{"id":273219,"date":"2018-05-07T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=273219"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:57:33","slug":"dems-get-nervous-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/07\/dems-get-nervous-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Get Nervous About Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, in regard to the something going on out there, all these Democrats and all these media types now backing off the whole notion of impeachment. And I mentioned that the polling data is such that they\u2019re getting nervous. Look at this. There is a new poll. This is from… It\u2019s a Reuters poll, and it shows that Trump\u2019s approval rating has spiked, jumped up since April 27th. Reuters has decided to quarantine the data. Reuters has decided not to publish it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The spike shows Trump getting 50% support from swing-voting independents, 80% support from Republicans, and 20% support from Democrats.” And the Reuters\/Ipsos people say (paraphrased), ‘This doesn\u2019t make any sense. This is unexplained,” and so they\u2019re rejecting it. Reuters is telling people… They\u2019re telling people they don\u2019t believe it. They\u2019re rejecting their own poll. When\u2019s last time you saw this? It has happened, by the way. April 27th, again, Reuters\/Ipsos.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s getting “50% support from swing-voter independents, 80% support from Republican supporters, 20% support from Democrats.” Very few people are declaring themselves not sure in the Reuters poll. Reuters is saying they don\u2019t believe it. They are rejecting their own poll. Something is happening. I don\u2019t want to make it sound like there\u2019s something big and dramatic. But I think what\u2019s happening is what has always been there.<\/p>\n

A bunch of people are fed up with the deep state, fed up with Mueller, fed up with the media, fed up with these Obama people, fed up with the villains as they know them, fed up with it — and they\u2019re finally being asked about it now, and they\u2019re answering. I don\u2019t think people are newly outraged at this. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re freshly angry. I think they have been since it all began. But the media and the pollsters think this is all brand-new and it doesn\u2019t make sense to them so they\u2019re spiking this particular poll.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now Reuters has a new poll out showing Trump\u2019s approval numbers are spiking, and they don\u2019t believe it. They think their poll say one-off.<\/p>\n

“No, this is not right.”<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re not putting any stock on it. They just don\u2019t believe it\u2019s true — and you can\u2019t blame \u2019em. Reuters, AP, you name it. They have spent the last 2-1\/2 years doing nothing but trying to destroy Trump. In their minds, it\u2019s not possible — given what they\u2019ve been doing — that Trump\u2019s popularity could be increasing. Just not possible. Trump\u2019s popularity ought to be going down, based on what they are doing. Meaning all the negative stories, all of the relentless ratcheting up of every bit of anti-Trump news they can come up with.<\/p>\n

They just can\u2019t believe that Trump\u2019s numbers are going up. Which takes us to the audio sound bites I have here that will kind of document this. We\u2019re gonna start with Steve Schmidt. Steve Schmidt ran the McCain campaign in 2008. Steve Schmidt remains a very popular Republican consultant. He remains a Republican consultant who has not won, and thus he is a perfect Republican spokesman for MSNBC and other places. He is a famous Never Trumper. He is a fervent and energetic Never Trumper.<\/p>\n

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He has wished for Trump\u2019s demise — political demise — since Trump entered the campaign. Sunday night on Showtime\u2019s The Circus… This is the show with Mark McKinnon and I forget the name. I got a mental block. Mark Halperin was part of this show until they found out he was Harvey Weinstein Jr. So McKinnon says to Schmidt, “What if I were to say to you hypothetically, ‘The Republicans are running with historically low unemployment, historically high consumer confidence, peace is breaking out in the Korean Peninsula\u2019? You can run on peace and prosperity, right?”<\/p>\n

SCHMIDT: For sure, if you had Ronald Reagan as your president! (chortling)<\/p>\n

HOSTS: (cackling)<\/p>\n

SCHMIDT: But not this guy! Unless the race becomes a referendum on impeachment. That\u2019s what could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So what Schmidt is saying… Remember, this guy ran McCain\u2019s campaign. He\u2019s run some other Republican campaigns or been involved in \u2019em. None of them victorious. He\u2019s saying that (summarized), “There\u2019s no way Trump can win on the economy! There\u2019s no way Trump can win on peace in the Korean Peninsula. There\u2019s no way Trump can win with any of the things he\u2019s doing \u2019cause he\u2019s hated and despised.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Trump\u2019s a reprobate. He\u2019s not Reagan. Now, if the Democrats goof up and make impeachment the focal point of their campaign, then Trump could win.” What do you think might be the thinking here? No, seriously. I mean, what is this guy…? He\u2019s a campaign consultant; he obviously believes this. Why is it that Donald Trump cannot win on a great agenda that\u2019s in the process of being implemented and is showing demonstrably great results?<\/p>\n

