{"id":291765,"date":"2018-11-12T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=291765"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:32:42","slug":"florida-we-counted-every-vote-and-democrats-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/12\/florida-we-counted-every-vote-and-democrats-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida: We Counted Every Vote and Democrats Lost!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Based on my wanderings around over the weekend, I think I know what many of you are asking. I know what many of you are discussing. Why is it that all of these elections that were called for Republicans are now too close to call? How does that happen? How do Republicans win these close elections and then all of a sudden they become too close to call, and concessions are rescinded, and all the newfound ballots that nobody knew existed on election night just magically happen to be Democrat ballots?<\/p>\n

And they find \u2019em in schoolrooms. And they find \u2019em in airports. They find \u2019em in Avis rent-a-cars and they find out the people that had \u2019em in the Avis rent-a-cars happen to be very good, big buddies with the sheriff of Broward County, this Israel guy who was deeply involved in whatever the shooting incident was down there at the school. And we find out that it\u2019s the election supervisor down in Broward County, who gets reelected.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way you can get rid of the babe. She continually gets reelected. She has routinely been found to count blank ballots, to hide ballots that didn\u2019t go the way she wanted them to go. It\u2019s wide open. Everybody knows. So you\u2019re asking, “How does this get stopped? How does it even happen?” So now on election night we had a concession in the Florida governor\u2019s race, but ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! Not anymore. We had a concession in the Senate race in Florida. Ah, ah, ah! Not anymore.<\/p>\n

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And then Arizona. Arizona is a different story, and the Georgia governor. That\u2019s a slam dunk and they\u2019re trying to walk that back and now Stacey Abrams says she\u2019s got secret information that\u2019s gonna wipe out her opponent, Mr. Kemp. Greetings, my friends. How you doing? Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone at 800-282-2882. So I\u2019ve begun the process of printing up an honorary degree from the Limbaugh Institute for Ron DeSantis, who won, but now it may become a collector\u2019s item.<\/p>\n

Really. Here\u2019s where we are in those two races. In the governor\u2019s race, as of election night and I think going into the recount, DeSantis had a 33,000-vote advantage. Now, when you look at it out of eight million votes cast, it\u2019s kind of seems, “not very many votes Rush.” And it\u2019s even smaller number in the Senate race, Rick Scott, 12,000-plus over Staple Face, Bill Nelson. But, folks, when you start getting into… These are machine recounts. When you start getting… Thirty-three thousand votes is a lot to overcome.<\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s a lot of votes to be wrong. In a sane world, I don\u2019t care what the percentage margin of votes it is, 33,000 votes? That would be one hell of a fraud job, and to reverse… For 33,000 votes to be wrong? We\u2019re talking… That would be phenomenal. You could almost say the same about 12,000 votes. Twelve-thousand votes wrong in any universe you want, 12,000 votes or 33,000. So the effort here at the recount to wipe out victories of 33,000 and 12,000, it ought not be possible.<\/p>\n

I mean, these are machine counts, and those kind of mistakes… Stop and think of recounts, look at the Florida recount in 2000. I mean, that was 253. You know, that\u2019s a little different. And the Kennedy-Nixon in 1960, that was two states. It was West Virginia, Chicago. We know that games were played there. It\u2019s been admitted to. But this is a lot of votes to be wrong. And so they should hold up. But nobody\u2019s confident that they\u2019re gonna hold up.<\/p>\n

You know who\u2019s confident they\u2019re gonna hold up? I find this fascinating. If you go talk to the people that I say are in the conservative intelligentsia, the intellectuals, the conservative media, the people who do not think the country is in crisis, I don\u2019t know how you do not think that. All you have to do is look at an electoral map, but still you know that there are people on our side whose major disagreement with us is that they don\u2019t think that we\u2019re in any kind of a crisis.<\/p>\n

“This is just the ebb and flow of politics. You win some; you lose some. It all evens out over time, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, but what about the demographics?”<\/p>\n

“Ah, we can… Demographics, shmenographics! We can make just the big a play for those voters as the Democrats can. We should be afraid of people coming in the country. Our message should resonate if our message is good… Blah, blah, blah. There\u2019s no crisis.” And those are the people telling me, “Rush, there\u2019s no way the Democrats can erase a 33,000 vote margin,” and I just look at \u2019em. You know, on paper, that sounds exactly right. A 33,000 vote margin should be… Are there that many mistakes? No! There just aren\u2019t, and there are not 12,000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rules that stipulate recounts when margins of victory get below certain percentages, like one half of 1% or 1%. But the total number of votes here in Florida and even in Georgia make these recount efforts essentially hopeless. But they\u2019re not because he know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, one of the things back to the recount mania here in Florida, the defeated gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is now making one of my warnings on Friday come true as loudly and vividly as possible<\/a>. I want to go back, grab audio sound bite number 1. I want to remind you of a major, major point that I made in discussing the ongoing recount and how the left is gonna handle this, the terminology they use and what it actually means.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: So when Gillum or anybody starts talking about \u201ccount every vote,\u201d it means including the provisional ballots. If it hasn\u2019t happened yet, it will very soon, and it will be done the way the left always does. The provisional ballots will be cast by minorities, people of color, the poor, women and children, whoever are the protected class. The people that are always getting the excrement sandwich in life in America will be those who have cast the provisional ballot.<\/p>\n

