{"id":214755,"date":"2016-10-25T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/25\/trump_s_doing_it_his_way\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:39:31","slug":"trump_s_doing_it_his_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/25\/trump_s_doing_it_his_way\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Doing It His Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:  Okay, I have a couple of minutes here with not as many time constraints.  I\u2019ll give you a little feedback on the conversation I had with Donald Trump<\/a>.  As those of you who were listening were able to notice and determine, I did my best to keep him centered on the issue that he\u2019s making the biggest deal of today, which is Obamacare, which he should be.  This is an unacceptable disaster, what is happening here, and it is… To me, it\u2019s disqualifying for anybody who had anything to do with it.  This is a total mess.<\/p>\n

It derives from total… There\u2019s two things: Total incompetence on the part of the people who presumed to be the experts, but worse than that are its devious, real purposes, and that is the elimination of much individual liberty and freedom in exchange for total government control under the premise you don\u2019t know how to live your life unless they plan it and control it for you.  But the other thing that I found fascinating here, I mentioned to him twice that a lot of people think he should stay focused on substance and instead he answers all of this criticism.<\/p>\n

No matter what it is, he will go off message and answer.  Did you hear what he said?  This should tell you people a lot.  He admitted that his advisers are trying to get him to stop doing it, but he said he still does it. He\u2019s got to be who he is.  He admitted that he\u2019s being advised not to respond to this criticism, but he thinks it\u2019s important to correct the record early so that a negative impression doesn\u2019t fester from the beginning.  From the moment the charge is made, he thinks it\u2019s worth it.<\/line><\/p>\n

He thinks it\u2019s important that they don\u2019t get away with the character assassination even if he loses a day in getting his message out.  Now, that is an entirely different take than what people say. They\u2019re saying that his narcissism and his ego and his immaturity are what\u2019s driving his response to every allegation against him. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s the women that come forward or his incompetence. Whatever they\u2019re saying about him, he\u2019s making a specific decision, and his advisers are telling him not to do it and he\u2019s blowing \u2019em off, essentially. <\/p>\n

And he\u2019s doing it for strategic reasons, not narcissistic, ego-type reasons.  And I found that to be an interesting admission.  And when I asked him about the fact I thought I\u2019d heard him say earlier today in a Fox interview that pretty much admitted he\u2019s got to win Florida if he\u2019s gonna win it, he said, “Yes, that\u2019s what they\u2019re telling me.”  My take-away here is that he has remained his own man.  He\u2019s got his campaign manager, he\u2019s got his campaign CEO, he\u2019s got strategists, a couple of them and so forth.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a lot of people advising him, but he\u2019s following his instincts.  And, you know, folks, I don\u2019t know how many people are able to relate to the kind of assault Trump\u2019s under. I mean, do you realize that he has…? When you look at media coverage (Media Research Center just released this), the amount of coverage that he has received dwarfs the coverage Hillary Clinton has received, but 91% of it is hostile.  That is the exact kind of coverage that has neutered Republicans and has turned them into quasi-Democrats.<\/p>\n

Most Republicans and a lot of conservative media types wither under such attack. They don\u2019t want any part of it.  They don\u2019t want it, and so they will stop doing what they\u2019re doing that\u2019s generating that kind of attention.  But Trump is not.  He\u2019s not backing down.  They can\u2019t talk him off of what he wants to say, whether his advisers telling him it\u2019s the right thing to do or not.  And I find it fascinating that this badgering… Folks, this is character assassination, life assassination, and he has withered it and withstood it, triumphed over it in his own way.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It has not changed the way he\u2019s going about things here.  Now, many of you disagree. I\u2019m sure many of you think he ought to just ignore half of this stuff or more, stay focused on the issues — immigration, Obamacare, whatever the issues are<\/a>.  But you heard him say he\u2019s being advised to do that and he can\u2019t.  He doesn\u2019t want these attacks to settle in and have those assassinations become established as fact.  But he\u2019s there the next day to keep pushing back at \u2019em.  As I say, when Harry Reid comes at you like this…<\/p>\n

The Romney team didn\u2019t fight back any of this stuff.  They tried. The Bush team didn\u2019t fight back on any of this kind of stuff.  And Trump does.  I think it\u2019s one of the primary reasons that his people have not abandoned him during any of this.  Just my two cents.  Also, in this early voting, traditionally we\u2019ve always believed that it\u2019s the Democrats that are engaging in early voting because we think it\u2019s a ticket for fraud.  I mean, let\u2019s be honest.  That\u2019s what you and I have thought of it.  But this year, we may have to look at early voting a little bit differently.<\/p>\n

Based on the call we had from the woman Kathryn (one of my all-time favorite top 10 female names, by the way) from Houston and others reporting some of these irregularities at early voting polling places in Houston.  Where is the enthusiasm in this campaign?  Where is the enthusiasm?  It\u2019s on the Trump side.  There isn\u2019t… Tim Kaine? Honest to God, folks. He was here yesterday. Thirty people! Now, I know he\u2019s the vice presidential candidate and nobody knows who he is. He\u2019s Hillary\u2019s running mate! Didn\u2019t matter. Thirty people!  Hillary doesn\u2019t draw many more than 250, 500, unless she\u2019s got Elizabeth Warren with her in Massachusetts or New Hampshire. Then they might get to a thousand.  <\/p>\n

Hillary doesn\u2019t draw many more than 250, 500, unless she\u2019s got Elizabeth Warren with her in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, then they might get to a thousand.  My point, there is no enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton.  What she has going for her is her last name and there\u2019s a D next to her name on the ballot.  That\u2019s it.  And if early voting — and Trump told us that there are lines like people are saying they\u2019ve never seen no Florida, early voting, what are the odds those people are showing up to vote for Hillary?  I don\u2019t think so.  I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. <\/p>\n

And like our caller from Houston said, everybody, when she was there to early vote were Trump supporters.  And I would bet you, if you look in these states where there\u2019s early voting, I\u2019ll bet you\u2019ll find that in some of them the number one group showing up is independents, not Democrats and not Republicans. <\/p>\n

Let me ask you about that.  Who are the independents?  Romney won the independents going away in 2012.  The independents today, I have a theory, I think most independents are conservatives who are fed up with the Republican Party and have abandoned it and registered Independent.  I don\u2019t think that most independents are abandoning the Democrat Party to go independent.<\/line><\/p>\n

So if indeed the largest bloc of early voters are independents, coupled with the obvious signs of enthusiasm out there, you\u2019d have to say that it may be that the early voting is heavy Trump.  Now, the conventional wisdom is gonna pooh-pooh that, and wait \u2019til the Drive-By experts and the political professionals get hold of what I said, and they\u2019ll ridicule it left and right.  But that\u2019s how I see it.  I just don\u2019t see any enthusiasm.  Hillary may be up five at CNN, 12 at ABC.  Who the hell knows.  But there isn\u2019t any enthusiasm for her other than in the media.  That\u2019s it. <\/p>\n

I mean, even the people bought and paid for by the Hillary campaign do not show up for her.  They show up to try to upset a Trump event.  That\u2019s why people are not believing the polls.  There isn\u2019t any visual evidence that the polls are reflecting what people see in terms of outward expressions of enthusiasm.  Then the experts say, “You can\u2019t do that, Mr. Limbaugh.  How many times do we have to tell you, 17,000 people, 10,000 people, that\u2019s not even one-tenth of 1% of the total number of people that are gonna vote.  You can\u2019t say that those people represent anything.”  That\u2019s their story and they stick to it.  But I\u2019m just sharing with you that which I see.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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