{"id":336432,"date":"2020-02-11T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=336432"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:25:52","slug":"why-the-democrats-are-imploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/11\/why-the-democrats-are-imploding\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Democrats Are Imploding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Why are the Democrats imploding? I was watching today before the busy broadcast began, and I was watching some people literally surprised that Joe Biden has crashed and burned in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cWhere have you been?\u201d How can anybody be surprised that Biden was not gonna be the nominee? How can anybody be surprised that Biden was gonna &#8212; he\u2019s been collapsed. He\u2019s been &#8220;stick a fork in him&#8221; for months now. &#8220;But, Rush, the poll data.\u201d Screw that. The polls were for another reason. Plugs, what, fifth place in Iowa if anybody even knows. He\u2019s pulled up stakes. The bus broke down yesterday!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Warren-Biden-Bernie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Warren-Biden-Bernie.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Warren-Biden-Bernie-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You want a microcosm? The Plugs bus broke down! It was a symbol. The Plugs campaign was never going to get to the nomination. But because these people live and die by their own polls, they believed Plugs was the guy, Plugs was the leader, Plugs was leading the pack, and Crazy Bernie was having trouble making up ground. So now people are expressing surprise at the total collapse of the Biden campaign. He\u2019s pulled up stakes and is already on the way to South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Plugs\u2019 problem&#8230; The same thing happened to Plugs that happened to Howard Dean. These guys need to stop talking about me. They think when they talk about me that it\u2019s gonna ignite their audiences and get all kinds of support, and it ends up wiping them out. I have proof of this coming up. Audio sound bites. You\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about in just a second. But it\u2019s not just Plugs. Why are the Democrats imploding?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a headline from the Daily Beast, and the writer is Michael Tomasky or Tomasky. I\u2019m not sure how he pronounces it. He\u2019s a well-known leftist writer, highly respected. Headline: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/theyre-voting-in-new-hampshire-but-this-democrat-just-wants-to-jump-off-a-bridge\">They\u2019re Voting in New Hampshire, But This Democrat,&#8221; meaning himself, Tomasky, &#8220;Just Wants to Jump Off a Bridge<\/a> &#8212; New Hampshire is voting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember when this used to be an exciting day. Even if my candidate didn\u2019t win, which he &#8230; usually didn\u2019t, I loved both the reliable rituals and the unexpected little accidents. &#8230; Well, it\u2019s not exciting now. It\u2019s depressing. I\u2019m depressed. Almost everybody I know, every Democrat anyway, is depressed. It\u2019s a mess. Iowa was a [crap]show and shouldn\u2019t be first anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you love that, by the way, now? (chuckling) These people hate the Midwest anyway but have always fallen in for the Hawkeye Cauci. Now the Democrats can\u2019t even run their own caucus without the Russians coming in and screwing that up. So now they want to cancel the Hawkeye Cauci. So now they\u2019re even being honest about how they feel. They don\u2019t like you in Iowa and they never really have. &#8220;New Hampshire shouldn\u2019t be second,&#8221; said Mr. Tomasky, &#8220;it\u2019s totally preposterous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iowa? New Hampshire?<\/p>\n<p>The first two states?<\/p>\n<p>What are we doing?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Y]et the party lacks the stones to tell these self-important, second-tier states to go stuff it.&#8221; So now because there\u2019s not a single Democrat lighting it up aside from Crazy Bernie and maybe Mayor Pete &#8212; but more on him in a moment, too. Now all of a sudden with the frustration&#8230; These people&#8230; You gotta understand, they\u2019ve been lying to themselves for going on four years now that everybody hated Trump, that Trump somehow got elected with a quirk of fate that did not include a genuine Electoral College majority.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians or something! But everybody hates Trump. Trump was going down. Trump was gonna lose in a landslide. They had themselves convinced even before they started the Russia business and then the impeachment business, they were convinced folks. I\u2019ve told you: They were lying to themselves through and through. The reality is hitting them. That\u2019s what this Tomasky piece is about and all these others.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is hitting them that they can\u2019t beat Trump. Not as things look at this moment, in a snapshot today, with their candidates and with their campaign. So now, everything in the system&#8230;. This is typical of the left. Since they\u2019re not gonna win, all of a sudden, the Hawkeye Cauci suck &#8212; and New Hampshire? What the hell is New Hampshire doing being number two? That shouldn\u2019t happen, either!