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And because these are people that are downtrodden, homeless, hungry, thirsty, we need to really, really, really count them. They need to participate in our process. So the move will be to count every provisional ballot as legitimate and eligible. \u201cCount every vote\u201d is a dog whistle for \u201cwe need to find more votes,\u201d not votes that have been cast. We\u2019re looking for ways to add to vote totals. We are looking for ways to actually cast ballots. That\u2019s what all of this means, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. It is exactly right. And Andrew Gillum is running around running around Florida now, and that\u2019s his mantra, count every vote, count every vote. What it\u2019s — it\u2019s designed to appeal to average, ordinary people not following through who are being made to believe that some votes are not being counted! The effort here is to make it look like Rick Scott and DeSantis and the Republicans are trying to not count ballots. That\u2019s the purpose of this. So they\u2019re running around saying, \u201cCount every ballot! Count every ballot!\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s made to look like some votes are being suppressed, and whose votes would those? Why, people of color of course and women and children and minorities. There\u2019s a pychological component to this. “Count every vote” is not really a requirement. They\u2019re not talking to Brenda Snipes. Brenda Snipes doesn\u2019t need to be told count every vote down in Broward County. She knows what\u2019s going on. It is meant for the media to use that as a psychological message to the great unwashed that somebody\u2019s trying to not count every vote.<\/p>\n

And so count every vote, why, that\u2019s the epitome of democracy. Why, it\u2019s the epitome of fairness. Why, it\u2019s the epitome of what\u2019s right and just. And, of course, who\u2019s standing for this and calling for it? Why, our good friends, the Democrats. When in fact it\u2019s all caca. “Count every vote” is nothing more than a trick to make people think dastardly, evil Republicans are not counting every vote. Here\u2019s an illustration again. This is a montage. We put it together very quickly of “count every vote,” all kinds of people in the media and in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

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BAKARI SELLERS: In Georgia, Arizona, and Florida, Democrats have to have the same message: just make sure every single vote is counted.<\/p>\n

CHUCK SCHUMER: Every vote should be counted.<\/p>\n

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: We need to count the votes.<\/p>\n

ED HENRY: (newsroom noise) Count all the votes.<\/p>\n

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: I want every vote counted.<\/p>\n

JANE HARMAN: Every vote has to be counted. Tom Perez: Every vote must be counted.<\/p>\n

CORNELL BELCHER: Count every vote.<\/p>\n

CHERI BUSTOS: Every vote ought to count.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s not counting them? We have media people in this. “Count every vote.” What is this? Where is the idea we\u2019re not counting every vote? We did count every vote on election night, and the Republicans won the Senate and the governorship in Florida! So now it\u2019s recounts have been triggered, and so they\u2019re looking for additional votes, and they\u2019re trying to make sure every provisional ballot, eligible or not, gets counted. “Count every vote.”<\/p>\n

Well, who isn\u2019t? Who hasn\u2019t? Have you seen an allegation that votes are not being counted? I\u2019ll bet\u2019s the opposite, that the allegation is that votes we didn\u2019t know we had are being discovered, like in a schoolroom in Miramar. Or a box load of provision ballots in an Avis rent-a-car rented by a Democrat activist at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport, which they created all kinds of havoc there last night by attempting to shut the place down with a potential bomb threat, and it was nothing more than a box of provisional ballots.<\/p>\n

So you see how this works. “Count every vote! Count….” Has there been an allegation that we haven\u2019t counted every vote? Was there some controversy on election night? Why would Gillum and Nelson have conceded if there were some question that every vote hadn\u2019t been counted, hmm? Well, there was no such controversy. There was no such allegation. There was no such supposition. There wasn\u2019t any suspicion that every vote has not been counted.<\/p>\n

So what the hell is this? It\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m telling you. It\u2019s an attempt to create, in the minds of the public, which ends up then supporting whatever the Democrats say needs to be done. Trick here is to make it look like there\u2019s somebody out there trying to suppress votes. And the Democrats are standing up for democracy. “Count every vote! Count every vote.” Every vote has been counted, and the Democrats lost.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: More from Rick Scott. This again from Fox & Friends this morning. He\u2019s talking to Steve Doocy, who asked Scott, “How did they come up with 93,000 votes after election night in Palm Beach and also in Broward County? How did they come up with that many votes after election night?”<\/p>\n