{"id":240935,"date":"2017-07-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=240935"},"modified":"2017-07-18T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:02:44","slug":"trump-has-nothing-but-the-people-who-voted-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/17\/trump-has-nothing-but-the-people-who-voted-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has Nothing But the People Who Voted For Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Right here we have it. This is how it works. CNN, even now, is discussing the ABC poll that shows Trump\u2019s approval at 36%. Do not forget, the ABC News\/Washington Post poll undersampled Republicans<\/a> by 12 points. It was 35% Democrats in their sample, 23% Republicans. Now of course you\u2019re gonna get a skewed result. Remember, that Gallup reported last November that 38% of the country identified as Republican. So what they want us to accept is that Trump is so hated and despised that 15% of the population admitting to be Republicans last October have vanished.<\/p>\n

Twelve percent of them have gone away and no longer call themselves Republicans, and that\u2019s why they sampled them the way they did in their poll. That\u2019s what they… I guarantee you if anybody from that poll is asked, “How can you only sample 23% Republican?” they\u2019ll say, “Well, that\u2019s how many Republicans have grown disaffected and unhappy with Donald Trump, and so our sample is accurate.” That\u2019s the lie that they will tell. Thirty-six percent approval. There\u2019s no way. And guess what? We actually have evidence.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Wall Street Journal\/NBC poll decided to do a poll of people other than in New York, Boston, and Washington. And in “the American counties that fueled Trump\u2019s victory,” Trump\u2019s job approval rating is at 50%. “Fifty percent of adults in these counties — consisting of Republicans, Democrats, and independents — approve of the president\u2019s job performance, including 29% who strongly approve; 46% disapprove. By comparison, last month\u2019s national NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll had Trump\u2019s overall approval rating at 40.” So it\u2019s… No, it hasn\u2019t gone up 10 points. What NBC and Wall Street Journal did was sample just the counties where Trump won.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the hell of a lot of counties. This is another illustration of the brilliance of the Electoral College, by the way. Somebody at NBC or Wall Street Journal — somebody in this polling unit — thought… Look, everybody thinks we\u2019re bifurcated now. Carl what\u2019s his name, Carl Bernstein, thinks we\u2019re in a media civil war and a cultural civil war<\/a>. Actually, we\u2019ve been in a cultural civil war for a long time. Bernstein\u2019s revelation is that now the media is caught up in it. In his world, the media has always been above everything. Whatever\u2019s going on out in the country, whatever culture wars, whatever political disagreements, the media is always there — unified with a sense of fact-pursuit and -checking and all that.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bernstein is now distressed to discover that the media has been divided as well, which is silly, of course. The media\u2019s never been… Not since 1988. The media has never been a singular entity. It was prior to 1988; that\u2019s the whole point. That\u2019s what he misses. But you go out and you interview people, you take a poll of where Trump was elected, and his approval\u2019s at 50%. And there\u2019s no president anywhere that would not take that. Obama would take it. The best Obama could do, even at his best, was 53%. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I want to go back to me on this program on January 23rd<\/a>. This is just two or three days after Trump has been inaugurated.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: The entire Washington establishment is opposed to him. The media is trying to undermine him. The Democrat Party\u2019s trying to undermine him as they set up what will no doubt be impeachment proceedings when they think it\u2019s time to do it. That will happen. Trump has nothing but the people that voted for him, and if the media can soften some of their verve — if the media can succeed in separating some Trump supporters from him — then their theory is he will be weakened even further and exposed even more as fraudulently and illegitimately elected and illegitimately serving. …<\/p>\n

This election is not over. This election is not cemented. It is not validated. It isn\u2019t real, because Trump is illegitimate, and the only thing Trump has — and it\u2019s important. It\u2019s the most important thing. The only thing he\u2019s got are his supporters. And therefore his supporters have got to stay as energetic and as front and center and as supportive as they were during the campaign. That\u2019s all he\u2019s got. He\u2019s got the power. He is the president, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n