<\/p>\n<p>So all of this frustration is now boiling over and effervescing out of the pot. This guy says here, &#8220;The candidates don\u2019t look like winners. The party looks like it might be headed toward a face-off between a billionaire and a man who wants to ban billionaires, neither of them really Democrats.&#8221; That\u2019d be Crazy Bernie and Doomberg. His last line here: &#8220;And Donald Trump is going to be reelected.&#8221; So why are they imploding?<\/p>\n<p>They are imploding for a host of reasons, but among them is they are offering solutions to problems that don\u2019t exist. They\u2019re trying to create problems that we don\u2019t have anymore because we\u2019ve got Trump, because we\u2019ve instituted market economics, because we have a foundation of conservatism here that is being implemented, policy after policy after policy. So they\u2019re having to invent these problems that they have, in fact, created over the years so that they can offer solutions to them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/App-020320-Trump-Thumbs-Up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/App-020320-Trump-Thumbs-Up.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/App-020320-Trump-Thumbs-Up-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Democrats do not offer solutions to the people who make the country work. The Democrats offer solutions for authoritarian, elected Democrats and unelected bureaucrats and themselves. The Democrats are all about establishing a way of life for themselves, not for the people, not for the country. I mean, Democrats right now want to dump a phenomenal economic model. They want to destroy the engine that has produced the strongest economy in 50 years and maybe longer than that.<\/p>\n<p>And with what? They want to replace it with an economic model that fails every time it\u2019s tried. So that they can have problems that they claim only they have the solutions to. Well, that\u2019s their problem, not ours. They are unhappy with a Constitution that has created the greatest country that has ever existed. That\u2019s their problem, not ours. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/284285\/new-high-americans-satisfied-personal-life.aspx\">&#8220;Ninety Percent of Americans Are Satisfied with Their Lives.&#8221;<\/a> Ninety percent!&#8221; That\u2019s an unheard of number in a record high.<\/p>\n<p>For a couple of generations. Ninety percent of Americans are very satisfied with their lives, and you\u2019re trying to get rid of the administration and the policies that have created this? So what would you do? If you wanted to replace all this, what would you do? I don\u2019t know what, but it certainly wouldn\u2019t be the way the Democrats are going about it. It makes perfect sense they are imploding.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look at the Democrats\u2019 pattern. They don\u2019t win the Electoral College in Trump versus Hillary, so what? Ban the Electoral College. Now they don\u2019t like the Hawkeye Cauci \u2019cause they couldn\u2019t even count the votes. Gonna ban the Hawkeye Cauci. And now they don\u2019t like the fact that nobody\u2019s looking good in New Hampshire, so let\u2019s ban New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never them. It\u2019s always the system. It\u2019s always the plan, it\u2019s always the mechanism that is at fault. It\u2019s never them. It couldn\u2019t be that they\u2019ve nominated in what they thought was the most fertile ground to win the White House ever: universal hatred of Donald Trump. This is what they\u2019ve believed. And they can\u2019t find anybody to capitalize on that. Nobody to capitalize. They thought they could, but they can\u2019t find anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t they? Because Donald Trump is not universally hated. They continue to live this illusion, and to me it\u2019s humorous to watch. We\u2019ve got a montage here. It\u2019s not just me saying this. Last week, the Friday debate, the Drive-By Media becoming more and more convinced the Democrats cannot beat Trump.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JyA2mnzLCBY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JONATHAN KARL: I don\u2019t think there was anybody, based on tonight\u2019s performance, that has the Trump campaign quaking in their boots.<\/p>\n<p>MARTHA RADDATZ: Did anyone prove they could beat Donald Trump tonight?<\/p>\n<p>BYRON PITTS: Frankly, I don\u2019t think anyone did a great job of it.<\/p>\n<p>CECILIA VEGA: The Democrats are still struggling.<\/p>\n<p>JOE SCARBOROUGH: Among the current crop of candidates there\u2019s a fear that there may not be the ability to take down Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, you hear it time and again.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID AXELROD: If you were Donald Trump and watching this debate, how would you feel about it? Because my guess is, he would feel fine about it.<\/p>\n<p>JEN PSAKI: It\u2019s a little scary. Democrats should be a little frightened after this.<\/p>\n<p>BILL MAHER: If they can\u2019t get their act together, soon, it\u2019s going to be over before it begins.<\/p>\n<p>JAMES CARVILLE: If we go the way of the British Labor Party, if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it\u2019s going to be the end of days. I am scared to death, I really am.