North Carolina Gives Republicans a Wake-up Call.<\/a>”\u00a0 “GOP Holds North Carolina House Seat But Shows Frailty in Suburbs.”\u00a0 Here\u2019s the truth.\u00a0 Dan Bishop, the Republican, won Cumberland County, North Carolina.\u00a0 That county is 35% black.\u00a0 There\u2019s a 35% black population in Cumberland County.\u00a0 Republican Dan Bishop won it by a margin of 0.3%.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032918-North-Carolina.jpg\")
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Donald Trump lost Cumberland County in 2016 by over 20,000 votes.\u00a0 Tonight, the Republicans won it back.\u00a0 So why isn\u2019t this the news?\u00a0 Well, we know why this isn\u2019t the news \u2019cause this does not look good for the Democrats. They have a 35% black population in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Trump lost it by 20,000 votes in 2016.\u00a0 Tonight, the Republicans win with a slight majority of black voters.\u00a0 What\u2019s going on?\u00a0 Well, take a look at African-American unemployment.\u00a0 Take a look at African-American poverty dropping.<\/p>\n
Take a look at African-American food stamp participation dropping.\u00a0 Take a look at the number of African-Americans who have jobs and getting raises.\u00a0 It\u2019s phenomenal!\u00a0 It\u2019s more than ever happened for them when Democrats have been in control.\u00a0 You could say this is historic.\u00a0 Trump loses by 20,000 in a 35% black county, and the Republican wins it?\u00a0 That is a trend the Drive-Bys do not want you knowing anything about.\u00a0 The Democrats poured $8 million (about that) into this district, North Carolina 9.<\/p>\n
They outspent the Republicans by a huge amount — it was a big, big factor — and they lost again!\u00a0 They lost with Beto O\u2019Rourke in Houston with all of that outside money in Texas, all that outside money.\u00a0 This is what happens when Republicans fight back.\u00a0 This is what happens when Republicans get in the game.\u00a0 This is what happens when Republicans stop apologizing.\u00a0 It\u2019s what happens when Republicans stop being moderates.\u00a0 It\u2019s what happens when the Republicans stop begging people to not dislike them and just go out and fight for it, explain who they are.<\/p>\n
Trump tweeted that Bishop was down by 14 points at one point in the polls, and that\u2019s exactly right.\u00a0 Bishop comes back and wins.\u00a0 Trump was a difference maker, he was a factor, and this has got to just destroy the media.\u00a0 “Trump\u2019s over, don\u2019t you see? Trump\u2019s days are over! Trump has already been defeated.\u00a0 Trump is either gonna be impeached or he\u2019s gonna be defeated in 2020.\u00a0 Everybody hates Trump.\u00a0 Trump doesn\u2019t have any power! He\u2019s losing his base!” And then he goes to North Carolina, and helps turn the black vote in a county — and then the rural vote comes in — and all the Democrats can say is the Republicans are in trouble in the suburbs.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: A couple of more stats on the North Carolina race.\u00a0 Now, these come from Brad Parscale, who\u2019s running the Trump 2020 campaign.\u00a0 In Robeson County, North Carolina… This is just south of Cumberland. It\u2019s a lot of numbers to try to follow here, but I am an excellent communicator.\u00a0 I will make this clear.\u00a0 In the 2018 midterms, the Republican candidate lost by 15 points.\u00a0 Last night, Bishop lost by only 1.1%.\u00a0 Now, they still lost, but that\u2019s a 14-point shift in Robeson County.\u00a0 Now, there are a lot of reasons for this.<\/p>\n
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One of the reasons is Trump went in there. Trump worked hard and turned a lot of votes.\u00a0 But do you know what else happened, folks?\u00a0 Do you know what else happened?\u00a0 One of the things the Bishop campaign did, the Republican, is they went around in their campaign and they talked a lot about The Squad. They talked a lot about Ilhan Omar. They talked a lot about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal, all of the craziness these people are proposing.\u00a0 They talked about Rashida Tlaib — and let me tell you something.<\/p>\n
That, I think, was a huge factor in turning rural Democrats to the Republican.<\/p>\n
You know, Democrats still have a bunch of rural voters. The Democrats don\u2019t care about \u2019em.\u00a0 They make fun of \u2019em, just like they make fun of everybody that lives on a farm or a rural area.\u00a0 But the Republican candidate was able to go in there, focusing on all of this craziness that\u2019s being talked about by The Squad — Cortez and her gang — and, according to the best information people been able to gather, that mattered. That worked in turning rural Democrat votes to Bishop, to the Republicans.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a surprise, and it\u2019s something to learn for other Republicans as we head into 2020.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 In his victory speech, Dan Bishop said that voters “said no to radical liberal policies.”\u00a0 The reason he said that is because that\u2019s what he told people he was opposing.\u00a0 That\u2019s his description of The Squad, Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and all the rest.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m wondering about this North Carolina special election. I\u2019ve learned one more thing about this. You would be stunned to learn the amount of money the militant gay faction of the Democrat Party poured into this district. They have been trying to beat this guy for years, Dan Bishop.<\/p>\n