But in this PR battle, in the image battle, in the buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz battle, in the narrative battle, he doesn\u2019t have anybody. Well, I take that back. Look, he\u2019s got this program for the most part, and he\u2019s got enough people at Fox News, and he\u2019s got some magazines. But he doesn\u2019t have the so-called mainstream media. So it is really important that the people that voted for him maintain their support and be publicly willing to demonstrate it.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Voila! And right here they have in the latest NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll: “Trump\u2019s Approval at 50% in the Counties that Fueled His Win<\/a>.” That was all the way back on January 23rd. Now, last night on PBS NewsHour Weekend, the anchor (let\u2019s see) — this is Hari Sreenivasan — spoke with Jeff Greenfield. He used to be with ABC News. Now he\u2019s journalist and political analyst. He was at CNN at one time too. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s independent or with somebody now or not. But, anyway, he wasn\u2019t a guest and he was being asked about Trump\u2019s relationship with media.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sreenivasan says, “You say President Trump\u2019s base doesn\u2019t buy that anything happened regarding the Trump campaign coordinating with the Russians.” Now, listen to this question: “Can anything change that?” Folks, you have here a PBS-media type. The media knows that their key to destroying the Trump presidency is separating Trump\u2019s supporters from Trump. They know that. Right now they, I think, are misaiming all of this collusion stuff, and all of this obstruction stuff is aimed at themselves. I have long believed that journalists at CNN report and write what they say to impress other journalists at NBC and CBS and MSNBC.<\/p>\n

And then vice-versa. The Washington Post guys write to impress the people at the New York Times and sometimes beat them. The New York Times writes to impress the people at the Washington Post and sometimes beat them. And, of course, their lunatic base readership. They don\u2019t know how to appeal to anybody else. They don\u2019t know how to appeal to people that live in flyover country. They just don\u2019t know, because they hold those people in contempt. They think those people are stupid. They don\u2019t know. So their objective is to actually destroy support for Trump amongst Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

And they are demonstrating they haven\u2019t the slightest idea how to do it. You heard the phone calls we had last week. People are fed up with hearing about Trump and Russia and anything to do with it. They\u2019ve tuned it out. They don\u2019t care about it, they don\u2019t believe it, and even if it is true, they don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything to it. They\u2019re not interested. And yet the media keeps beating them over the head with it. What the media is doing is driving people away from themselves on this story. The very people they are trying to convince that Trump is a bad guy, they don\u2019t know how to reach \u2019em.<\/p>\n

They think they do, because the media makes the mistake of vanity. They assume that everybody thinks the way they do and that everybody analyses the way they do and holds the same values. So if they just continue to bash Trump in the typical way the media destroys Republicans, that eventually they\u2019re gonna drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters. They haven\u2019t… The biggest flaw here that they can\u2019t anyway. As a student of these kinds of things, I\u2019m telling you: The media cannot destroy Trump, and the main reason why — and there are many reasons.<\/p>\n

The main reason why is they didn\u2019t create him. The media didn\u2019t make Trump. The media didn\u2019t take some unknown piece of clay here and mold him into a national public figure that they could then later dismantle and destroy. I can give you names of people they have done that to and they can whittle them away any time they want. But they didn\u2019t do that with Trump. Trump made himself. So the only person that can really destroy the relationship he has with his supporters is Trump himself.<\/p>\n

So far, he hasn\u2019t even gotten close to doing that. In fact, it\u2019s, I think, the opposite. I think that Trump supporters — as this onslaught continues — become even more glued to him. And yet the media continues to pound away in the only way they know, and this has been noted by Greenfield. So this guy\u2019s question to Greenfield is, “Trump\u2019s base doesn\u2019t buy anything about this Russia story. Can anything change that?” So what the PBS reporter\u2019s asking Greenfield this: What can do you, Jeff? What could we do? What could we do to get Trump\u2019s supporters to abandon him?<\/p>\n