{"id":248550,"date":"2017-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=248550"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:49:08","slug":"trump-didnt-lose-in-alabama-his-voters-protected-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/27\/trump-didnt-lose-in-alabama-his-voters-protected-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Didn\u2019t Lose in Alabama — His Voters Protected Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Trump did not suffer a congressional loss last night. The media doesn\u2019t get this. Do you understand what happened here, Snerdley? The media, they\u2019re so eager to report that Trump\u2019s losing the support of his voters that they are totally missing what this Alabama thing is all about. In essence, Trump\u2019s voters were protecting him. And I\u2019m fully prepared to explain this.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. It\u2019s great to have you here. We have three hours of broadcast excellence. 800-282-2882, if you want to appear on the program. If you want to send an email address, the address is ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I gotta come clean about something here. I have had people — pestering is the wrong word. I have had people in the email asking me for the past number of weeks, “Why aren\u2019t you talking about Alabama? Why aren\u2019t you weighing in? It\u2019s very important.” I only use a voice like that to distinguish it from my own. I\u2019m not trying to suggest that people complaining to me sound dumb or any other way. I\u2019m just trying to distinguish the voice of those who are speaking to me from me.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a reason, folks. I did not say a word about this because I wanted to get a clean result of this. I didn\u2019t want anybody to be able to say that what happened was because I urged people to do one thing or the other. You know as well as I do that the Drive-Bys are eager to attach your motivations and your actions to my suggestions.<\/p>\n

Now, I know there were all kinds of other people out there advocating for one candidate or another, and that\u2019s fine. But I purposely didn\u2019t, almost as an experiment here, because, in my mind, I wanted what I view anyway as a clean result. Now, it\u2019s obvious, and I\u2019m not an idiot, that a clean result may not be actually ascertainable here because there were a lot of other people on radio and TV who were advocating one way or the other in this race, predominantly one way.<\/p>\n

But at least for me I can come here today and tell you that whatever happened had nothing to do with anything specific I said. I mean, I realize, folks, I\u2019m a powerful, influential member of the media, and whatever these results are, I didn\u2019t want any of it, not tainted, but affected by any suggestion that voters in Alabama were not exercising their own decisions. ‘Cause you know how the media treats talk radio and conservative media. The audience is a bunch of mind-numbed robots, doesn\u2019t know anything and they learn to do what people on TV and radio tell \u2019em to do. So I stayed out of this.<\/p>\n

I also knew what was gonna happen. I knew why Trump endorsed the loser. I know why Trump endorsed the loser from the get-go. I did tell you that. He endorsed the loser because at the time it happened he was trying to buy appeasement with Mitch. Trump frustrated, can\u2019t get his agenda done in Washington, thought he would try appeasing Mitch McConnell. I knew it wasn\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n

But what the Drive-Bys are missing here is the voters of Alabama knew exactly what was at stake here, and the voters of Alabama essentially sent an insider packing, and with this insider a bunch of others may go. Corker has announced he\u2019s leaving. And before today, before last night, a number of other insider, establishment senators were alluding to the fact that if the result came out as it did, that they would be leaving. And we talked about this on the program.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it amazing that rather than adapt and accommodate the mood of voters in their own party, they actually talk about retiring, thinking the place is no longer a good place for them, the Senate. Their attitude is, “Man, if the voters have gotten this far out, if the voters are this way, I got no prayer, I\u2019m outta here.” Rather than easily adapt. It wouldn\u2019t be that hard to adapt. You repeal Obamacare, you cut taxes, and you build a wall and you stop immigration. It\u2019s not that hard. But they can\u2019t for some reason seem to do it. This tax cut plan is another thing that is a disaster. It is an absolute disaster in more ways than it is not. We\u2019ll get into that here in just a moment.<\/p>\n

Judge Moore. The media think they have something to crow over here. A candidate that Trump supported has been defeated in a primary. I also never endorse in primaries, by the way. But, anyway, a candidate has been defeated in a primary. Never mind the candidate who beat Trump\u2019s pick is more of a Trumpster than Trump\u2019s pick was, and that\u2019s always been the case. The voters were consistent here! They\u2019re all saying that Trump has no coattails. They\u2019re all saying that Trump\u2019s influence is over. No, no, no, no, no.\"\"<\/p>\n

What it means is, folks, that Trumpism is bigger than Trump. It is kind of maybe a pink flag for Trump, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that big a deal. It may be a bit of a warning. But it\u2019s very clear what happened here. The voters of Alabama and the voters of this country, the people that take the time to vote are well aware. They have studied, and they\u2019re fed up. And it\u2019s not changing. And they\u2019re very dissatisfied that even after a smashing victory like was had last November, the results are not yet seen nearly to the degree people hope and expect. And so a Trumpist was added to the arsenal in the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