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That was James Carville there. He\u2019s going on 75 years of age, and he said, \u201cIf we go the way of the Labor Party, if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it\u2019s gonna be the end of days,\u201d I\u2019d be out of my gumbo. And he\u2019s scared to death. He\u2019s scared to death. He thinks the party is on the way to becoming a cult. He doesn\u2019t like Crazy Bernie. He just has no use for \u2013 James, you know I know you, buddy, known you and your wife a long time. James is one of these Democrats who\u2019s living in a bygone era. He thinks this is still the Democrat Party of the Clinton era, and it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>This is a far-left-wing, radical, revolution-based party. That is the base of the Democrat Party. I think he knows it. I think it\u2019s what actually scares him. It is trending here for a secure minority position.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s get started on the phones. We always try to do that in the first hour. Loves Park, Illinois. Rich. Where is Loves Park, Illinois?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So it\u2019s located about 90 miles west of Chicago, north of Rockford, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I wonder&#8230; I never knew. I missed this. I can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s very small.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. It\u2019s great to know where it is. What\u2019s up? What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So my thought is, Rush, I think at this point the Democrats have realized they don\u2019t have a candidate that can beat Trump. So I think they\u2019re gonna get behind Buttigieg with the idea that, if he loses, when he loses (\u2019cause he will), that they can then have a built-in excuse that the country\u2019s not ready for an openly gay candidate and the Republicans are homophobes. So they can\u2019t get behind him because of that. So I think they\u2019re going to push for him because of the built-in excuse when they lose &#8212; \u2019cause all the candidates will lose against Trump &#8212; that we\u2019re not ready for an openly gay president.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-314072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-1.12.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-1.12.50-PM.png 724w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-1.12.50-PM-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>RUSH: Well, I can understand your thinking. That\u2019s, in fact &#8212; based on history and the study of Democrats &#8212; a very sensible, logical theory to explain why they might nominate somebody who could lose. Like in 1984, they nominated Walter Mondale. They knew Reagan was gonna win a landslide reelection. So they didn\u2019t want to sacrifice somebody they really thought could win the presidency someday. So they let Mondull have it. Mondull had been a loyal war horse for all of his life, Minnesota DFL, and he had been vice president of Jimmy Carter. So if any Democrat was gonna get shellacked and have their career ended, let it be Mondull.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, in this you\u2019re thinking &#8212; you\u2019re your stated theory is &#8212; that the Democrats would love to be able to win by losing, by claiming they only lost because America is homophobic. Republican voters are still anti-gay, anti-tranny, what have you, and so forth. (sigh) I\u2019m not&#8230; I don\u2019t know that this is what is the active thinking.<\/p>\n<p>There might be some Democrats thinking this. But Mayor Pete is not gonna allow himself to be used this way. Mayor Pete is not gonna say, &#8220;You want me to lose on purpose so you guys can claim that the country hates people like me?&#8221; He\u2019s gonna have play along with this, and the problem with this theory is&#8230; I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed it or not, folks, but I have because I see the stitches on the fastball.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-336488 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DEMS-LOST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DEMS-LOST.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DEMS-LOST-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The thing you gotta remember here, whether you can see it for yourself or not, is this party and whoever it is running it &#8212; take your pick &#8212; they do not want Bernie Sanders anywhere near this nomination. And it\u2019s not because they\u2019re afraid he\u2019s gonna win. It\u2019s because they\u2019re afraid he\u2019s going to lose and redefine the party as a cult and end its dominance forever. They\u2019re looking for anybody to take this away.<\/p>\n<p>It was gonna be Fauxcahontas, and she\u2019s fading away. I mean, she ought to be mopping the floor in New Hampshire. I mean, that\u2019s just, you know, a couple tepees away from where she was teaching as a phony Indian at Harvard. No, I\u2019m telling you, the savior, the one&#8230; If you read between the lines, the one they\u2019re now claiming could be the answer to all their problems is Amy Klobuchar. