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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now let\u2019s go to further news that buttresses some of this. From TheHill.com: “Red State Democrats Face Nightmare Scenario on Kavanaugh.” This article shows beyond a doubt the Democrats have brought up all of these unfounded sexual allegations and now Kavanaugh… Do you realize the latest defense? The New York Times has run a story saying that Brett Kavanaugh threw ice on a fellow bar patron back in his days at Yale. (paraphrased) “He threw ice! This goes to show just how unfit to the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh is.<\/p>\n
Of course, the New York Times when learning that Bill Clinton told Juanita Broaddrick, “Put a little ice on your lip,” while walking out of the room after allegedly raping her, they thought that was not worthy of being published or printed. There wasn\u2019t enough to that. “I mean, put some ice on that lip, babe”? Ah, no news there! But Kavanaugh throwing ice, allegedly, on a bar patron? “Stop the presses! The guy is evil. He is not qualified.” So all these unfounded sexual allegations, they hope ultimately will work. What all this has been about is they\u2019re hoping to force Kavanaugh to drop out.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s what they have… Just like the Mueller investigation. The Mueller investigation was designed to depress Trump\u2019s approval numbers so that Trump would have to resign because of total loss of support in Washington by Republicans. If they could get his approval numbers down to the twenties because they succeeded in making everybody think that Trump cheated with the Russians, then Trump would lose all support (as Nixon did in the Watergate era) and have to resign. That was the objective.<\/p>\n
Because there\u2019s no way they were gonna impeach Trump. There no way the Mueller investigation is gonna lead to Trump being indicted. The only hope they had was to drive public approval for Trump way down to twenties and be done with him. What they\u2019re trying to do here is force Kavanaugh to resign from the nomination, withdraw, or to force Trump to withdraw. That and delay. They still hope that they can force Kavanaugh out. “A second Democrat…” This from the article here at TheHill.com.<\/p>\n
“A second Democratic senator said there\u2019s widespread disbelief in the caucus that Kavanaugh is holding on. ‘I just had a conversation with a colleague who said they couldn\u2019t believe he hasn\u2019t dropped out yet,\u2019 the second lawmaker said Monday evening.” That\u2019s a quote from an unnamed senator in the story at TheHill.com. This isn\u2019t going well. David French at National Review, a Never Trumper — maybe the leader of the Never Trumpers — nevertheless has a piece claiming the Kavanaugh case is collapsing.<\/p>\n
“The Case Against Kavanaugh Is Collapsing,” because the witnesses don\u2019t have any evidence! They\u2019ve got no proof of anything! Swetnick? Ramirez? Ford? Add it all up and there\u2019s zero corroboration — and one of these women appears to be not all there. The Swetnick babe… Details forthcoming. So hoping Kavanaugh would withdraw — hoping Trump would pull the nomination — has been one of the objectives here, along with delay, delay, delay.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t worked.<\/p>\n Kavanaugh won\u2019t cave, and the number of arrows they have in their quiver is dwindling. “The Democrats in the toughest position are Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Joe Donnelly (Indiana) and Joe Manchin (West Virginia). Heitkamp and Manchin are undecided, and both are seeking another six-year term in states that Trump won by double digits in 2016.” I\u2019m back to the crowds that Trump is drawing: 92,000 requests for tickets Johnson City, Tennessee, and 20,000 people show up.<\/p>\n People line up two days in advance to hope to get in. It kind of flies in the face of Trump\u2019s losing his luster out there. So Donnelly, Heitkamp, Manchin. Now, you might say, well, equalize Susan Collins? Susan Collins is saying, “I — I — I want the FBI to investigate the gang rape allegation.” They have been! The babe Swetnick is… She\u2019s not withdrawing it but she\u2019s saying, “Well, maybe Kavanaugh wasn\u2019t raping. He was standing outside. This is too big a coincidence.”<\/p>\n So she\u2019s pulling back on the allegation that he started and organized and then participated in the gang rapes. What more do you need, Ms. Collins? She doesn\u2019t have any evidence! She\u2019s backing off of it. Avenatti\u2019s doing damage control now. “Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill Falls Behind GOP Opponent After Opposing Kavanaugh.<\/a>”<\/p>\n Polling data doesn\u2019t suggest any of this is gonna happen. Republican candidate in Missouri, Josh Hawley leads. McCaskill is now far behind. One poll shows her far behind Hawley. “According to The Federalist, the new poll by Remington Research Group … ‘48% said they were planning to vote for … Hawley while 46% said they planned to vote for McCaskill.'” That is way below how McCaskill has been performing.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The Drive-By Media, ladies and gentlemen, continuing to trying to make this investigation that\u2019s supposed to be over in a week as confusing as possible. President Trump said back on Friday that he was leaving all this to the Senate. Totally backed away from it.<\/p>\n Now, I have an article here at TheHill.com that says the White House is denying everything. They\u2019re denying that they\u2019re calling the shots, and they\u2019re denying expanding the scope. Trump did not expand the scope. He simply reacted at a rally to what the media is saying. He got a little suckered in by NBC News reporting a bunch of fake news that the White House was limiting the scope. Trump\u2019s, “I\u2019m not limiting anything.” That became, “White House expands scope,” which is what the Democrats want. A whole bunch of fake news in this that we will straighten out today.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100218-NY-Times.jpg\")
<\/a>The story from TheHill.com: “Senate Democrats up for reelection this year in deep-red states face a nightmare decision on how to handle Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Vulnerable Democrats are hoping Republicans will force him to withdraw his nomination, allowing them to avoid politically divisive votes.” This an important point. It has not been stressed enough. The Democrats thought that by running with every disgusting allegation they could find no matter how unsubstantiated, they would be able to force Kavanaugh to drop out or force Trump to withdraw his name.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100218-Rush-EIB-Bronze.jpg\")
It\u2019s their problem, their issue. Let them handle it. But now the New York Times and the Washington Post, the rest of the Drive-Bys are claiming the White House is calling the shots behind the scenes and expanding the scope of the FBI\u2019s inquiry. Made this point yesterday. New York Times could not wait to run the story, White House expanding inquiry. It came the same day we had a leak from Fox News that the FBI said they\u2019re ready to wrap up today. A lot of people reacting to that, by the way.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, Trump just left the White House. He was on the lawn on the way to the helicopter. He stopped and talked to the press, as he always does. CNN focused on one thing that Trump said, and then Trump said, “Well, yeah, if Kavanaugh is discovered to have lied to the committee, yeah, then he\u2019s done. That\u2019s not news. But the press… Trump said much else, but that\u2019s all they focused on which, of course is a no-brainer. So now they\u2019re out trying to find where Kavanaugh\u2019s committed perjury and that\u2019s why they\u2019re focusing on belligerent drunkenness and throwing ice at people and so forth.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Flag-Wave-BW-009.jpg\")
I\u2019m telling you, these people on in the media who have so much invested in their power, in their self-esteem related to their power that when they see evidence that people are ignoring what they say, it hurts \u2019em to the quick. It disturbs them. Any time you can demonstrate to them that what they\u2019re trying to make you think isn\u2019t working, you will succeed in upsetting them — and you might even get lucky enough to hear \u2019em talk about it, as I just did on CNN.<\/p>\n