The media is grasping at straws here. They\u2019re so caught up in what they want to happen that when they think it does, they run with it, and they\u2019re making fools of themselves here. Because the people in Alabama, if you want to really break this down, they saw Trump endorse the wrong guy. I don\u2019t know if they knew why Trump did it. I don\u2019t know if they were in open defiance of Trump.<\/p>\n

The voters of Alabama realize that Donald Trump needed somebody else. They are invested in Trump. They\u2019re invested even more so in Trumpism. Without Trump right now, there isn\u2019t any Trumpism. This vote had nothing to do with Trump\u2019s endorsement. This vote had everything to do with the voters of Alabama realizing what is necessary to give Donald Trump the tools that he needs in the House and in the Senate to move his agenda forward.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I say this vote was almost the voters of Alabama circling the wagons to protect Trump. Had they accepted his endorsement and gone ahead and elected Luther Strange, the odds are it would have been a setback for the Trumpism movement, and the Trumpism movement didn\u2019t want a setback. This isn\u2019t complicated. But you have to have an open mind to see it this way, and the media doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The media is reveling here in the fact that Trump\u2019s voters ignored him. And they think they\u2019re on the cusp now of being able to separate all of you Trump voters from Trump. And if they can do that, it\u2019s mission accomplished. But they\u2019re not even close. If the media had any sense, this result would depress them. If the media had any sense, this vote would shock them like a cold shower. Ice cold water coming out of the shower head is how this result should affect them.<\/p>\n

\"\"But, folks, they\u2019re not there. They are so guided, blinded by their own bigotry and prejudice, they are so eager to see what they hope to happen actually happen that when it doesn\u2019t happen, they think it has happened. You ought to see it. I mean, they\u2019re all having a party today over at CNN. They think it\u2019s the beginning of the end of Trump. Wait a minute. Hold everything.<\/p>\n

How\u2019s it the end of Trump when another Trumpist has been sent to the Senate and a Never Trumper is leaving (i.e., Corker) and there might be even more? ‘Cause I\u2019ll guarantee you this. The establishment senators… I mentioned this. The establishment senators, before this race, looked at it and they said, “Oh, my God, if this guy Roy Moore wins… This is the Ten Commandments guy! If this guy wins, oh, my!” “I gotta get outta here,” said some of these establishment senators. “This is no longer gonna be a home for me.”<\/p>\n

As I say, rather than adapt and rather than accept the mood and desires of voters in America, they want to get out. Hey, well, that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s the way the cookie crumbles. The Drive-Bys on social media are saying the same things about Roy Moore that they said about Trump when he was elected, which is another good sign. They still don\u2019t get it. I don\u2019t think… Folks, to be honest with you, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re capable of getting it. I think they\u2019re poisoned. Their political brains are poisoned. It\u2019s been self-poisoned. They simply cannot see what is.<\/p>\n

Their ability to analyze openly — even accommodating their biases — has been lost. To me this is rather simple. How do you consider it a loss when an ardent Trumpist has been elected to the United States Senate? “Well, because, Rush, Trump endorsed the other guy.” Yeah, see, that\u2019s the way the Drive-Bys think — and they think newspaper endorsements matter too. See, they think you Trump voters are mind-numbed robots, too, just like listeners of this program. Whatever Trump says, you\u2019ll do it. Whatever Trump wants, you\u2019ll provide it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Whatever Trump\u2019s mad at, you\u2019ll be mad at. Whatever Trump thinks, you\u2019ll think. You have not got minds of your own. So in their world, you split from Trump last night. They cannot see that you had Trump\u2019s back last night. No more complicated than that. I\u2019d be willing to accept your thoughts on this, but, you know, to me, it\u2019s patently obvious what happened here. Just like with Trump, by the way, the editors — the other pundits out there — are assuring us that this spells doom for the Republican Party. They never say that about a winning Democrat candidate no matter how far to the left he or she is.<\/p>\n

We have a Republican that won an election and it\u2019s doom for the Republican Party! We never hear when a wacko leftist Democrat wins that it\u2019s doom for the Democrats — although I must retract that, because I had it in the Stack a couple days. TIME magazine<\/a> has it, and it\u2019s real in the weeds, but they\u2019ve had a deep dive with everything wrong with the Democrat Party. So if you look out there in the Drive-By Media, you will find stories, columns, pieces on the problems that the Democrat Party is having.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites here, folks. This is this afternoon, just moments ago, CNN, Inside Politics, John King speaking with Jeff Zeleny, the senior White House correspondent, about Roy Moore winning the Alabama primary last night. Here\u2019s their take on Trump.<\/p>\n

