{"id":266860,"date":"2018-03-07T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=266860"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:06:31","slug":"there-was-a-red-wave-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/07\/there-was-a-red-wave-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was a Red Wave in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So going into the primary yesterday, we were told that this was going to be where we would all learn that the end for Trump is just months away. It was going to be the perfect storm built by the perfect recipes. Here we have a classic red state. And this red state has the kind of people in it that the left has never been able to beat. And they don\u2019t like \u2019em.<\/p>\n

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These are Texans. And they hunt, and they fish, they have guns, they drive big cars, they talk big, they live big, and they are, a vast majority, Republican. But Texas, Texas was gonna go blue in the primary yesterday<\/a> because even that state was going to demonstrate how everybody finally has had their fill of Trump. Trump is now hated. Texas going blue would be the equivalent of North Korea adopting conservatism.<\/p>\n

And it was gonna happen. It was only a matter of waiting for the votes to be tallied, because the hatred and disapproval of Trump is universal even in big, red Republican states. And this was going to be the harbinger. This was going to be the great indicator. This was going to be where we were going to learn how big a midterm election victory the Democrats were going to have in November. Did it happen?<\/p>\n

Well, let me read to you a tweet here from the polling wizard at the New York Times. His name is Nate Cohn. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s related to Gary Cohn but it\u2019s spelled the same. Nate Cohn: “It\u2019s nearly a 20-point GOP lead in the Texas primary. Democrat areas are still disproportionally left to report. … GOP edge now at about 22 points, 61 to 39 percent. Dems should gain back some ground, but I suspect this won\u2019t prove to be the night they were imagining. None of their top candidates are posting great numbers. And this doesn\u2019t look like the vote of a ‘blue\u2019 Texas.”<\/p>\n

(Gasp!) Once again, the left building up their charges, building up their supporters, building up their voters. This was gonna be where all of this anger and all of this rage — and all of that anger and rage justified, because Trump is an absolute SOB. It\u2019s right to hate Trump. It\u2019s healthy to hate Trump. Trump is a hateful figure. And Texas? Texas was going to be where the first wave of anti-Trump hate was seen at the ballot box, and there was gonna be enough of it to turn Texas into a Democrat stronghold. It\u2019s 61 to 39 GOP to Democrat.<\/p>\n

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New York Times: “I suspect this won\u2019t prove to be the night they were imagining. None of their top candidates are posting great numbers. And this doesn\u2019t look like the vote of a ‘blue\u2019 Texas.” And then there\u2019s this blog post: “Texas Primaries Boast Record Turnout but Democrats Fall Short<\/a> — The 1.5 million Republican voters who turned out for the Texas primaries exceeds the previous record of 1.4 million in 2010.” Wait a minute! I thought the Republicans were dejected; the Republicans were depressed!<\/p>\n

The Republicans knew they had made a mistake in electing Trump, and the Republicans were guilty and feeling ashamed. The Republicans were not motivated at all. The Republicans were feeling depressed, and they were just gonna stay home. The Democrats? They were the ones motivated! They were the ones energized. They were gonna go out and they were gonna make mincemeat of the entire opposition. The Republican Party was so depressed, it wasn\u2019t even gonna show up — and yet what really happened? A record Republican turnout in Texas!<\/p>\n

Now, maybe not a record, but it exceeded… Yes, it was because the previous record was 1.4 million seven years ago. Do you know what\u2019s interesting about seven years ago? It was 2010. What\u2019s…? Does 2010 ring any bells, folks? 2010, Tea Party, midterm elections. 2010 is when the Democrats\u2019 gigantic electoral losses began in the House, in the Senate, statehouses, governorships, the Democrats lost a total of 1,300 seats nationwide between 2010-2016, and that\u2019s when it began, 2010 — 2010, record Republican turnout, 1.4 million Texas.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, that record was beaten: 1.5 million Republican voters. It wasn\u2019t a Republican high-energy primary. 2010 is also when Ted Cruz got the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Well, now, wait. The Democrats did have a record turnout, but it was nowhere near the Republican turnout, and here\u2019s another little statistic for you, ladies and gentlemen. Are you ready for this? If you take the combined votes in the Democrat primary, Ted Cruz beats them all. Ted Cruz earned 85% of the Republican vote.<\/p>\n

If you add up the three Democrats in the Senate primary — Beto O\u2019Rourke, Sema Hernandez, and Edward Kimbrough — those three don\u2019t even total 800,000. Ted Cruz with 1.1 million. Ted Cruz beat every Democrat running combined. This was not supposed to happen. This was not supposed to… We were supposed to learn last night that Ted Cruz is gonna lose in November. Look, there\u2019s a lot of meaning to this, but I\u2019m out of time.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So how do you get a record Republican turnout when the political science experts tell us that in off-year elections the party out of power cleans up? How does this happen? How do you get a record Republican turnout when the media was telling us that the Republicans are gonna stay home, they were depressed, they were down in the dumps, realized what a mistake they made with Trump, that the Democrats were energized?<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019re looking at a potential repeat of 2002 here. We\u2019ve got everything including a rehash of the Wellstone memorial, and the Democrats are not through irritating people. You know, for you people in the media — and I don\u2019t mind giving you this heads up because I know you can\u2019t help yourselves. You cannot stop your roll. You cannot stop making the mistakes you\u2019re making because you are behaving irrationally.<\/p>\n

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So you\u2019re not gonna listen to a rational suggestion from me. But you\u2019re forgetting something. You\u2019re forgetting there\u2019s another team on the field, and that team on the field is Republicans and Trump supporters, and you\u2019re forgetting that they have not grown tired of Trump. Trump still is what he was when he was running for president. He\u2019s the only thing standing between us and you people on the left ruining this country.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t lost any enthusiasm for stopping you, and the more insane you get — the more ludicrous, the more hate-filled, the more reactions like you had to the shooting in Florida, the more filth you produce in Hollywood, the more rotgut you demand we accept — the more energized we all get. You\u2019re not depressing us. You are ticking us off. And if you think Republicans and Trump supporters are gonna sit home because you have us depressed and thinking Trump\u2019s gone and that Trump\u2019s an idiot, you still don\u2019t know what hit you in 2016.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re not careful, the same thing that happened to you in 2002 is gonna happen to you in November. You\u2019re gonna wake up, and you\u2019re gonna lose 20 of those 25 Senate seats. You may have all the enthusiasm in the world. You may have all the hate-generated voter turnout you can produce. But the other side? Us? We\u2019re not sitting on the sidelines. And the more hate you gin up, the more rancor you create, the more chaos — the more your media insults us each and every day — that\u2019s all that much more energy we\u2019re all gonna have to show up and vote in November.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what\u2019s you\u2019re not factoring. And don\u2019t get mad at me for advising them, folks, \u2019cause they can\u2019t help themselves. They can\u2019t stop. They can\u2019t! They\u2019re on a mission to destroy Donald Trump. They can\u2019t stop themselves. They think they\u2019re living in a world where there isn\u2019t much opposition to them. That\u2019s why this election of 2016 is so weird. They don\u2019t get it. “How can we lose? We\u2019re the majority! We\u2019re it.” They haven\u2019t the slightest idea the world in which they really live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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