RUSH: Now, let us move on to another area of attack that came up in the Drive-By Media after the press conference yesterday.\u00a0 During the press conference yesterday, Trump named Republicans who lost by opposing him.\u00a0 He mentioned Mia Love.\u00a0 He mentioned Barbara Comstock.\u00a0 There were a bunch of Republican RINOs who hate Trump, who don\u2019t like Trump tweets. They don\u2019t like Trump\u2019s manners and all that, and they openly ran against Trump in what are considered blue states.<\/p>\n
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They ran in Virginia, other places, and they thought that they would really score some points by beating up on Trump.\u00a0 They ended up losing — and Trump called \u2019em out and pointed out, if they had been on his team, they would have won, like all these people Trump championed in the Senate.\u00a0 Nine out of 11 candidates that Trump supported won.\u00a0 In the process in the Senate — this is a just a big point — gone are a bunch of “I Hate Trump” people.<\/p>\n
Corker\u2019s gone, Flake is gone, McCain is gone.\u00a0 The replacements are people that are gonna owe their elections to Donald Trump and who like him to begin with.\u00a0 Josh Hawley in Missouri is an example.\u00a0 But they just… They think Trump was behaving like Mussolini, by calling out these Republicans that didn\u2019t support him.\u00a0 They think (sputtering), “It\u2019s just outrageous what Trump did.\u00a0 This is… This is dangerous! This guy\u2019s this out of control. It\u2019s Hitler-like, to be calling out people that didn\u2019t support him and like sound like they\u2019re almost being threatened. ”<\/p>\n
A Breitbart story here. And speaking of, look, I spent a lot of time yesterday explaining to you why I think the Republicans lost the House. If you weren\u2019t here yesterday, very briefly, I think a bunch of Republicans decided to retire, 45 of \u2019em, because they believed this blue wave crap that the media and the Democrats began spouting in December of 2017.<\/p>\n
I think many of them are already opposed to Trump. Many of them believed that Trump\u2019s election was an oddity, a one-off and it was some kind of aberration and that everybody hated Trump and that Trump was gonna take the Republican Party down to beneath the gutter, and they didn\u2019t want to be part of it. Paul Ryan was one of \u2019em: I don\u2019t want to be here if the Democrats are gonna win. And so they retired.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s 45 incumbent seats that then became open. And it was so unnecessary. Why believe the media, blue wave stuff. It didn\u2019t happen. It wasn\u2019t gonna happen. But they acted like it was. And I think it was a big, big factor. And at the root of it was a bunch of Republicans that didn\u2019t like Trump, didn\u2019t think Trump was gonna be any good and didn\u2019t think Trump was gonna do anything other than destroy the Republican Party. \u00a0They wanted to get out before any of that happened.<\/p>\n
And of course the exact opposite turns out to be true. Having lost the House, Republicans are now more tied to Trump than ever, whether they like it or not. And a bunch of people who quit the House because they thought Trump was gonna destroy everything saw Trump promoted and sponsored candidates win over in the Senate. And were there some House races that Trump — you know, mayors, mayoral candidates like DeSantis here in Florida.<\/p>\n
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So the Breitbart story, “Trump Pins Down 8 Republicans Who Resisted His Help and Lost in 2018 — President Donald Trump called out the Republican 2018 midterm election candidates who rejected his help and lost their races.” Now, we talked about this yesterday. But I think that Trump did this is fascinating, that he did this, it\u2019s a teachable moment here. There isn\u2019t anybody else who would have pointed this out and called names.<\/p>\n
Can you think of any other Republican president after having, say, lost the House would start blaming people by name, saying this wasn\u2019t necessary, but they thought they had to oppose me and look what happened. Those things are just not done. But here again, Trump is very simple. \u00a0He\u2019s not complicated. You be nice and fair to me and I\u2019m gonna be nice and fair to you. But if you\u2019re gonna come out and undermine me, if you\u2019re gonna rip me to shreds, I\u2019m not gonna take it and I\u2019m gonna fire right back at you. And this is not hard for people to figure out.<\/p>\n
In fact, one time on this show he explained that\u2019s the way he looks at things. If you were not nice to me in the past, I won\u2019t forget that, unless you join me now. If you join me now, I will forget all the mean, negative things about me you\u2019ve ever done. Now, let me tell you why this was important, if you ask me.<\/p>\n