KING: President Trump spent the evening angry and venting about the loss and then he went to bed, excuse my language, quote, “embarrassed and pissed.” Jeff Zeleny joins me now live from the White House. Take us inside the president\u2019s reaction and what comes next.<\/p>\n

ZELENY: John, those two words that you just said sum it up pretty succinctly there. The President doesn\u2019t like to lose. In fact, he\u2019s not used to losing in special elections. But he is also getting a taste of what President Obama got, as well. It is difficult for a sitting president to campaign for anyone and hope that their supporters follow along.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would advise the president to stay out of primaries like I do, but they don\u2019t. They\u2019re fundraisers. But I don\u2019t know if this is true. I mean, they say that Trump\u2019s embarrassed, he\u2019s mad, ticked off that he was not listened to. Maybe, who knows. I wasn\u2019t in the White House last night. But I have to believe there\u2019s somebody there that can tell Trump this is a win-win for him. This doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s lost any influence with his voters. It means his voters have his back. But I\u2019ll tell you, it means something else too. It means that as far as the voters are concerned, they\u2019re gonna do what they think is necessary whether Trump is there or not.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think a lot of conventional wisdom people, people that have been analyzing and studying politics for years, almost can\u2019t get out of the archaic formulations that they have used and lived by analyzing politics for decades. And you have to throw all of that out now. And I don\u2019t know that they\u2019re capable of it. And by that, I mean, okay, so Trump endorses candidate A and makes a fairly big deal about it. And Trump thinks that his voters are dead loyal to him, that they will do anything he says, including continue to support him if he would shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, he once said.<\/p>\n

So he believes that these voters are inexorably tied and there\u2019s nothing anybody can do about it, and so when he goes out and says vote for this guy, they\u2019re automatically gonna do it. And most everybody else thinks that\u2019s the way politics works. But it didn\u2019t happen in this case. And since it didn\u2019t happen, the formulaic response is, “Look, Trump has no influence. Look, Trump\u2019s lost his influence. Look, Trump\u2019s lost the magic that he had with his voters.” And it doesn\u2019t mean that at all. What it means is that the national mood, the mood sweeping the nation that can be described as drain the swamp, is strong and it is growing. And that what Trump started has taken root, and it will continue to grow whether Trump is there or not. And I don\u2019t intend that as a slam at Trump. It\u2019s just reality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s right there in the election returns last night. And if there\u2019s one thing to learn is that this movement exists. Trump may have been — well, there\u2019s no question — Trump was the individual who rallied this movement together. Might even want to call it a new political party that hasn\u2019t yet formed and organized. But this movement is there, and it is growing, and it is insistent, and it wants Trump to remain in office.<\/p>\n

This movement is devoted to the things Trump said he was going to do. And the Trump voter believes that only Trump being there can make this possible. So they\u2019re not gonna abandon Trump. But they\u2019re also not gonna do things that, in their view, would harm Trump, i.e., send another establishmentarian up there when there is an opportunity to send exactly the kind of person they think is necessary to participate in draining the swamp. This isn\u2019t complicated, but I don\u2019t know that they have a way, these age-old dinosaurs and their political analysis, I don\u2019t think they can step outside the box.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Dayton, Ohio. Kim, great to have you. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey!<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Great. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m so nervous. I\u2019ve been listening to you since 1988. But —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that makes you a lifer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh! I\u2019m a lifer. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Let\u2019s go back to the Alabama results from last night really quick. You have it almost right. You\u2019re the only one that is close. Even anybody on Fox has got this whole thing wrong about why Trump endorsed Strange. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell us! Tell us! Time is vanishing. Tell us!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Trump endorsed Strange because regardless of the outcome last night, Strange was still going to be in the Senate voting until December, because the election for that seat is in December. So he needs Strange in there to vote if the health care came up, taxes, infrastructure, whatever. The last thing he needed was Strange on the end of his thumb pointing down like another McCain moment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know what? You may have a point. That is very forward, critical thinking — much unlike what Hillary Clinton\u2019s capable of. If Hillary had said that, Putin would be worried about thumbs up or thumbs down. I have a story here from Breitbart that says Trump was mad last night, but not at the election results. He\u2019s mad at Kushner for giving him the wrong suggestion, the wrong advice. That\u2019s the story Breitbart has.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got the Breitbart story right here<\/a>, and that\u2019s who they say Trump\u2019s mad at is his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and that\u2019s because Kushner apparently keeps giving Trump bad advice. Now, this is Breitbart. There was the Bannon falling out with Trump, but I don\u2019t think Breitbart\u2019s off the reservation here. Some people think now that Breitbart is aligning with Bannon and is anti-Trump now. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case at all, folks. You just need to chill out here and realize everything going on here, it all makes sense if you look at it just objectively as you can.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here\u2019s a pull quote. One thing I do know: Trump hates to lose. So I would believe he would be a little bit upset in there last night over the outcome of the election. And you know what family is, folks. Family is a different thing. You can have the closest advisers in the world working for you, people you\u2019ve known all your life; family\u2019s different. Family is always gonna hold sway. There are exceptions, of course, and Kushner has always been a highly valued member of the Trump family and now of the team.<\/p>\n

