{"id":253943,"date":"2017-11-07T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=253943"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:05:31","slug":"one-year-later-drive-by-stunned-by-notion-trump-would-still-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/07\/one-year-later-drive-by-stunned-by-notion-trump-would-still-win\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later: A Look Back at the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “Twelve Months Later, Trump Would Probably Still Win the 2016 Election.<\/a>” That\u2019s the headline of a piece in the Washington Post today. This is a bombshell story, when you measure this against nearly universal coverage from the Drive-By Media for the past year.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Trump\u2019s an idiot! Trump\u2019s a buffoon! Trump stole the election! He cheated. He colluded with Russia. Trump is hated. Trump\u2019s approval numbers are down in the toilet. Trump\u2019s this; Trump\u2019s that. People hate Trump. Trump\u2019s a pig.” I\u2019m sure you can add to the list. That has been the basic focus of news in the past 12 months, and here comes the Washington Post: “Twelve Months Later, Trump Would Probably Still Win the 2016 Election.” Now, I\u2019m telling you, you put this out there on Yahoo News or where Millennials and others get their news, I\u2019m gonna tell you this is gonna destroy them.<\/p>\n

The left has done an incredible job of convincing people that Trump is about to be thrown out of office, that most people want Trump thrown out of office, that Trump didn\u2019t even really win the election because he cheated and stole by colluding with Russia. So I think the Drive-Bys are gonna hide this, but it\u2019s in the Washington Post. It\u2019s by Aaron Blake. “It has been almost exactly one year since President Trump shocked the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. And he might well do it again today.”<\/p>\n

That is the focus of this story. Trump would win today if the election were held today. “Confronted with the events of the past 12 months and even Trump\u2019s unprecedented unpopularity — 59% disapprove of his presidency — a new poll shows that 2016 voters look as though they\u2019d still pick Trump, albeit about as narrowly as they did before.” So what\u2019s wrong with that? How can there be 59% disapproval and yet Trump would still win? Those two things don\u2019t go together, but they are in the same poll.<\/p>\n

“The Washington Post-ABC News poll asked respondents how they\u2019d vote in a redo of the 2016 election, and, if anything, Clinton seems to have lost more ground than Trump.” Now, that doesn\u2019t surprise you and doesn\u2019t surprise me. But here at the Washington Post, the Drive-Bys, that blows them away! Remember the world in which they live and the one they construct for themselves. And I just told you what it is. Hillary should have won; everybody now wishes she had. Trump stole the election, colluded with Russia. Trump is a pig, Trump is a barbarian, Trump is massively unpopular! Everyone hates Trump!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the world they\u2019ve created; that\u2019s the world they live in. They get this poll from the ABC News\/Washington Post polling unit and shows that Hillary is even less popular? Oh, and you throw in the Brazile book — and there are more developments on that today, which we\u2019ll get into. “Among those who voted, 46% say they picked Clinton last year. Forty-three percent picked Trump. But in a head-to-head rematch, Clinton\u2019s support drops more than Trump\u2019s does, and they wind up at a 40-40 tie. Given that Trump overperformed in key blue-leaning swing states, that means he\u2019s probably win again.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Now to me, I\u2019m not buying into this \u2019til Nate Silver says so. (chuckling) Nate Silver. A 93% chance Hillary wins the election tonight, said Nate Silver about 4 o\u2019clock on Election Day. “Interestingly, Clinton actually seems to have lost that ground because of disillusioned Democrats. [J]ust 72% of Democrats said they would vote for Clinton [again] — vs. the 84% who said they did vote for Clinton last year.” She has lost ground because of disillusioned Democrats: 72% of the people voted for her this time in this makeshift poll. That\u2019s down from 84% that did vote for her last year.<\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s share of the Republican Party, meanwhile, dropped just five points from 89% who said they did vote for him to 84% who said they would do it again,” and that\u2019s margin-of-error stuff. Trump has not lost any Republican voters, is the bottom line. I keep trying to tell people this. I keep trying to tell the Drive-Bys: You have spent a year trying to separate Trump from his voters, and you haven\u2019t done it — and you\u2019ve thrown everything you\u2019ve got and then some, and it still hasn\u2019t worked.<\/p>\n

I mean, we\u2019ve had 92% negative coverage of Trump. We\u2019ve had overwhelmingly positive fawning, licking, you name it, positive coverage of Hillary, and it hasn\u2019t mattered. Hillary will perform worse in a fictional election held today. Does this mean that Americans are becoming media-proof? I think so, in certain ways. ‘Cause this media\u2019s just over the top. This is just… CNN? Tucker Carlson last night, Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on his Fox show…<\/p>\n

You know, he used to work at CNN (he did Crossfire) and he\u2019s still got some contacts over there and he\u2019s reported on Fox last night that CNN executives ordered on-air talent to beat up Donna Brazile. CNN reporters and on-air people — the talent — were told to rip Brazile a new one and that Hillary was to be defended, and Chatsworth reported that last night on his Fox show. By the way, Clinton, in this poll, loses 10 points of support from nonwhite voters.<\/p>\n

\"\"Uh-oh. The breadbasket of the Democrat Party is minority voters. And in a fictional election in this poll that would take place now, she loses 10 points. “The utility of this question,” says the Washington Post, “is limited. Clintons seems to be done with running for office, and there will not be a redo of the 2016 election. The question –” well, all of this is hypothetical. What the hell are we talking about? It\u2019s all hypothetical. So when we get the bad result of the hypothetical, ah, doesn\u2019t matter, she\u2019s not running again.<\/p>\n

Tell her she\u2019s not running again. She\u2019s the only one that doesn\u2019t know, apparently. If you ask me you see Hillary in a muumuu and she\u2019s out there in the pantsuits, there\u2019s no question, in her mind she\u2019s running again. Now, a brief time-out. When we come back the Drive-By Media on TV sent some reporters out, they sent some celebrities out, they sent some analysts out there into blue states that voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

They were hoping to find a bunch of angry Democrats who had voted for Trump who were fed up with Trump, who hate Trump, who despise Trump, who were embarrassed at the way they voted and they can\u2019t wait to vote for the next Democrat president, except they can\u2019t find any.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now I want to get back to our look-back at one year ago, the election. We left off with the fact that the Drive-Bys are desperately looking for any sign that Trump would lose the election, that Trump is hated, that Trump\u2019s despised.<\/p>\n

That they have successfully separated Trump voters from Trump, that they\u2019ve demonized Trump and so successfully and so badly that Trump voters now hate him and would never vote for him again. And in their alternative universe they\u2019ve created, they believe it. So they sent some people out to blue, Democrat states where Democrats voted for Trump to try to find any evidence that these people hate Trump now and would abandon him. Our first example is from the Today show today. Nicolle Wallace reporting Trump voters continued support for Trump in the country. She talks to some of these people out there, and that\u2019s what you will hear.<\/p>\n