{"id":360153,"date":"2020-08-14T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=360153"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:39:29","slug":"charlie-cook-wrong-in-2016-wrong-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/08\/14\/charlie-cook-wrong-in-2016-wrong-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Cook: Wrong in 2016, Wrong Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It\u2019s Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.<\/p>\n

This is Diana in Seattle. And welcome. Great to have you here with us today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, just want to say, first of all, love you and we\u2019re praying for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little nervous, but I just wanted to point out, I think when you touched on earlier is absolutely true. I think that the Democrats are not confident. Because if you look at the blue states or the states that are for the mail-in voting that are changing, they\u2019re all blue states that should automatically have it wrapped up, right?<\/p>\n

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So I\u2019m thinking, \u2019cause I\u2019m in Seattle, obviously, and all the states that are wanting the mail-in voting, you know, they\u2019re pushing for this, but I think they also know that the people like me, all your listeners, we\u2019re really fed up with it. We\u2019re fed up with the rioting, the homelessness, you know, the COVID thing. And I think that they are doing this because they\u2019re in real danger of losing their states to Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. You think the Democrats fear losing the state of Washington to Republicans?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. I do. Because, you know what? I was at the Trump rally in 2016 in Everett, and I waited in line for six hours with my husband, and there was like 12,000 people there. And I was just at the Back the Blue<\/a> rally this last weekend before the vote, and it was unreal how many people were there. I think there\u2019s a huge, overwhelming silent majority, and I think that the Democrats are starting to figure it out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s interesting. Charlie Cook, who runs a massive political operation in Washington — he\u2019s one of the gurus — and he predicts every race, every House race, every Senate race, the presidency. And he says he has never seen a blue wave like this. He has staked his company\u2019s reputation on this. He just put out a report today that another — I forget the number, but it\u2019s an incredible number of districts have now been switched blue.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s banking on the fact that the Democrats are gonna keep the House, they\u2019re gonna win the Senate, they\u2019re gonna win the White House, they\u2019re gonna own Washington. Now, Charlie Cook doesn\u2019t want to be wrong. Charlie Cook\u2019s reputation can\u2019t afford to be wrong. This latest report of his is not toss-up. It\u2019s not close. It\u2019s not could go either way. He is saying right now that it is over for the Republicans and maybe forever, is how bad this defeat is gonna be. You, on the other hand, believe because of a rally in 2016 that the Republicans and Trump could win the state of Washington in November because there\u2019s this great silent majority out there.<\/p>\n

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I know a lot of people believe that there is a great silent majority out there of people just waiting to go to the ballot box. I can\u2019t tell you how many people I know who think the same thing. By the way, Charlie Cook, all he does is take existing — he doesn\u2019t do his own polls. He analyzes — well, I say that. He may do some of his own polls. But what he does is analyze all the others as well and then puts \u2019em into his particular formula to make his projections and predictions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, it isn\u2019t close. And it\u2019s true of all the other polling and modeling the cats that\u2019s out there. It\u2019s not close. I mean, it\u2019s being portrayed as slam dunk Republican massive loss. These people can\u2019t afford to be wrong. Now, there\u2019s plenty of time for all of this to change. But they are really giving themselves a tough thing to do. I mean, the amount of change that they say would be necessary for Trump to turn this around has never happened in American politics before.<\/p>\n

So one of two things is going on. Either they\u2019re right or they are so desperate that they are throwing it all up against the wall and hoping beyond hope that they can effect a win by making it appear that Trump and the Republicans have no prayer, no choice whatsoever, that it\u2019s that over.<\/p>\n

Now, your example about mail-in voting in states that they already think they\u2019re going to win, the one thing about Democrats and liberals per se, don\u2019t think just because they\u2019re pushing for this in their own states that it means they\u2019re worried about losing their own states. This is about they eventually want this to happen everywhere. What they\u2019re actually pushing for here is to get rid of elections.<\/p>\n

And I know every time I say this some of you blanch, some of you think, “Rush, that\u2019s way too far out there. That\u2019s way too extreme.” Folks, I\u2019m not talking about tomorrow or the next election. But I\u2019m telling you that we\u2019re dealing with a bunch of totalitarians, we\u2019re dealing with a bunch of authoritarians, we\u2019re dealing with a bunch of people who do not think there should be any opposition.<\/p>\n

We are dealing with people who think there is no legitimate opposition. We\u2019re dealing with people, the only thing they don\u2019t control is elections. Look at how out of sorts they were over losing in 2016. What if they could fix it so there weren\u2019t any elections and they didn\u2019t have to win any elections anymore? This is what they\u2019re targeting. This is what their ultimate objective is.<\/p>\n

And one of the ways of getting there is just to create so much chaos in the electoral apparatus that nobody trusts it anymore. And they got a good start on that by trying to ramrod all of this Trump-Russia confusion and meddling and all that, this lying hoax that they ran.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, no, no, no. I think Charlie Cook is full of it. Charlie Cook said Hillary would beat Trump in 2016. October 13th, 2016, Cook tweeted, “Take a close look at the Fox News poll. The race is over.” Cook went on to declare from then on that Trump had no path to the White House. Cook has been wrong and he\u2019s wrong now. I\u2019m just talking about how over-the-top wrong these people are going to end up being. Never seen anything like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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