{"id":297386,"date":"2019-01-23T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297386"},"modified":"2019-02-23T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T14:08:46","slug":"pointless-poll-say-trump-cant-beat-any-democrat-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/23\/pointless-poll-say-trump-cant-beat-any-democrat-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointless Poll Says Trump Can\u2019t Beat Any Democrat in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: TheHill.com. Here\u2019s the headline: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/426421-poll-trump-trails-dem-2020-candidates\">Trump Trails Several Possible 2020 Democrat Opponents in Latest Poll.<\/a>&#8221; What is this? It\u2019s January 22nd, yesterday. The story came out last night. It\u2019s January 23, 2019. The election is 23 months away. The things that are gonna happen between now and the election are unpredictable. We can\u2019t possibly know.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re gonna have an impact on the election. I mean, we don\u2019t even know who the Democrat nominee is, and we\u2019ve already got polling data: &#8220;Trump Trails Several Possible 2020 Democrat Opponents in Latest Poll.&#8221; Seriously? Seriously? Here are the numbers, and it\u2019s from our old buddies, the left-wing rag of polling, Public Policy Polling. Trump trails Senator Kamala Harris by seven points. I guess that means Trump should just give up. Trump trails Fauxcahontas by six points. That\u2019d be Elizabeth Warren. Trump trails Kirsten Gillibrand!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-FEATURED-IMAGE-SIZE-010719-Trump-Wink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-FEATURED-IMAGE-SIZE-010719-Trump-Wink.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-FEATURED-IMAGE-SIZE-010719-Trump-Wink-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Gillibrand doesn\u2019t have a prayer of getting the Democrat Party nomination. She\u2019s too blonde and she\u2019s too white and she\u2019s not too bright. She doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Biden\u2019s not gonna get it because &#8212; and they are saying this, not me. Biden isn\u2019t gonna get it because of age and health. I\u2019m not saying that. I don\u2019t know Plugs. But they do, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. I can tell you right now, it\u2019s not gonna be Kirsten Gillibrand. (laughing) So it doesn\u2019t matter whether Trump\u2019s trailing. It doesn\u2019t matter any of this &#8212; and yet there it is, a big news story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s picked up by the AP, picked up by Yahoo News, picked up all over the place. And then Twitter starts reacting to this, and by two hours after this is published we\u2019re totally out of control again. Trump &#8220;also trails several top progressive leaders who are speculated&#8230;&#8221; Why, Trump\u2019s even behind people that haven\u2019t declared. Do you know that? Trump is so hated, Trump is so reviled, Trump is so disgusting that he even trails Democrats and &#8220;progressives&#8221; that haven\u2019t even announced their nomination attempts yet!<\/p>\n<p>He trails Biden. He trails Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s approval numbers, you know what they are? They\u2019re 45%. In the midst of all of this! Two years of everyday, multiple-times-a-day character assassination, slander, and libel on issue after issue after issue &#8212; and 92% negative media coverage solid every day, every week, every month for the whole year &#8212; and he\u2019s at 45%. But it doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s already lost. He\u2019s trailing every Democrat who wants the Democrat nomination. I mean, it\u2019s sophistry. It\u2019s insulting to our intelligence. But that\u2019s what we have to deal with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: . The election is 23 months away. The things that are gonna happen between now and the election are unpredictable. 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