{"id":304664,"date":"2019-04-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=304664"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:29:58","slug":"democrats-shocked-by-mayor-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/01\/democrats-shocked-by-mayor-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Shouldn\u2019t Be Shocked by Mayor Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Yeah. You know what\u2019s funny, they\u2019re all shocked, Mr. Snerdley. They can\u2019t figure it out. They can\u2019t figure out how this guy raised $7 million in his first quarter. They can\u2019t figure it out. Where\u2019d he come from? Who is this guy? The Democrat primary group continues to be shocked by the performance of some of the lower-tier candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Great to have you with us, folks, kicking off a brand-new week of broadcast excellence. Telephone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/f202e28d999d306780edd041ae17212a5c433b42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/f202e28d999d306780edd041ae17212a5c433b42.png 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/f202e28d999d306780edd041ae17212a5c433b42-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CNBC has the story. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/01\/pete-buttigieg-announces-7-million-fundraising-haul-in-first-quarter.html\">Democratic Presidential Longshot Pete Buttigieg Announces $7 Million Fundraising Haul in First Quarter.<\/a>\u201d The amount is turning heads given Mayor Pete\u2019s low name recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than half of registered voters haven\u2019t heard of him.\u201d Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Pete, age 37, barely qualified on the age scale, \u201cseemed to come from nowhere to catapult into the middle tier of Democrats competing,\u201d for the 2020 nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly polls have Buttigieg, who formed an exploratory committee,\u201d with his husband, \u201cin late January, tied with Sen. Amy Klobuchar,\u201d she of staff brutality, \u201cD-Minn., in seventh among declared and potential candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-021318-Rush-is-Right.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-021318-Rush-is-Right.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-021318-Rush-is-Right-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t figure out where it came from. Well, it was back on March something or other, first weekend, second weekend in March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/12\/keep-your-eye-out-for-mayor-pete\/\">I warned everybody<\/a> on this program, \u201cKeep a sharp eye out on Mayor Pete, keep a sharp eye out for this guy,\u201d because I had watched him perform in one of these CNN town halls from South by Southwest, and he clearly is more articulate than most of the people in this race. And because he\u2019s more articulate he sounds a little bit more reasonable and less radical, until he gets to the radical ideas. And he has many of them.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re all sitting around scratching their heads, \u201cHow did this happen?\u201d He-he-he. You think Mayor Pete would have raised $7 million if I had not told people to keep a sharp eye for Mayor Pete? We\u2019ll continue to keep a sharp eye for Mayor Pete. Mayor Pete has not acknowledged me or this program and he won\u2019t. So don\u2019t look \u2013 (interruption) yeah, I don\u2019t think he will. It doesn\u2019t matter to anything if he does or doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You think Mayor Pete would have raised $7 million if I had not told people to keep a sharp eye for Mayor Pete? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":294966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Shouldn&#039;t Be Shocked by Mayor Pete - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/01\/democrats-shocked-by-mayor-pete\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Democrats Shouldn&#039;t Be Shocked by Mayor Pete - 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