{"id":330161,"date":"2019-12-03T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=330161"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:37:58","slug":"obama-2016-its-impossible-to-rig-our-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/03\/obama-2016-its-impossible-to-rig-our-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama 2016: It\u2019s Impossible to Rig Our Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to go back. I want you all to hear this. This is Obama October 18th, 2016. This is basically 13 months before the election, White House Rose Garden. And the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi held a joint presser with Obama.<\/p>\n

\"\"And during the Q&A, the Reuters White House correspondent, Ayesha Rascoe Sahib Skyhook, said, “Donald Trump is telling his supporters the election is rigged, and he\u2019s asking \u2019em to monitor certain areas on Election Day. How concerned are you about the potential for violence? And what about after Election Day? Are you worried the results of the election may be distrusted?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America\u2019s elections, in part because they\u2019re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There\u2019s no evidence that has has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So how do we get from there to Trump colluded and stole the election? And what do you think Russian meddling means to the people who read the New York Times and watch CNN? What do you think Russian meddling means? They think — and polling data confirms this — they think Russians tampered with voting machines. They think Russians gave Trump votes that he didn\u2019t get. They think Russians took votes away from Hillary.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this all means. Russian meddling means Russians interfered with actual votes, even though in every Mueller indictment of Russians, Rosenstein made it clear nothing in these indictments suggested any vote was changed or the outcome of any election was changed as a result of actions taken by these people that we are charging today.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s right. It would not be possible to rig a presidential election. I know you\u2019re thinking, “What about Kennedy?” Well, folks. You know, you wait until the end of the night and you see what you need and you go to your strongholds like in West Virginia, Chicago, Mayor Daley, “You know, give me a couple thousand votes here,” that can happen.<\/p>\n