{"id":229076,"date":"2017-04-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=229076"},"modified":"2017-04-12T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:34:50","slug":"all-eyes-on-kansas-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/11\/all-eyes-on-kansas-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"All Eyes on Kansas Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s a special election in Kansas today. I have to tell you this. You know, I\u2019m on the mailing list for Jonathan Martin, who\u2019s a reporter at the New York Times. He used to be at Politico. And that\u2019s how I\u2019m on the mailing list. I used to communicate email back and forth. He would email me asking for a quote on something, treating me, as he should, as a source authority. When he got to the New York Times, treating me as a source authority ceased and desisted, but he still sends me his stuff.<\/p>\n

Mike Pompeo<\/p><\/div>\n

So he has a story in the New York Times today about the special election in Kansas, and I got the link to it last night. And I\u2019m telling you that the entire Washington establishment led by the media is looking at this special election with laser-like focus. This is the seat that was held by Mike Pompeo. Mike Pompeo is now the CIA director. So the seat is open, necessitating the special election. It is in a district that encompasses part of Wichita, which happens to be where — dadelut dadelut dadelut — the Koch brothers are.<\/p>\n

Koch Industries, the world headquarters is in Wichita, Kansas. Charles Koch lives there and is still there. David Koch, the other Koch brother, gallivants around New York. Charles Koch is still there. And they have another brother, Bill Koch, who is here. He\u2019s got the most phenomenal (unintelligible) and won the America\u2019s Cup way back when. Great guy. Anyway, I don\u2019t know that the Koch brothers have anything to do with this. But Martin\u2019s story and the media are hoping that the Democrats win this special election because if the Democrats win the special election in Kansas, it\u2019ll mean that Trump doesn\u2019t have any coattails.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll mean that Trump\u2019s lost his coattails. It\u2019ll mean that Trumpism is over. It\u2019ll mean that the people of America are fed up with Trump. That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna say, all that and more, if the Democrats win this special election. Now, Pompeo owned this seat, but he\u2019s not there. And the Democrats have poured a lot of money into it. The Republicans the same. And it\u2019s fascinating. They\u2019ve got every hope and dream that the establishment has that Trump is temporary, is not really president, it\u2019s an illusion. Everybody\u2019s living a nightmare. And it could all be proven if the Republicans do not hold this seat in the special election.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re hoping that what it\u2019s going to show is that there\u2019s distrust and anger and frustration with Trump because Trump violated so many campaign promises. Obamacare isn\u2019t repealed, there aren\u2019t any tax cuts, the wall hasn\u2019t been built, and Trump launched a military strike against Syria. All of those things it is believed that Trump supporters despise, are angry at, and now hate Trump. And we\u2019re gonna get all the proof in this special election when the results are known. Now, if the Republicans hold the seat, it\u2019s gonna be a suicide watch. Well, maybe not. They\u2019ll manufacture an excuse, blaming the Democrat candidate for lack of enough money or what have you. But they\u2019re really salivating about it.<\/p>\n

But, folks, I think the wall\u2019s gonna get built, somehow, some way, a portion of the wall. There will be a structure that goes up, and it will have an observation deck, and it will have a sauna, and it will have hot tubs and stuff. It\u2019ll be a tourist attraction. It might even have exclusive Trump hotel suites, you can stay at the wall, you can vacation at the wall. Wouldn\u2019t that be cool if that kind of structure went up? Those are the kinds of things Trump\u2019s known for. That would really frost them.<\/p>\n

\"\"But in all candor, and I have no evidence I can cite, this is just an instinct of mine that there is still this wild opposition to Trump institutionally within the Washington establishment and many of them are still of the mind that they can stop him and render him irrelevant by simply failing to enact his agenda. That\u2019s all they have to do to destroy Trump is fail to enact his agenda. That means his voters will blame him for not being able to get things done after bragging during the campaign how he\u2019s the only guy that could get things done.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the effort. Thwart his agenda, force you people that love Trump to turn on him \u2019cause he can\u2019t actually do what he said he was gonna do. That\u2019s what is really going on here. And this is what they don\u2019t understand. Trump will find a way around it, as long as he convinces his voter base that he\u2019s still focused like a laser on all those things and intends to get them done.<\/p>\n

See. Do we have time. Yes, we do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a question about this special election in Kansas. And my question is, how do the Democrats think they even have a chance at winning this election? How can they possibly hope to win this election? Look, if the Russians were able to tamper with a nationwide presidential election to shaft Hillary Clinton, wouldn\u2019t it be simple to tamper with a single congressional election in Wichita?<\/p>\n

I mean, come on. On what basis do the Democrats think they\u2019ve even got a chance here? Knowing how Trump colludes with the Russians to screw Democrats out of elections. How come we haven\u2019t had a story about that? How come we haven\u2019t seen a story about Russian collusion with Trump and these special elections, huh? In fact, what\u2019s happened to that story all over the place?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump recorded a robo-call for the special election in Kansas today, throwing his weight behind the Republican in a race that the Drive-Bys say is very, very close. And they\u2019re all invested in the Democrat winning the special election — it\u2019s Mike Pompeo\u2019s seat — \u2019cause if the Democrats can win the special election, it means the Democrats gonna win back the House. It means the Democrats gonna win back the Senate! It means that Trumpism is over. If the Democrats can win a special election this soon, even before Trump\u2019s hundred days are over, it means that the bloom is off the rose and the nation realizes what a mistake they made with Trump and that they can\u2019t wait to elect Democrats.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how this is gonna be portrayed if the Democrats win the special election in Kansas today. Here\u2019s the robo-call that Trump made…<\/p>\n

\"\"THE PRESIDENT: We\u2019re going to do things really great for our country. Our country needs help. Ron is gonna be helping us big league. But I need Republicans like Ron Estes to help me get the job done. This is an important election. There\u2019s really very few much more important, and I need your vote for Ron Estes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s the Trump robo-call trying to get the vote out for Ron Estes, running for the seat held by Mike Pompeo, who\u2019s now director at the CIA. And folks, I\u2019m not exaggerating. If the Democrats win this, the media\u2019s gonna say everything I just said and more. It\u2019s gonna mean that not even after his first hundred days, the country realizes what a mistake they made and can\u2019t wait for every chance they get to vote Democrat again. Make no mistake about it. You people in Wichita, in this election you need to remember that, because that\u2019s exactly how they\u2019re gonna play it if Estes loses this thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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