RUSH: Folks, do not doubt me. They think they have won the House in 2018. They hate Trump and so they think everybody else does. The reasons they hate Trump, they think, are the reasons everybody else hates Trump. They hate Republicans and they think they have succeeded with their buddies in the media in making everybody else hate Republicans.<\/p>\n
They think the Virginia gubernatorial election is the sign that the country has admitted its mistake and is ready now to get back to normal and elect Democrats to run Washington, D.C. So they have made this assumption. They want it to be true so badly that they actually think that they are there. And they aren\u2019t. I don\u2019t think the Democrats… I really don\u2019t. The evidence is all around them, but I think they\u2019re in denial. The DNC can\u2019t raise any money.<\/p>\n
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The RNC, as unpopular as it is among rank-and-file Republicans, is outraising the Democrats. The Democrats, the amount of money they\u2019re raising is not worth much more than an asterisk in the most recent reporting. They\u2019re having all kinds of trouble raising money of the $10, $20, $50 variety from average, ordinary Democrats. I mean, they\u2019ve still got their Hollywood, the usual wealthy donors from all the different Democrat groups.<\/p>\n
But they do not have donations of average, run-of-the-mill Democrat voters — the base, if you will. And so they know this, but I don\u2019t think they tell themselves the truth about what it means. They have shown the ability to lie to themselves over and over again for the express purpose of shielding the pain and making themselves feel better. And because they think that they\u2019ve come back, they\u2019re looking at Franken and all these other as a liability.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve won it; 2018, it\u2019s in the bank. But not if Franken stays. So Franken\u2019s gotta go. And then there\u2019s also the Roy Moore calculation that they are making here. But when you look at the news today from ADP Services… You know what ADP is, Automatic Data Processing? It\u2019s the payroll people. “Yesterday ADP Services reported…” Are you ready for this? “…the largest number of new manufacturing jobs in history.” It says here “in history.” I don\u2019t know what period of time.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 40,000 new manufacturing jobs in 10 months. Donald Trump campaigned on bringing manufacturing jobs back. Barack Hussein Obama presided over them being lost, and it wasn\u2019t just Obama presiding over them being lost. When Obama was asked about the jobs, the manufacturing jobs that had been lost, Obama told the nation and Democrats (paraphrased), “They\u2019re not comin\u2019 back, because we\u2019re modernizing and we\u2019re transforming. And those jobs, they\u2019re never coming back because those jobs are not jobs that are gonna be needed anymore.”<\/p>\n
In June of 2016, Barack Obama was asked about jobs for the Carrier corporation in Indiana. And here\u2019s what Obama\u2019s answer was: “When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, who I\u2019m not gonna advertise for –” he\u2019s talking about Trump here. “When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, that he\u2019s gonna bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you gonna do that? What are you gonna do? There\u2019s, uh, uh, uh, no answer to it. Trump just says, ‘I\u2019m gonna negotiate a better deal.\u2019 Well, how? How exactly are you gonna negotiate that? What magic wand does Trump have? And usually the answer is, he doesn\u2019t have an answer.”<\/p>\n
Obama was at the Carrier corporation. He was asked a question about manufacturing jobs being lost. And he chose to castigate Trump for misleading people and lying (imitating Obama), “You can\u2019t bring these jobs back. They\u2019re not coming back.” Forty thousand new manufacturing jobs in 10 months. The people that hold those jobs and the communities in which those jobs have been recreated know it. They live it, it\u2019s a part of their life.<\/p>\n
Look at this. Trump\u2019s agenda and policies, as I previously mentioned, are more conservative than either President Bushes\u2019. Trump\u2019s foreign policy is solid. We have a president who is actually dealing with North Korea rather than kicking it down the road. We have a president who is dealing with China, who is dealing with Japan, rather than status quo and don\u2019t make any waves.<\/p>\n
Deregulation. Trump and his administration have gotten rid of more regulations in 10 months than any previous president ever tried to get rid of, which is zero. Trump\u2019s judicial appointments are game changing. It\u2019s not just Gorsuch. The judges that Trump has appointed to the district court bench and the appellate court, they are better and larger, they\u2019re greater in number than any previous so-called conservative Republican president. And on that score, it isn\u2019t even close.<\/p>\n
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And the more Trump speaks, whether he knows it or not or intends it or not, the more conservative he\u2019s sounding and the more conservatism he\u2019s promoting. And the more he speaks it and the more he promotes it and the more of it in his agenda that happens, the more they attack him. I\u2019m talking about the Never Trumpers.<\/p>\n
Trump gets attacked by the Never Trumpers with each success. “We just don\u2019t like his personality. He\u2019s embarrassing. We can\u2019t go anywhere and admit that we like what Trump is doing because Trump is such a horrible man, and we can\u2019t be seen by our sophisticated friends to be approving of what Trump\u2019s doing.” And that\u2019s what bugs \u2019em.<\/p>\n
But on the things that we all thought mattered, we all thought these conservatives who are Never Trumpers, we thought they were conservative. But they don\u2019t seem to be happy or satisfied with this overwhelming amount of conservatism that Trump is dishing up. He\u2019s aking \u2019em look kind of weak. He\u2019s making \u2019em look dead wrong in their predictions with him and his so-called incompetence and what he was not gonna be able to get done.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s gotten done more than any of them would have gotten done had they been elected. The job market, two consecutive quarters of over 3% economic growth, when the media and Obama said that that would never be possible again. And it was a pipe dream and very, very disingenuous to promise people that because it was not true and it was gonna lead them into massive disappointment.<\/p>\n
The number of deportations is way up. The number of illegals coming into the country is way down. The number of prosecutions and deportations of MS-13, the gang, is way up. All these people have is the Trump dossier and Mueller and his stupid investigation and collusion and Trump\u2019s dishonesty and all whatever it is they want to try to chalk it up to. But on the substance of what Trump is accomplishing here, it infuriates them, both sides, conservative and liberal Never Trumpers.<\/p>\n
And to show you how upset and how mind boggled they are, remember, they thought by now they would have gotten rid of Trump and Pence would be president and they\u2019d be hassling him so much that he would quit. But Trump is still standing. They can\u2019t believe it. They\u2019ve fired everything they\u2019ve got. They\u2019ve made up a dossier. They\u2019ve had all these phony claims from the deep state. You know it all.<\/p>\n
The FBI rigged for Hillary Clinton. The FBI rigged against Donald Trump. He survived it all. He still won the election despite all that was arrayed against him. He still continues to implement an agenda despite all that\u2019s arrayed against him. They can\u2019t believe it. And it\u2019s been so effective that Barack Obama has been reduced to claiming that if we don\u2019t stop Trump, we\u2019re headed for Nazi Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: We\u2019ve got Obama from back in June of 2016. PBS special questions for Obama. This is a NewsHour special. Town hall event in Elkhart, Indiana, where he got a question about the carrier corporation from a Carrier employee. He said, “You know, I see where you\u2019re trying to do a lot of things, but in Indianapolis there\u2019s nothing there for us anymore. I mean, what\u2019s next? What can we look forward to in the future as far as jobs, employment, whatever, \u2019cause all of our jobs have left or are in the process leaving.” This is smack-dab in the middle of the campaign, folks, and here\u2019s Obama\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n