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, let me expand on this Klobuchar business, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t mean to leave a hanging chad there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-clock-is-ticking-establishment-democrats\/\">Jim Geraghty, who writes for National Review Online, had an interesting piece recently<\/a>. He made the point &#8212; it\u2019s a piece that attempts to illustrate the similarities in the 2016 Republican primaries and the 2020 Democrat primaries.<\/p>\n<p>And his point about the 2016 primaries was that all of the Republicans hated Trump. There were 16 candidates, 15 of them plus Trump. They all hated Trump, they all thought they could beat Trump. Nobody thought Trump could win. And yet Trump wins. Geraghty\u2019s point is, if they had coalesced behind just one of them, if 14 of those Republicans had agreed to coalesce behind just one Republican so that it was Trump versus one &#8212; whoever &#8212; Jeb, Ted Cruz, take your pick &#8212; that Trump might have been beatable in the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>But as it was, none of these Republicans cared enough about beating Trump to give up their own quest. And so the anti-Trump vote remained divided. Now, there\u2019s nothing unique about it. This happens in every primary. But it still is an interesting phenomenon to discuss because there were so many Republicans running in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>They thought after two years of Obama, it\u2019s wide open for us, and anybody who ever dreamed of being president on the Republican side thought they had a chance. And not one of them ever stopped to think somebody like Donald Trump was gonna get in. When Trump did, it just blew everything up.<\/p>\n<p>And it illustrated that, despite everybody talking about how bad Trump was and how necessary it was to stop Trump, they really didn\u2019t do what was necessary to stop Trump. They didn\u2019t pick one of them and unite behind that person and then go defeat Trump.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, that\u2019s practically the same thing happening here in 2020 with the Democrats. They all hate Trump. Trump\u2019s gotta be stopped. But none of them are giving up the individual quest. And if they did, if, for example, it could be done, if they could persuade a bunch of these Democrats to give up and coalesce behind one nominee, then maybe that could present some sort of face of unity and definition of the party and so forth. But it isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>But I think this is what the Klobuchar &#8212; I don\u2019t want to say candidate &#8212; I think an attempt is gonna be made to make this happen or effectively happen with Klobuchar, but it isn\u2019t gonna work simply because nobody\u2019s gonna talk Mayor Pete into quitting and uniting behind her. Nobody\u2019s gonna talk about Crazy Bernie into it. Nobody\u2019s gonna talk Fauxcahontas into it and Biden, of course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It still is an interesting point to make, that Klobuchar is now seen in this sea of whatever as the one who is reasonable and representative of mainstream American values with the best shot, according to her supporters, of defeating Trump. I think that\u2019s a long shot. I think people on the left and the Democrat Party are caught in so many illusions and delusions, and they\u2019re so divorced from reality that I don\u2019t think they have the ability to actively strategize victory.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying victory can\u2019t happen to them because, folks, anything can happen tomorrow or the next day that can totally upend what everybody thinks is gonna happen. And predictions are made without factoring those things, because you can\u2019t. And that\u2019s why polling data this far out really doesn\u2019t tell you anything about the end result, and it doesn\u2019t tell you anything really about the current day thinking \u2019cause you don\u2019t know how true it is.<\/p>\n<p>So it becomes the equivalent of watching a horse race and trying to pick the winner after the first turn. You just can\u2019t do it. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example of the delusion. Here is Chuck You Schumer. Guess what? You know, Trump\u2019s announced the FY \u201921 budget, fiscal year \u201921 budget. So right on time Pelosi and Schumer had a press conference today to do what? To say they don\u2019t like it, to say they disagree with it. Pro forma, nothing new, nothing shocking. But here is what Chuck Schumer said at that press conference.<\/p>\n<p>SCHUMER: Primaries are primaries and there\u2019re always lots of sturm and drang. You will see in a few months Democrats will be strongly united together, and we will be focused like a laser on beating Donald Trump. The enthusiasm that you last saw in 2008 to elect Barack Obama, you will see among Democrats this summer and fall to get Donald Trump out of office.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. On what basis, Chuck You, are you making this prediction? Because I hate to tell you, there isn\u2019t an Obama equivalent on your roster right now. And what was it about Obama that led to this magical turnout? It was race, combined with media success in driving up hatred for the Iraq war and hatred for the Bush administration and hatred for everything \u2013 an imaginary recession that had not happened.