Now, my question is, I wonder if the Republicans are gonna realize what happened last night. I wonder if they\u2019re gonna learn from. All these Republicans retiring and quitting \u2019cause, ah, I don\u2019t want to go on, I\u2019m not comfortable being in the minority, I may not like Trump.<\/p>\n
This was a lost cause last night! Yesterday. Supposedly. Will the Republicans pay attention? Will they believe their eyes, or will they believe the media spin today? Let me go to Rhonda in Willow Springs, North Carolina. Great to have you, Rhonda. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m so excited. Yes. I do believe that the Republicans need to pay attention. Those establishment Republicans need to open up their eyes and wake up. As I was telling Snerdley, I think the bottom line, we\u2019re not gonna be a purple state come 2020. I really truly believe we\u2019re gonna go red.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I happen to know people in North Carolina politically in touch, politically attuned, and they are telling me that it\u2019s too close, it\u2019s too dangerous. That at the very bottom of the local level, the Democrats are taking charge from dogcatcher on up in county after county after county, that it\u2019s not being reported. That it appears, if you look at state government and all this, it might appear that North Carolina still is a red state but that the Democrats are making great inroads and that\u2019s why this election last night is so important, folks.<\/p>\n
And it really is crucial to me what the Republicans are gonna believe in the aftermath. This was a victory. It was a victory that many believe was snatched from the jaws of defeat. So how did it happen? Well, you can\u2019t eliminate the presence of Donald Trump. You can\u2019t eliminate the details of the campaign.<\/p>\n
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Bishop went after the radical elements of the Democrat Party by name, The Squad, Cortez, you name it, got some Democrat rural voters to cross over. The media is trying to downplay the significance of it now. But there\u2019s a lot here that could be inspirational for Republicans, especially given what everybody\u2019s expectations were, expectations set by the media, of course.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 So the media is now trying to downplay the significance here.\u00a0 But what\u2019s obvious about this election — one of the many things obvious about it — is you cannot ignore Donald Trump\u2019s appeal, Donald Trump\u2019s amazing ability to energize Republican voters.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at this the other way.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at Donald Trump the way the media portrays him every day.\u00a0 And how is that?\u00a0 “Well, everybody\u2019s tired of Trump now.\u00a0 They just wish Trump would go away.<\/p>\n
“Everybody regrets voting for Trump.\u00a0 Trump is an embarrassment.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s an ogre.\u00a0 Trump tweets too much.\u00a0 Trump is just… Ew! Just no manners.\u00a0 He\u2019s foul-mouthed.\u00a0 The guy is unsuited. He\u2019s unqualified. Everybody realizes we made a mistake. We gotta impeach the guy! He cheated with the Russians. We gotta get him out of there.”\u00a0 That\u2019s how the Drive-By Media portrays public opinion about Donald Trump every day.\u00a0 So what happens?<\/p>\n
Well, we got this special election North Carolina 9 where the Democrat has been running for this seat for 27 months!\u00a0 A Republican has been running for this seat for a few.\u00a0 The Democrats are throwing eight-million bucks in there.\u00a0 The militant gay population donors of the Democrat Party, they are in there.\u00a0 They don\u2019t like Bishop.\u00a0 They want him gone.\u00a0 The media\u2019s telling everybody the election\u2019s over before it happens.\u00a0 “It\u2019s a referendum on Trump!<\/p>\n
“Trump is so hated, so reviled, so despised, voters in North Carolina are gonna tell the nation what the nation thinks of Trump.”\u00a0 That\u2019s what the media says.\u00a0 So Trump goes in there.\u00a0 Now, tell me something: If Trump is so hated and despised — if people are so embarrassed that they voted for him, if they regret that they did, if they wish that he would stop tweeting, if they wish Trump had better manners, if they wish Trump would just stop embarrassing them — then how is he able to go in and turn a district that he lost by 14 points into a loss by only one in a certain segment?<\/p>\n
How is he able to go in there so hated and so reviled? How is Donald Trump able to end up making the difference?\u00a0 Because he did.\u00a0 He went in and did a rally the night before, focused on the election.\u00a0 So how can what the media says about Trump be true?\u00a0 Trump should have bombed out.\u00a0 Trump should have failed miserably. (impression) “Why, he\u2019s hated.\u00a0 He\u2019s despised!\u00a0 People are embarrassed.\u00a0 People have buyer\u2019s remorse!\u00a0 People regret vote for Trump.\u00a0 He\u2019s so bad.\u00a0 He tweets too much.”<\/p>\n