Historically low unemployment. African-American and Hispanic unemployment is half what it has been. It\u2019s a record low for both demographics. The prospects for end of war threat, nuclear threat in North Korea. Manufacturing jobs returning. Tax cuts. More money in people\u2019s back pockets, the wage increases, tax cuts and bonuses. Why does that not work for Trump, in this guy\u2019s mind? Why…? “Trump can\u2019t run on that.” Why not? Then he turns around and says the only way Trump can win is if Democrats screw up and run on impeaching him.<\/p>\n

These two don\u2019t go together. The only way they go together is if Trump can win on his agenda and the Democrats then start talking about impeaching? That would be a death knell? But you\u2019ll notice the scorn and tone of his voice when the prospect of Trump running on all these successful agenda items. “Are you kidding me? Sure, if he had Reagan, but not this guy!” And here\u2019s Karen Finney.<\/p>\n

Karen Finney is a radical, leftist, angry, Democrat woman. She been in and out of the Hillary campaign, with the Clintons on and off during recent years all the way back to the 1990s. She was on This Week, the roundtable yesterday, the ABC Sunday show, and this is her opinion. She\u2019s now a Democrat strategist. This is her opinion what the Democrats need to do to win in 2018, the midterms in November…<\/p>\n

FINNEY: Rather than sort of poppin\u2019 champagne about a blue wave, it is time for the Democrats to actually focus on a message. We in 2006 talked about “the culture of corruption.” I think they could talk about a culture of corruption on steroids (chortles) here and how it is the Republicans in Congress who are protecting this president. You know, they are trying to halt the Russian investigation. They are protecting all the various things he is doing. That\u2019s closer to a winning message than letting the Republicans make it about impeachment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republicans are making it about impeachment? When did that happen? She\u2019s trying to say the Republicans are accusing the Democrats of running on impeachment. Sorry, but I\u2019ve heard Auntie Maxine. She still can\u2019t stop talking about it. I\u2019ve heard all these Democrats say it! I heard Adam Schiff until he changed his mind. Impeaching Trump has been their go-to thing since Inauguration Day. But then, “I think they could talk about a culture of corruption on steroids here and how it is the Republicans in Congress who are protecting [Trump].<\/p>\n

“You know, they are trying to halt the Russian investigation. They are protecting all the various things he is doing.” Well, that sounds like the kind of stuff you would impeach him for, and yet she\u2019s saying (summarized), “Don\u2019t run on that. We need to focus on a message.” What, the message is that Trump is corrupt and you gotta get rid of him? How does that differ from impeaching, at the end of the day? They don\u2019t have a message. This is their eternal problem.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have a message.<\/p>\n

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Right now, they get to run against historically low unemployment. They get to run against a revival of manufacturing jobs. They get to run against the tax cut. They get to run against a foreign policy that\u2019s accomplishing things that haven\u2019t been accomplished in 30 years in North Korea, South Korea. And they\u2019ve got a new mascot: A porn star in a G-string walking a runway at the Bada Bing with $20 and $100 bills stuffed in her bikini. Stormy Daniels! That\u2019s their new mascot? That\u2019s their agenda? That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna win on?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Fox & Friends today, Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary for George W. Bush, Steve Doocy says, “Is it Russia, Russia, Russia for Democrats? Is that all they\u2019ve got to talk about as we head into the November elections?”<\/p>\n

FLEISCHER: Russia, Russia, Russia is going to be a problem, problem, problem for the Democrats —<\/p>\n

DOOCY: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

FLEISCHER: — unless Mueller\u2019s got the goods. And if Mueller doesn\u2019t, the Democrats are a one-trick pony, and that pony ain\u2019t riding anymore. And it\u2019s not only that. It\u2019s how well the economy\u2019s doing. The fact that we have 3.9% unemployment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n