<\/p>\n<p>But the magic of the first African-American president, what are we gonna do to recreate that? You can\u2019t. I mean, been there, done that. So are we gonna have the first Hispanic? No. We gonna have the first female? That was gonna be Hillary. You have to kind of say that that kind of has been lost since she blew it. I will guarantee you this, had Hillary Clinton been president, the reaction, &#8220;Oh, my God. First female president.&#8221; If Klobuchar would ever be elected president, she\u2019s gonna get nowhere near the acclaim as the first female President Hillary Clinton would have got. So that\u2019s even been lost.<\/p>\n<p>So where is this magical, Obama-like turnout gonna come from? Well, according to Schumer, it\u2019s gonna come from Trump hatred. All right. So where was it in Iowa last week? Where was it? Do you know how disappointing the Hawkeye Cauci turnout was? Forget the fact they can\u2019t count the votes. Forget the fact that they don\u2019t even know how to caucus anymore and how to count \u2019em. The turnout was dismal.<\/p>\n<p>And I watched it. I watched all the Drive-By Media go to all the diners &#8212; by the way, have you seen enough interviews of people eating pancakes and French fries at diners? I don\u2019t know. The Drive-Bys have picked these people out and they hate Trump. Oh, they gotta get rid of Trump, we just hate him. So we were told, we were prepped for massive enthusiasm on the Democrat side, massive, bursting at the seams can\u2019t wait to get out there and vote to get rid of Trump. And then what happened on caucus night? Crickets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s got his own caucuses going for the fun of it. He\u2019s not even contested, doesn\u2019t even have to do it, draws more people to his caucuses than the Democrats. So now, Mr. Snerdley, are you paying attention? Are we getting any reports of turnout yet in New Hampshire today? (interruption) Really? What is it now &#8212; don\u2019t you think that if the turnout in New Hampshire was in fact overwhelming, we would have gotten little hints about it? Don\u2019t you know the Drive-Bys can\u2019t wait to tell that story?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump goes to New Hampshire, draws a bigger crowd than all the Democrat rallies combined, and here\u2019s Chuck You Schumer saying, &#8220;Doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s happening now. You wait \u2019til the convention. You wait \u2019til November. We\u2019re gonna have a bigger turnout than we had in 2008.&#8221; If you\u2019re counting on Trump hatred to propel that turnout, you haven\u2019t learned a thing.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know what the exit poll data is, meaning I don\u2019t know what the release schedule is on the exit poll data from New Hampshire. But it must already be out, Mr. Snerdley, because depending on which network you tune to, it doesn\u2019t matter. The winner tonight, Bernie Sanders. The big loser tonight, Joe Biden. That\u2019s the takeaway. Big winner tonight, Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are saying the reason Crazy Bernie\u2019s gonna win is cause he had a rally that drew 7,500 people last night. He had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and he also had some musical group and probably some free hemp being passed around. But whatever, now all of a sudden crowd size matters at Democrat events. (interruption) Oh, well, if Crazy Bernie wins the nomination \u2013 they are not going to let it happen. This is the thing.<\/p>\n<p>He could have. If the DNC had stayed out of it in 2016, I\u2019m convinced he would have beaten her. She was never the preferred candidate of that party. She never had any enthusiasm. That whole thing was a setup. It was baked in. It was supposed to be her in 2008, then Obama decides he wants it and they couldn\u2019t say &#8220;no.&#8221; So she got shoved aside. She\u2019s the most cheated-on woman in America.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats blew her off and then said, \u201cWe\u2019ll give it to you back in 2016.\u201d And they said, \u201cYou could really have it now because anybody can beat Trump, even you. We\u2019re gonna give it to you the year you can\u2019t possibly lose, Hillary,\u201d and yet she managed to lose. (interruption) What do you mean, if they can\u2019t rig it so that he loses this time? (interruption) Ah, you\u2019re forgetting the Russians. You\u2019re forgetting that the Democrats have an in with the Russians. It isn\u2019t Trump. Democrats can call on the Russians to do anything they need to do to sabotage the Crazy Bernie campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t think that they\u2019re gonna let Crazy Bernie win this. And either way, if he does or if they succeed in sabotaging him again, either way it\u2019s just going to be one of the best shows on earth to sit here and watch.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Tanya. Tanya is in Atlanta. It\u2019s great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. First thing is congrats on the <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/02\/07\/what-a-week-im-one-of-the-luckiest-people-alive\/\">Medal of Freedom.