But get this pull quote: “In what is becoming a disturbing pattern, Trump\u2019s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner was apparently one of those who advised the president to back Strange, to once again sail into big, jagged rocks — a humiliation for Trump that anyone with any real-world political sense should have (and did) seen coming from a mile away. Appointed under shady circumstances, Strange is a walking-talking poster child for everything Trump ran against, a good ole\u2019 boy, Republican establishment backslapper strongly backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has done nothing but post failure after failure since Trump\u2019s inauguration.”<\/p>\n

True. Now, I heard that Trump did this trying to appease McConnell, that he wasn\u2019t blind about what he was doing here, but that he was trying to forge relationships on Capitol Hill to move his agenda forward. Now we hear that Kushner was behind the advice. I can firmly believe Kushner would give this advice. I mean, Kushner is family or establishment types, and Kushner\u2019s a Democrat. I\u2019m not gonna hold any of this against him. I\u2019m just trying to explain why this is understandable happening.<\/p>\n

Something else, too. We had that caller with a good theory in the first hour that Trump endorsed Strange cause Strange is gonna be there through December and he needs Strange to support him. He doesn\u2019t need Strange doing a McCain thumbs down on everything that might come up. Could be. But the headline to the piece is: “Luther Strange Endorsement Is Just Latest Awful Advice Trump Received from Jared Kushner.” Breitbart says here, “Moreover, Kushner\u2019s objectively awful advice to back Strange has succeeded in doing the only thing that could be fatal to Trump\u2019s presidency and re-election prospects \u2014 driven a wedge between the president and his supporters.<\/p>\n

“This time, at least, the wedge appears to be temporary and those supporters forgiving.” I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a wedge at all here. I think Trump supporters are far more sophisticated than anybody realizes, politically sophisticated. They know plenty! They know clearly enough to know what\u2019s wrong with it. They know enough about politics to know what to be mad at. They know enough about politics to be energized and show up and vote and try to do something about it. They\u2019re not bumpkins. They are portrayed as bumpkins, they\u2019re portrayed as racists, they\u2019re portrayed as white supremacists.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re being slandered, they\u2019re being smeared, they\u2019re being slimed, and that\u2019s not who they are. They love Donald Trump. Trump made a mistake in his endorsement. They\u2019re not gonna throw Trump overboard or under the bus because everything is much bigger than that. It isn\u2019t personal. In their view, the country is at a crossroads, and getting upset at Trump and abandoning Trump over this would be, in their view, petty. The big picture dwarfs this one election. They took care of it at the ballot box, pure and simple. And in doing so, they had Trump\u2019s back. I know that\u2019s… You know, wait \u2019til the Drive-Bys hear that.<\/p>\n

That is in such contravention to the way they\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n

“You hear what Limbaugh said? Limbaugh said that voters in Alabama actually had Trump\u2019s back, that they\u2019re not mad at him!” Exactly right. Trump endorsed; they knew it was the wrong guy. They voted for the right guy. They don\u2019t hold anything against Trump. They know what Trump\u2019s up against, and I think they\u2019re very tolerant. They\u2019re not at all… These voters, nationwide are not at all the way the media has caricatured them. They\u2019re not at all the way establishment politicians, Republicans and Democrats, think of them. And this was just the latest illustration.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know something else interesting about Alabama? Have you noticed the polling was dead on? You notice the polling in this Alabama Senate race was dead on accurate? Now, why do you think that might be the case? (interruption) Come on. No, it\u2019s not that. It\u2019s not they didn\u2019t have a vested interest. There were no Democrats to oversample.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Republican primary. Simple. No Democrats to oversample, so they got a dead, solid accurate result. The polling was dead on here throughout this whole race, was it not?<\/p>\n

Okay. We had to call some people back yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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