And yet Trump went in there and is the difference maker.\u00a0 So are the Republicans gonna believe what they saw or are they going to continue to react to the media?\u00a0 Because Trump proved again last night that he is a force.\u00a0 He proved he\u2019s not on the ropes.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s the exact opposite.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s not on the ropes.\u00a0 He\u2019s the one delivering knockout punches on the economy, the ChiComs, his battle with leftists in the media.<\/p>\n
Right now, Donald Trump\u2019s the best friend Republicans have had since Reagan.\u00a0 Will they realize it?\u00a0 Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and I\u2019ll show you what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 Here is Norah O\u2019Donnell.\u00a0 She\u2019s the new infobabe anchorette at the CBS Evening News. She\u2019s talking here with national correspondent Dean Reynolds.\u00a0 These are the people who see themselves as the heirs of Walter “Klondike,” and here is a portion of her report about the special election in North Carolina — that, again, the Republican won.<\/p>\n
O\u2019DONNELL: A new update on that House race tonight in North Carolina. It\u2019s getting a lot of national attention as a possible preview for 2020. Polls say it is neck and neck in a district that President Trump won by 12 points in 2016. Dean Reynolds reports from North Carolina\u2019s Ninth CD.<\/p>\n
REYNOLDS: The big question in the special election here today is whether the Republicans can hold onto this traditionally Republican seat without cheating.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Snort!) That\u2019s the big question?\u00a0 “The big question … is whether the Republicans can\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 hold on… without cheating”?\u00a0 That\u2019s the CBS Evening News last night.\u00a0 New we have before the election a montage of several Drive-Bys saying that North Carolina 9 was a referendum on the Trumpster…<\/p>\n
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JOHN BERMAN: Today\u2019s special election. This is a big day, not just for North Carolina but, I think, for the entire Trump presidency.<\/p>\n
ROBIN MEADE: …a test for President Trump going into 2020!<\/p>\n
DIANNE GALLAGHER: …a litmus test for 2020!<\/p>\n
KRISTEN WELKER: …a barometer for voters\u2019 energy for him in 2020.<\/p>\n
JONATHAN LEMIRE: It\u2019s being viewed sort of as a referendum!<\/p>\n
RON BROWNSTEIN: If you see this kind of district go down for Republicans, it would be a sign of a pretty broad suburban recoil from the president.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 There you have it.\u00a0 That\u2019s Ron Brownstein. He\u2019s with.. I don\u2019t know who he\u2019s with anybody.\u00a0 These people are just revolving doors, travel off, and they work for member of Congress then go back to the news, then back to a senator, back to the news.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where Brownstein is.\u00a0 Anyway, they all had him losing.\u00a0 You see. His loss was a harbinger.\u00a0 His loss was the barometer.\u00a0 This was going to be the evidence last night that Trump\u2019s presidency is over, that Trump doesn\u2019t stand a prayer of winning in 2020 — unless he cheats — because of the sad circumstances and situation in the suburbs.<\/p>\n
Okay.\u00a0 So it was a referendum on Trump.\u00a0 This was gonna tell us that Donald Trump\u2019s presidency was over, except Dan Bishop won.\u00a0 Donald Trump campaigned for Dan Bishop.\u00a0 So we would expect the media today to point out, “Hey, you know, it\u2019s looking pretty solid for Trump in 2020.\u00a0 Last night\u2019s election was a harbinger.\u00a0 It was what we were telling you — a referendum, a barometer — and it looks like Trump is sitting pretty.”<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see if that\u2019s how they did report this.<\/p>\n
DON LEMON: This is a race that should be an easy win for the GOP. It shouldn\u2019t even be close.<\/p>\n
FREDO: This should have been a no-brainer for the Republicans, a layup!<\/p>\n
CHRIS HAYES: … a district that the Republican candidate should win walking away.<\/p>\n
JOHN KING: The president won the district by 12 points. So why are we talking about this tonight?<\/p>\n
DANA BASH: The fact that we are talking about this is a big deal.<\/p>\n
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: If you\u2019re Republican, you\u2019re worried!<\/p>\n
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: It shouldn\u2019t be that narrow.<\/p>\n
TERRY MORAN: It is a win — and a win is a win — but it does spell trouble for Republicans.<\/p>\n
LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: If the election is a referendum on Donald Trump, he will lose.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 That was Lawrence O\u2019Donnell.\u00a0 That\u2019s the guy who claimed a source told him that Russian oligarchs had bankrolled Trump\u2019s finances.\u00a0 So the night before, this was it.\u00a0 This was a barometer of how Trump\u2019s presidency is over, that he\u2019s finished, that this was gonna illustrate once in a while the American people are tired of Trump.\u00a0 So the Republican wins.\u00a0 And what\u2019s the Drive-By Media reaction?\u00a0 “Man, oh, man, is this trouble for the Republicans!<\/p>\n