By pointing out who lost and why and by pointing out who won and why, Donald Trump was saying to the entire elected class that he is the path to Republican victory. And I\u2019ll, frankly, wish there were more. I wish it wasn\u2019t all on his shoulders. I wish that the Republicans had some help. Now, this is not to criticize Republicans in the House and Senate who are Trump supporters. I\u2019m not claiming he doesn\u2019t have any.<\/p>\n
It would be great if Trump was not the only guy we could send out. But what he\u2019s doing is building his party. It\u2019s not his fault that he ends up making people winners! \u00a0He\u2019s being blamed for that by the media and the Democrats and being called Mussolini or Stalin-like, but it isn\u2019t his fault that he makes people winners! Because he can make people winners, he\u2019s building the Republican Party, and it is Trump\u2019s party right now. And, boy, do they hate that in elite Beltway establishment circles.<\/p>\n
I think of those 45 Republicans who retired. I think we could have won half of those or more if any of these Republicans had hung in there and if just some of them had embraced Trump. I think Barbara Comstock could have won if she would have embraced Trump. But, no, it wasn\u2019t to be. And we\u2019ll never know, really, for sure. But the evidence is pretty clear that those who did embrace Trump stood with him, wanted him around, wanted him to help him, they did pretty well.<\/p>\n
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And remember, we\u2019re not trying to buy Democrat votes here. This is building the Republican base. There\u2019s nobody that works harder than Trump. Thirty or 35 of those rallies. I was at the one in Missouri, and that was the third one that day. Trump got there at 8:30, landed 8:25, maybe 45, didn\u2019t leave \u2019til after 11. What people don\u2019t see when those things are over, you know what Trump does? \u00a0And you can\u2019t avoid it because nobody can leave until he does.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re backstage in the backstage area wherever the president is, you can\u2019t leave until he does. And when he came offstage after signing autographs there he immediately went to an area where he was posing for one on one photographs with every uniformed police officer that was there, state trooper, security person, anybody working in the arena that was in that segment of it, even if they were concessionaires, he pauses, he took pictures.<\/p>\n
He was in no hurry to get out. At no time did he make anyone anywhere near where he was think he wanted outta there. At no time did he give anybody there the impression he had no time for them. And I know because I was kind of eager to get out there. I was gonna get home late as it was.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0We\u2019ll go to Los Angeles. Kimberly, I\u2019m glad you called. \u00a0Great to have somebody from LA on the phone with us. Always love that. \u00a0How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: \u00a0I am great. \u00a0I am so happy and so proud of you and my president, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0(laughing) Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: \u00a0And I\u2019m very happy that Jeff Sessions had to hit the road.<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0Yeah. You know, that whole thing is kind of unfortunate. \u00a0Jeff Sessions is a fine, fine guy. He just wasn\u2019t, I don\u2019t think —<\/p>\n
CALLER: \u00a0He wasn\u2019t the man for the job. \u00a0He wasn\u2019t the man for the job.<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0Well, it wasn\u2019t what Trump was looking for in the job. \u00a0That\u2019s not to say that Trump wants an attorney general that\u2019s a personal lawyer. \u00a0He just wants a battler in there that — to a bunch of people in the legal establishment, Jeff Sessions may be the best attorney general in their lifetimes. \u00a0To people in the legal establishment who have a reverence for the law and that kind of thing would look at him that way, but he just wasn\u2019t what Trump, I think, thought he was gonna be. \u00a0Anyway, I\u2019m taking away from your time and don\u2019t hurry because I will keep you through the bottom-of-the-hour break here. Go ahead.<\/p>\n
CALLER: \u00a0Okay. I wanted to say that I am an African-American, I live on the West Coast in La La Land.\u00a0 I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and I\u2019m going to vote for him 2020. \u00a0And I just want your listeners to know that African-Americans for Trump exist. We\u2019re not crazy. We don\u2019t think badly of him. \u00a0We embrace him. We think he\u2019s wonderful. And I just thank you for carrying this flag for us, because more and more and more people are gonna get on the Trump train and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0Well, I tell you what.<\/p>\n
CALLER: \u00a0— vote for him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: \u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you how many people are thrilled to hear you say that and hope that it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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