray they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

In a debate like this, I guarantee you every one of you people watching this, if at any time you think Trump\u2019s blowing it, you think you could be there and you could be knocking it out of the park.  Great.  “Make anybody think they can do it.”  That\u2019s one of the aspects of greatness: They make it look easy.  But in this case, it\u2019s gonna be… A lot of people are so invested in this, and one of the things they\u2019re invested in is the Clintons being held accountable, because they haven\u2019t been for over 20 years.  If Trump could find a way to do that, he\u2019s struck gold and can build on even that that he has now.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Here is Matt in Greeley, Colorado, as we head back to the phones.  I\u2019m glad you waited, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Mega mucho dittos, Senor Rush! A Latino voter in Colorado.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you, Papi! Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling) You know, Rush, the only thing I wanted to say was, do you think that Trump will try to change his delivery?  ‘Cause I tell you what, he\u2019s saying some of the same things that Bill Clinton has said in the past about immigration. But his delivery… As you know, delivery of a message can be everything, and I think Trump\u2019s like a bad paperboy.  Sometimes the news is the same, but he throws the paper through the window.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling) I like that analogy.  What would you have Trump do to change his delivery?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, I like the fact of looking at the camera, looking at the audience.  And I think that if he would say stuff like, “Look,” “listen.”  You know, right there, those two little words, and I think that the American people would stop, and they would actually listen to some of the things that he would say.  Just tweak him a little bit.  I think that Mr. Trump is saying some great things, but I just wish he would tweak it just a little bit.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Do you think that Trump…?<\/p>\n

CALLER:   And then, you can go after her.<\/p>\n

RUSH:   Do you think Trump does a disservice to himself when he talks about his greatness, when he talks about how he has succeeded wildly and more than anybody else, that he\u2019s been a great businessman? “Nobody\u2019s done it as great as I\u2019ve done it!” Does that…? Do people laugh at that or are some of them put off by it?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I think some folks are put off by it, and I\u2019d rather him focus on, “Hey, listen, this is what\u2019s wrong with our country.  This is what Hillary has done in the past.”<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, I\u2019m gonna tell you: Look, I agree with you, but there\u2019s nobody else doing that but him.  I mean, you don\u2019t even have Republicans doing it!  That\u2019s why he owns that.  I agree with you. He should stay focused on that because that\u2019s why he\u2019s assembled the crowd that he has.  On this delivery business, you know what I find fascinating about this? It\u2019s not uncommon. You notice the callers that we\u2019ve had today? They all want Trump to be great.  They\u2019re not mad. They\u2019re not ready to throw Trump overboard. <\/p>\n

They want Trump to kick butt.  They want Trump to do well, and so they want to offer advice.  I appreciate that.  I think that he\u2019s aware of that, too.  But it wouldn\u2019t hurt if somebody were to remind him just how many millions of people are hoping that he does well, investing in him and so forth, \u2019cause it could have the effect that you want, in terms of delivery or his focus such as looking at the camera and that kind of thing. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Kevin in St. Louis.  Great to have you, sir.  I\u2019m glad you waited.  Welcome to our program. CALLER:  Dittos, Rush.  Thanks for taking my call. RUSH:  You bet, sir. 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