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“Man, oh, man, they are sweating bullets today.\u00a0 Holy cow!\u00a0 Did you see how narrowly the Republican won?”\u00a0 It turned out to be not that narrow a win.\u00a0 It was a pretty decent win.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a landslide, but it wasn\u2019t close enough for any kind of a recount or anything.\u00a0 So the Drive-Bys cannot even be consistent.\u00a0 They can\u2019t say today, “Well, you know what?\u00a0 Trump\u2019s reelection bid might not be looking so bad as we thought.\u00a0 He came in and he made this election turn around for this guy, Bishop.”<\/p>\n
But no! It\u2019s all about how, “Well, the only way they can win was cheat.\u00a0 Trouble! Trouble for Republicans! If you\u2019re Republican here, you\u2019ve gotta be worried.”\u00a0 So if this is what happens when Republicans win, what the hell would the news have been in Bishop had lost? (laughing) Folks, I maintain… I said to you yesterday, I think people notice this stuff.\u00a0 I think all kinds of people who believed these people every day for two years that Trump it colluded, that Trump stole the election, that Trump cheated, colluded with Putin.<\/p>\n
People believed that crap for two years; then all of a sudden, “Sorry, didn\u2019t happen!”\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe people just forget it.\u00a0 I think the media is damaged, and they\u2019re not even acknowledging it.\u00a0 No apology, no attempt to hold on to their audiences that now are obviously confused.\u00a0 They just roll on with the same agenda: Get Trump, however.\u00a0 “This doesn\u2019t work? Okay, here. We\u2019ll launch something new.\u00a0 We\u2019ll go from hoax to hoax to hoax.”\u00a0 My point is that I believe…<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gonna be hard to know, it\u2019ll be hard to prove this, but I think these people are doing irreparable damage to themselves.\u00a0 You just can\u2019t assure people of something for two years, something as basic as the president\u2019s a traitor — as basic as the president cheated, the president stole this election from Hillary Clinton — and then you cite the sources, all the respectable people in the intel community and all the respectable people in the FBI and all the…<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t just bombard people with that stuff, and then have it blow up in your face and not a shred of it be true, and have it not have an impact on people.\u00a0 I think the same thing here.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been telling everybody for a week Trump was toast. Bishop was toast — this is gonna prove Trump\u2019s presidency is finished — and the guy wins? And people that ended up believing the media are scratching their heads. “Wait, this is not what they told us was gonna happen.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Shane in Charlotte, North Carolina. Great to have you with us in the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s a pleasure, Rush. Just get to my point real quick and you touched on it already. The importance of the fact that McGreedy — I\u2019m sorry, Freudian slip — McCready was campaigning for 27 months and Dan Bishop only four but he still won.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, the Democrats have been eyeing this seat for all the reasons that we have been discussing here. But $8 million of outside money — well, I don\u2019t know how much of it is outside. But $8 million and Bishop didn\u2019t spend anywhere near that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Nowhere near it at all.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t know how apparent it was. There was a lot of support for McGreedy, as you say, behind the scenes. Some of it was from the really militant left-wing gay donor faction from the Democrat Party. And they\u2019re a big bunch. They donate a lot of money. They\u2019re militants, and they\u2019re very, very active radical leftists, and they spend money all over the country for Democrats. And some of their money was in there too. They had targeted Bishop for obvious reasons. That\u2019s why I say there\u2019s a lot of things for the Republicans to learn here. What did you think was gonna happen before the results came in.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I mean, it was close the last race except for the balloting issues that they had. I mean, it was a tight race. But most people that I talked to felt that Bishop was gonna win.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Well, you know what —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I travel both states, North and South Carolina all day for work.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I did too. I thought Bishop was gonna win. I\u2019m not in North Carolina. I don\u2019t have any inside knowledge. It wasn\u2019t just a reaction of hope. I\u2019m watching the media talking about it, and I don\u2019t believe \u2019em. I just don\u2019t believe that the Republicans are as hated and despised or that Trump is like the media portrays. And I don\u2019t believe that people who voted for Trump have abandoned him and I don\u2019t believe that they\u2019re embarrassed. I don\u2019t believe any of this.<\/p>\n
When Trump announced he\u2019s going in there for a rally on Monday night in Fayetteville and is gonna work on it — and, by the way, let\u2019s not forget something else, Mike Pence spent the whole day in there on Monday. Mike Pence was doing the old-fashioned politics is local business. He was calling people on the phone and getting them out to vote, which is how you do it.<\/p>\n
