{"id":214646,"date":"2016-10-12T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/12\/what_trump_should_do_in_the_final_debate\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:40:40","slug":"what_trump_should_do_in_the_final_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/12\/what_trump_should_do_in_the_final_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump Should Do in the Final Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Sean in Advance, North Carolina.  You\u2019re next.  I\u2019m glad you waited.  Hey!<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thanks, Rush.  Appreciate it.  A quick shout-out to my friend Jeff, who turned me on to you in 1992.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I appreciate that.<\/p>\nCALLER:  Yeah.  He taped your television show in the middle of the night on a small station, and I\u2019m just very thankful.  Rush, I want to get right to the point.  I really believe in this next debate Trump can gain momentum from him learning the debate style in debate one. I believe masterfully in debate two. Taking a concept of answering questions in the way that best served his interests, and if the question didn\u2019t deserve being answered, he spent time getting to points like <\/line>drawing a line in the sand in Syria and some things that I can tell he was well focused on.  Here\u2019s what he needs to do, and I want to get your opinion.  I think he needs to say these phrases:  “Check these email leaks.”  “This is in their words, not mine.” This is in Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign\u2019s words, not mine.”  “If you want to fact check, go straight to the facts.  Links on my website.”  What do you think, Rush?<\/line>\n

RUSH:  Well, I think he will, \u2019cause he talked a lot about the WikiLeaks.  And he had it down pat.  I have to tell you, I\u2019m still in the process of organizing.  I still need the crib sheets in front of me to remind me of everything that\u2019s in these leaks so far.  And he was rattling them off.  He wasn\u2019t spending a lot of it time on each one, but he was rattling them off and making a point about them.  And when he got to the one about Hillary having to be coached when to smile, he illustrated what that would be like if he had to be coached to smile.  He faked reading a teleprompter and then said, “And now it says to smile.”  And then he smiled real big.  And then went back to what he was saying.  It was a great, great way of mocking her. <\/p>\n

But you need to know something out there, Sean.  The Drive-Bys have already subtly begun the conversation that we don\u2019t even need a third debate, that Mrs. Clinton should just cancel it.  The only side for her is a downside.  She\u2019s got this election won.  It\u2019s in the bag, they say.  It\u2019s over.  There\u2019s no reason to give Trump another chance to get back in it.  Another debate isn\u2019t necessary, the Drive-Bys say.  And, by the way, this is all coming from the Clinton campaign.  The Drive-Bys do nothing independently.  It\u2019s all from the Clinton campaign. <\/p>\n

So the talking points are out there.  And one of the other reasons being given is that Trump is so embarrassing, and these debates feature language that\u2019s just not suitable for our children.  It\u2019s just the worst.  It\u2019s a national embarrassment to have Donald Trump with this kind of national exposure.  The only decent thing to do, they say, is cancel the third debate.  We can\u2019t subject our children to any more of this.  We can\u2019t subject our women to any more of this.  This is some of the lowest of the low that Trump represents.  He\u2019s just filth personified, and there\u2019s no reason to have this third debate.  That\u2019s starting to simmer out there. <\/p>\n

Have you seen this, Mr. Snerdley?  Have you seen stories like this out there yet?  He\u2019s not listening.  I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019re there.  And I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna reach a crescendo, because not everybody thinks it\u2019s the right idea.  Some people on the left think that Hillary would look very bad walking away, like she\u2019s afraid of Donald Trump?  And then they say, “No, no, no, she\u2019s not afraid.  She\u2019s trying to protect America\u2019s children.  She\u2019s trying to protect America\u2019s women from having them subjected to more of this degrading scum and filth that is Donald Trump.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So I just want you to know that there is effervescing beneath the surface this — I think it\u2019s an effort to build up support somewhere for canceling the third debate.  And the reason for it would be, the real reason would be that Hillary\u2019s got nothing to gain.  They think it\u2019s over. I mean, they really do. They think she\u2019s won it in a landslide, it\u2019s in the bag, it\u2019s finished, and so the only thing that could happen for her would be things that go wrong.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Charlie in Sedalia, Missouri.  You\u2019re next, sir.  Great to have you with us.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thank you, Rush Limbaugh, the legend lives. Greetings from the queen city of the prairies.  How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I\u2019m very well, sir.  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I was wondering if you think it would be appropriate or inappropriate if next week when Trump\u2019s hammered by Hillary about his locker room talk, if he were to reply by saying, “Mrs. Clinton, to plagiarize a line from you, at this point, what difference does it make?”  Would that work for him?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  See, what that requires is the audience knowing that she said, “What difference does it make?” when she was in congressional hearings about the loss of life in Benghazi.  She actually said, “Look, four Americans are dead.  What difference does it make now?”  Meaning how and why.  “What difference does it make?”  Any time that you have to rely, that you have to assume the bulk of your audience knows, I just think that\u2019s a risk.  When I saw your question up there I began to think, okay, debate strategy, what should it be in the next debate? <\/p>\n

By the way, folks, make no bones that the Washington Post has a story about what a waste of time it would be to have a third debate, that Trump is such a reprobate, he\u2019s so despicable that it\u2019s unkind to subject the people of this country to another hour and a half of Donald Trump.  That\u2019s the theory.  But it\u2019ll happen because Mrs. Clinton doesn\u2019t want to attract a reputation of cowardice and walking away from it, but how to go after her in that debate, I don\u2019t — look, this just me talking.  It could change at any moment. <\/line><\/p>\n

I think Trump\u2019s gotta appeal to the American people, and not just convince people that she\u2019s dangerous and so forth.  He\u2019s gotta make himself look better, not make her look worse.  And I don\u2019t mean that he looks bad.  I mean in a comparison of the two, he\u2019s gotta become more desirable.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Look, folks, I know we want to see Hillary Clinton blown to smithereens, but that may not be the best way to effect victory in the next debate.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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