<\/a> Well deserved. My comment is, you know, I watched these debates just to see how bad they\u2019re gonna be, and I can\u2019t figure out how people would actually vote for Bernie Sanders, how he could be the leading candidate for the Democrat Party. And then I\u2019m thinking, &#8220;Well, I should know why, because I\u2019ve seen what\u2019s taught to my daughter in school: A progressive, anti-American, untrue history, socialist mind-set.&#8221; So now they\u2019re creating, you know, generations of this kind of mind-set.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How does the Democratic Party merge back together? I don\u2019t even know if they can at this point. That\u2019s my question.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, who was it? When they asked, is anybody afraid of socialism, wasn\u2019t Klobuchar the only one who raised her hand?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. She\u2019s the only one, and I thought to myself, &#8220;I know somebody else wants to raise their hand, but they won\u2019t do it. They just won\u2019t do it. I thought, &#8220;Biden\u2019s gotta want to raise his hand,&#8221; but he didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m not&#8230; Look, you couldn\u2019t even convince me that Biden understood the question.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: True. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m not even trying to be snarky or funny. I just don\u2019t think Joe Biden has belonged in this thing since the beginning, and whoever decided&#8230; I know he did, in part, but it\u2019s really been a disservice to him, and it\u2019s for somebody else\u2019s agenda or reason that they put him up there, and I think part of it is this quest to stop Bernie Sanders. Look, make no mistake.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care what you hear out of James Carville. He\u2019s 75, and he isn\u2019t the Democrat Party anymore. The Democrat Party is a socialist leftist party, because that\u2019s what their base is. That\u2019s what they must be to hold their base. A party is what its base is. This is what Carville knows. This is what Chris Matthews knows. This is what bugs \u2019em. They have lost their old party.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>CNN &#8212; I was talking about this just today. The man-on-the-street interviews trying to gauge public opinion, yada yada yada. They went out, they talked to 100 New Hampshire Democrats. They couldn\u2019t find a single Biden voter.<\/p>\n<p>MIGUEL MARQUEZ: So we are at ward one in Dover. They\u2019re averaging about 150 voters an hour here. That would put them at about 2016 level, but not 2008 when Barack Obama was running and there was great Democratic enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n<p>MIGUEL MARQUEZ: I\u2019ve been doing my own sort of unofficial exit poll as voters leave here. This is a very liberal area of New Hampshire, most people supporting Bernie Sanders. A lot of people, number two, saying Pete Buttigieg they like. Amy Klobuchar, interestingly enough, a lot of people say they\u2019ve come around to her since her performance in the debate last week. And then Elizabeth Warren rounding all that out. Most surprising here is that of all the voters I\u2019ve talked to, and we\u2019re talking probably upwards of 100 right now, not a single one saying they support Joe Biden<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-020320-Biden-Today-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-020320-Biden-Today-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-020320-Biden-Today-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Not a single one in 100 interviews say they are supporting Joe Biden. So Snerdley, we\u2019ll concede here that the big winner tonight\u2019s gonna be Crazy Bernie. Who\u2019s gonna come in number 2, do you think? (interruption) You think Buttigieg is gonna come in number second, Mr. Pete gonna come in, Mayor Pete gonna come in number 2? Okay, we\u2019ll see. You know what? Just to be different, just to be unique, I\u2019ll say that Klobuchar will come in second. We\u2019ll just see. We\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Todd in Herriman, Utah. You\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Good day, sir. I\u2019m a first-time caller. My wife and I love you very much, and we love your show.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019ve had a question for a long time that I\u2019ve never heard anybody ask and I\u2019ve never heard an answer to, but it\u2019s been something I wondered. Back when Obama was president, we would get and hear the jobs numbers come through and then shortly thereafter we would hear those numbers rounded down or changed dramatically. We haven\u2019t heard that &#8212; or I haven\u2019t heard that with President Trump either way, up or down. We just hear the job numbers and they seem to stay where they were. Why does that happen, and is it happening now?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, it\u2019s because of the way the reporting agencies report. In the Obama administration they\u2019d report the original numbers and have to revise them down because they always inflated \u2019em. It\u2019s just who they were. Trump unemployment numbers, they don\u2019t have to be revised. They\u2019re solid and good. They continue to shock people.<\/p>\n<p>What is subject to revision are the Trump GDP numbers. Those numbers have been revised downwards slightly. 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