{"id":337960,"date":"2020-02-25T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=337960"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:51:43","slug":"trump-and-the-power-of-incumbency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/25\/trump-and-the-power-of-incumbency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Power of Incumbency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Jim in Milford, Connecticut. You\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Good afternoon, Rush, and mega dittos from beautiful Milford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s my pleasure, and if I may take the courtesy of calling you my friend, I have a question and then a couple of points I\u2019d like to make. The question is: Do you think the liberals &#8212; the DNHC, I like to refer to them as, the Democrat National Haters Committee &#8212; have lost all touch with common sense, or is it that they have such a deep-seated hatred for our absolutely wonderful president, Donald Trump, that causes them to make the decisions they\u2019re making and saying the things that they\u2019re saying, which just go so strongly against common sense? Sometimes it baffles me. You know, I can\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s not complicated at all. It is psychological. The answer to your question would be found in psychology. I think that they are at their wits\u2019 end of frustration at not being able to get rid of him. Remember the Democrats and their media buddies are able to get rid of anybody they want. They can take out&#8230; If they want to take out somebody, they can get it done inside of a year. They can destroy somebody whenever they want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022520-Trump-White-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022520-Trump-White-House.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022520-Trump-White-House-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve launched everything they\u2019ve got at Trump, and they can\u2019t even make a dent, and I think they\u2019re beyond frustrated at their impotence and their inability here. They\u2019re frustrated that they haven\u2019t been able to have any sway whatsoever with the American people on this. This has been a dire cold shower wake-up call that these people don\u2019t have the juice they\u2019ve always thought they\u2019ve had, and they don\u2019t know how to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You know, I agree with what you\u2019re saying, and I think part of their effectiveness &#8212; prior to Donald Trump &#8212; was that the Republican candidate would always fold, would kowtow, would hide in the shadows at the first attack on him. You know, they would give in, they would give up, they would throw in the towel. You know, I just&#8230; I have been a huge supporter of Trump, and I know it doesn\u2019t mean much now, but I thought he was gonna beat Hillary Clinton and stood up for him back then. All it takes is a little flashback to 1980 when Ronaldus Magnus ran against Jimmy Carter. There\u2019s a lot of similarities there. And then you go to \u201984 when he trumped Mondale. You know, I truly think that this president is gonna win like Ronald Reagan did, easily.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I think they think so too. I think that they think that Trump is going to win. Well, we know. That lunatic, Al Green, Democrat from wherever he\u2019s from, says, &#8220;We have to impeach Trump. Otherwise, he\u2019s gonna be reelected!&#8221; They all know. Incumbent presidents have this power. It\u2019s called incumbency. It\u2019s gotta be&#8230; I\u2019ve often thought about this. Here you are, any president, but let\u2019s do this with Trump since he is the current president.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330147 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Trump-Press-Scrum-Gaggle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Trump-Press-Scrum-Gaggle.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Trump-Press-Scrum-Gaggle-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump has been through the rigors of a campaign. He went through a campaign where nobody (except a few of us) thought he was gonna win, much less had a chance. He vanquished everybody, didn\u2019t spend a whole lot of money. He finagled the media into giving him coverage. Look at all those rallies they televised, \u2019cause they hated him so much, they kept waiting for him to implode. That\u2019s another thing that has \u2019em ticked off.<\/p>\n<p>Trump plays them like they are violins that he owns, and now Trump is watching this madcap group of frustrated Democrats try to do what he did, and he\u2019s sitting in the White House or traveling around on Air Force One or over in India speaking to a crowd of 125,000. He\u2019s been there and he\u2019s done it. He is where all of them dream of being. He\u2019s there; they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>This is true of any incumbent president and the opposing party trying to unseat him. But it\u2019s gotta be a really fun position to be in, to be watching other people go through what you have conquered and knowing that the fact you have conquered means you can do it again &#8212; up against a bunch of people who\u2019ve never done it and don\u2019t have a prayer of doing it. That\u2019s the power of incumbency expressed in just one way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It&#039;s gotta be a really fun position to be in, to be watching other people go through what you have conquered and knowing that the fact you have conquered means you can do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":337988,"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>Trump and the Power of Incumbency - 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:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/25\/trump-and-the-power-of-incumbency\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trump and the Power of Incumbency - 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