{"id":252572,"date":"2017-10-27T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252572"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:01:26","slug":"virginia-shock-poll-gillespie-leads-big-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/27\/virginia-shock-poll-gillespie-leads-big-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Shock Poll: Gillespie Leads Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a shock poll out of Virginia, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/357192-poll-gillespie-winning-virginia-gov-race\">a Hampton University poll<\/a>, that shows Ed Gillespie significantly ahead of Ralph Northam in the governor\u2019s race of Virginia. Now, this is considered a Democrat fait accompli. I mean, The Punk, Terry McAuliffe, is the incumbent. He\u2019s got all kinds of ways for massaging the vote there for his party. But Gillespie has pulled ahead. Now, Gillespie is an establishment Republican. Gillespie is right out of the George W. Bush machine, and yet he\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071317-Gillespie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071317-Gillespie.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071317-Gillespie-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>We had a caller the other day, &#8220;What do we in Virginia do? Both of these guys are establishmentarians. They\u2019re in the swamp. What do we do?&#8221; I said, &#8220;It\u2019s a good question.&#8221; Let me ask you this. How is Gillespie campaigning? I was gonna say, &#8220;Is Gillespie running as a Bob Corker or a Jeff Flake?&#8221; He is running&#8230; (interruption) Well, you could say, &#8220;Trump light.&#8221; I would just say Gillespie is running as a Trumper on balance. He\u2019s not running as a Never Trumper. He\u2019s not running as what you would think an establishmentarian would be running as.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s running as a conservative &#8212; which he, by the way, happens to be. I know Gillespie. I don\u2019t want to say that too loud. He might consider it harmful to his vote in Virginia. But he\u2019s not running away from Trump is the point, and he\u2019s pulled ahead in this poll, which, if he wins &#8212; and it\u2019s a big if. We don\u2019t know, of course, for a while. But it will prove something. Well, it\u2019ll demonstrate something. It\u2019ll demonstrate that establishment Republicans can win if they get on board the Trump agenda. Now, that\u2019s only half the battle. 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