Mike Pence was engaging in old time, old-fashioned retail politics, and it worked. Which is the point. It can work. It does work. I wish I could give you a list of political reasons that would demonstrate my prescience and brilliance on why I thought bishop was gonna win but I can\u2019t. It was just a hunch. It was a gut instinct.<\/p>\n
And also, when I run into a lot of people that are pessimistic, there are a lot of people in North Carolina who wanted it to be so bad they were just — kind of like you think you know your team is gonna lose in the Super Bowl. \u201cOh, my God. I know they\u2019re gonna lose.\u201d You get prepared for being disappointed. I don\u2019t fall for that. I think it\u2019s gonna be a good night. Turned out to be.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Chad in Austin, Texas. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, I had called to kind of second what you were talking about earlier, that, you know, the Democratic Party and the left and the Drive-By Media, they\u2019re the most vocal people, even though it\u2019s a small handful. And so, you know, these polls and the media are convincing everybody that Trump is so unfavored, and I don\u2019t believe any of it. I think they\u2019re using metadata to target the demographs that they want to get the polls that they need.<\/p>\n
But, you know, Trump supporters are quite a bit different. I\u2019m a Trump supporter, all my friends. We don\u2019t put Trump stickers on our cars \u2019cause we don\u2019t want our windows broken out or our tires slashed, but here in Austin, you know the hipsters have — everybody\u2019s got a Beto sticker. And they\u2019re creating an echo chamber for the small majority that they have. And they\u2019re just the loudest. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re the majority. They\u2019re just the most vocal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That is an excellent point. And you throw the media in with their daily trumpeting of Democrats and Democrat issues and the fact that Trump supporters, Republicans in general are not loud and attention seeking. They\u2019re not bombastic, they just go about their lives and they live out there in relative anonymity until there is an election. And then all these people on the left end up being shocked, surprised and blown away \u2019cause they believe their own hype! They believe all of their polls. They believe their own hype. But that is an excellent point. The left is a small minority that\u2019s loud as hell, creating a perception about them that\u2019s not correct.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We got Larry here in Peoria, Illinois. We have time to get one more in here. Larry, how are you? Great to have you EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello. I was listening Monday to mainstream media, and they were playing part of the North Carolina District 9 Democrat candidates stump speech. He talked about reaching across the aisle and working with Republicans. And I thought to myself, there\u2019s no way that is ever gonna happen. ‘Cause if he truly is sincere and believes that he\u2019s gonna be able to do that, the leadership in the Democrat will never allow that to happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, I was gonna say that\u2019s exactly right. This guy, that\u2019s a foolish thing to campaign on. But it tells you what he thinks his voters wanted to hear. This Democrat thinks his voters wanted to hear he was gonna reach across the aisle, work with Republicans. Do you know a Democrat that wants to work with Republicans? I don\u2019t. Now, they may exist in rural North Carolina, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
But see, I think that\u2019s standard, boilerplate politics 101 in both parties. I think this guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I don\u2019t think he knows his constituency. ‘Cause you\u2019re exactly right. Even if he does want to do that, even if his voters did want that, the Democrat leadership isn\u2019t gonna permit that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: The Democrats get shellacked.\u00a0 And the Drive-By Media headlines are still about "the trouble this win portends for Donald Trump." It's flat-out hilarious.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":321505,"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":"\n
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<\/a>So the next headline you see, \u201cNorth Carolina Gives Republicans a Wake-Up Call.\u201d You would think the Republicans lost the election, would you not? You would think that everybody expected the Republicans to win this. That all of the experts had weighed in, the conventional wisdom was that the Republicans were gonna win the special election and they didn\u2019t, and it was a huge wake-up call. You would not be blamed for thinking that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091019-Trump-NC-Rally.jpg\")
Trump goes in, turns the election, and you know where he turned it? Democrat rural strongholds. The Republican ended up getting a significant amount of support from Democrat areas, rural areas in this district. The Drive-Bys are not going to tell you that. And I\u2019m not aware that they brought up Russia yet, but give them time.<\/p>\n