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RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that, that show of support. And I happen to know we\u2019ve got a really sizable audience of African-Americans that has developed over the years.<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Lynn in Norfolk, Virginia, as we get started on the phones. Thank you for waiting. I really appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019m doing great. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, listen. First of all, let me just say, to all of your listeners who are not African-American, all black people don\u2019t hate you. To Trump, all black people don\u2019t think that you\u2019re a racist. And to you, Rush, some black people actually listen, and some actually get your sense of humor.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that, that show of support. And I happen to know we\u2019ve got a really sizable audience of African-Americans that has developed over the years.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t know if they can say it out loud to people they\u2019re around, but you do have listeners.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, I know I do. Absolutely. There\u2019s nobody with more.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Well, I was calling today because I watched the debate, the first night and the second, and the Democratic Party to me is just not recognizable anymore. I\u2019m a lifelong Democrat. I sat out for the last election because I wasn\u2019t pleased with Hillary. I wasn\u2019t sure about Trump. But this party has just morphed into something that I don\u2019t even recognize anymore.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s always been this. You just never saw it because they did a good job of hiding it. But, Lynn, this is who they\u2019ve always been, which is why so many of us have always been so frustrated at so many people not seeing it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, let me just say this. I\u2019m not doubting you. But sometimes people like, you know, I\u2019m not just stereotyping, but people like frosting and sprinkles, the cake mix is the same, but just to come out and say I\u2019ve always been wrong might be a harder sell than to say now they\u2019re turning to something that I can\u2019t recognize anymore. But I get what you\u2019re saying. I get what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Well, look. It says here that you called because you\u2019ve got an idea for the Republicans on how to win black —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, we have got 30 seconds left. Can you get to it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. Yes, I can, Rush. I\u2019m sorry. Yes, I really do think that Trump is doing a great job for African-Americans, but adjust the messaging, adjust the messaging that\u2019s coming out and the messengers. He is doing a fantastic job. His family is awesome. It\u2019s just that he has so many enemies coming from all sides that are attacking him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Hold your thought. We\u2019re gonna give this one more shot. I gotta go to a break here the bottom of the hour, but we\u2019ll come back and let you finish the thought.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Lynn in Norfolk, Virginia, who wanted to assure me that I have black people listening to the program —<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: — who now has advice on how Trump Republicans can win over African-American votes. What is your idea?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: My idea, Rush, is to show that the black vote is now built in for Democrats, and the immigrants are now the new blacks. So the Republicans have to put up commercials or start doing the press briefings again showing how Obama felt the same way about the immigration issue. Do little sound bites of his actual words. “Stay where you are! Don\u2019t bring your kids. They\u2019re gonna be in danger.” It\u2019s the same thing that Trump\u2019s saying, but Obama just delivered it with sprinkles and frosting.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same with rat-infested cities. Show how Cummings said the same thing before, the same clips, then show Trump saying it. It\u2019s just sprinkles and frosting. It\u2019s the delivery. My people — and I\u2019m not stereotyping — we like to hear things, right or wrong, in a certain delivery. And the substance is what matters now. Trump is giving us substance, but it\u2019s all shadowed over by just plain cake mix. There\u2019s nothing on top of it. So what we have to do is get a communicator such as myself that can stand beside him, and if he says it direct, I can bring sprinkles and frosting with me all day long!<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I can wear heels in corporate America and Air Max in inner cities. He needs someone who can see both sides of the spectrum.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Well, what I hear saying is that Trump needs new cake mix, and so I\u2019ve gotta try to figure out what that means. I think, seriously, what Lynn is saying here is that African-American people need to be told that the Democrat Party has basically forsaken them for illegal Hispanics. That as far as the Democrats are concerned, illegal Hispanics are the new gold — illegal Hispanics are the new number one most important minority to Democrats, and that Trump needs to point this out to African-Americans.<\/p>\n
If the Democrats are taking them for granted, and it\u2019s time that they wake up. Trump said to them in the campaign of 2016, “Look, it\u2019s 50 years, you\u2019re still complaining. What have you got to lose voting for me?” Now look! African-American unemployment, record low. Hispanic unemployment, record low. Wage increases are demonstrably on the move. Consumer confidence is sky-high. Substantive economic data is not just substantive economic data.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s translating into real differences in the way people\u2019s lives are panning out, and it\u2019s much more upbeat and positive. So the Democrats have decided that they own the black vote. They don\u2019t have to do anything more to get it. They don\u2019t have to fix rat-infested cities. They don\u2019t have to fix drug-infested cities. They don\u2019t have to do anything, \u2019cause the black vote is guaranteed. Baked in, built in the cake mix. All they want to do now is go out and get the Hispanics. So if Trump could make the case to African-Americans, “The Democrats don\u2019t care about you.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re taking you for granted. They think you\u2019re voting for them no matter what happens to you. Well, you better notice that they\u2019re really paying attention to illegal immigrants. They\u2019re the people who are gonna get all the stuff the Democrats have been promising you for 50 years.” That\u2019s what I heard her saying, and it is a good message. It would be an excellent thing for Trump to try to convey, and he could do it. He could do it because he wouldn\u2019t be constrained by political correctness. He wouldn\u2019t be constrained by the fear of offending anybody.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>It happens to be true! The Democrat Party… Just like they take people in California voting Democrat for granted. They\u2019re not gonna fix homelessness in LA. The Democrat presidential candidates are never gonna talk about any of the problems in San Francisco or Los Angeles \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing to gain by it. The state is gonna vote Democrat no matter what. So who needs to fix anything? Baltimore is gonna vote Democrat no matter what. So who needs to fix anything? The Democrats know this. They\u2019re not even trying to fix it.<\/p>\n