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<\/p>\nRUSH: The first thing I noticed last night — and I\u2019m not gonna put \u2019em in any chronological order, but they\u2019re close. The first thing I really noticed last night seemed to be a gigantic contradiction. The Democrats have been telling us and the media have been telling us for weeks now that the enthusiasm is all on their side.<\/p>\n
Oh, yeah, they own it, don\u2019t they? They got people chomping at the bit. “We can\u2019t wait to get out there. Give us those ballots! Give us those absentee ballots! Give us those mail-in ballots! Give us the early voting! We can\u2019t wait,” and then they tell us the enthusiasm on their side is really not so much pro-Biden but it\u2019s anti-Trump, and they tell us, “That\u2019s great news because that\u2019s bad news for Trump!<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s so much Trump hatred on their side that Trump doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Trump\u2019s gonna have to really make some serious changes,” and I said, “This the wrong way to look at that. If you\u2019re running around telling people that a majority of the enthusiasm of your voters is not for your candidate, it seems to me you\u2019re the one that has a problem.”<\/p>\n
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And that turns out to be true, because both Obama and Kamala Harris last night were obsessed with people voting. They were literally obsessed with it. Kamala Harris and Obama were telling everybody they need to start now to “make a plan to vote.” What do you mean, “make a plan”? You wait for Election Day, you grab your voter registration ID, you go to the poll, you stand in line, you vote, you go home — or wherever you go, the bar, whatever you do.<\/p>\n
What do you mean, “make a plan to vote”?<\/p>\n
“Well, Rush, you must understand, many Democrat voters don\u2019t have their own transportation. They\u2019ve gotta figure out a way to get to the polling place — and then you got to understand, Rush, that many Democrat voters, they\u2019re people of color, and the polling places don\u2019t want \u2019em to vote. Of course, the decks are stacked against \u2019em, and so Democrat voters have to ‘make a plan\u2019 to get past all the blockades designed to stop \u2019em from voting.”<\/p>\n
There is no such thing. There is no blockade to stop African-Americans from voting. In fact, the Democrat voter rolls are inflated with people who are dead, who live in different places. There isn\u2019t anybody trying to stop anybody from voting out there, not in great numbers. There was a great Supreme Court decision that came down, however, for the state of Florida. Here it is.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court just ruled on the 2020 voting. They “denied voting rights for up to a million Florida felons.” Well, it\u2019s about time. That thing should have never been on the ballot or in a Supreme Court decision anywhere. But the Democrats were counting on it, because they know their constituency groups. The Supreme Court just ruled on Thursday.<\/p>\n
They “let stand a lower court ruling that could strip voting eligibility for up to a million Florida felons,” i.e., criminals “who have completed their sentences but have yet to pay outstanding fines, restitution, and other fees.” So they haven\u2019t cleaned up their act altogether. A million felon votes now will now not be legal? Big problem for the Democrats.<\/p>\n
But Kamala Harris and Barack Obama were obsessed with people voting, as though it\u2019s some major accomplishment, as though it\u2019s a major achievement, as though it is a dramatically hard bit of work to go vote — and it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s one of the most wonderful things about the United States. It\u2019s easy to go vote. You register, and then you get your voter registration card to prove it, then you have proof that you live where you live.<\/p>\n
In some cases, you don\u2019t even have to do that. You just show up — you don\u2019t even need a voter ID, photo ID — and then you go vote. The Democrats have literally got what percentage of African-Americans thinking they\u2019re gonna go to jail if they show up and vote? I am not kidding. These people are so mean-spirited toward their own voters that they have scared them over the years that if you go vote, you might end up in jail.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s why they want you to have a photo ID. They have… I\u2019m telling you, the Democrat Party has done more to ruin the integrity of the American presidential election system than Vladimir Putin could have ever dreamed of. Now it\u2019s coming home, I think, to roost. But what does all this mean? It means they have no enthusiasm behind this ticket.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s speech, besides being one of the most low rent that I can ever recall… I mean, folks, it was trash. I kept telling people I was communicating with, “You know, this is why this guy doesn\u2019t work as an endorser. This is why the people he endorses or campaigns for… You go look. His candidates do not win, starting with Hillary Clinton in 2016.”<\/p>\n
After he did his personal thing with Trump — and, by the way, violating every… These people say they have the manners and they have the class, right? They and the Never Trumpers on our side, they\u2019re the decent ones. They\u2019re the ones who are clean. They\u2019re the ones who are calm. They\u2019re the ones who have character, and they\u2019re the ones we can trust.<\/p>\n
These are the people that violate every sensibility norm that politics has as a traditional value! Obama blew up every tradition last night about attacking a sitting president, your predecessor. It just isn\u2019t done. There\u2019s always gonna be the first time. There\u2019s always gonna be the first time somebody breaks the rule, and Obama now is the guy. (interruption)<\/p>\n
No, it wasn\u2019t George W. Bush. George W. Bush has yet to go after Obama. George W. Bush didn\u2019t go after Clinton. He became his best friend, for crying out loud. Now, Clinton and Gore went after Trump and they went after George W. Bush (chuckles) in 2004, trying to blame him for everything going wrong with the War on Terror. But traditionally, Republicans don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
But Kamala Harris, her speech was the same thing, urging people, begging people to get out and vote. It sounded desperate to me, folks. They sounded desperate. They sounded really scared — and to me, they were telegraphing that they know there\u2019s not a lot of enthusiasm. Let me tell you something.<\/p>\n
If you really believe that people on your side are chomping at the bit, if you really believe they can\u2019t wait to get out there, you don\u2019t spend all these precious moments you have. One night a year, you have unfettered access to the American people — and to spend so much time begging people to vote? “Make a plan! Get together with your community organizer after my speech and make a plan to go vote.”<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t require a plan. You just have to be able to be willing to make a short little trip somewhere. They\u2019ve admitted all week that their polling shows a majority of people going to vote for Biden really are voting against Trump \u2019cause they hate Trump, and that that\u2019s bad news for Trump. No. It\u2019s bad news for them.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re admitting there\u2019s no enthusiasm for Biden — and I\u2019ll tell you, there isn\u2019t any for Harris, either. (Snort!) That\u2019s one of the big little secrets here. There isn\u2019t any enthusiasm for her — at all — and they\u2019ve got another problem with her, folks. They have another big problem with Kamala Harris, and it is this.<\/p>\n
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They are positioning her as an identity human being, meaning, “She deserves whatever she gets \u2019cause of her race, because of her skin color.” They\u2019re turning identity politics on her and saying, “This is what qualifies her, this is what…” (interruption) Well, when they talk about, “She\u2019s historic! She is the first woman of color to be chosen to be a running mate on a Democrat presidential ticket.”<\/p>\n
Okay. So if you guys want to do that, if you want to portray Kamala Harris as there because of the color of her skin, then you gotta have to do something else. You\u2019re gonna have to find a way to make her a victim. Because if you don\u2019t do that, if you don\u2019t find a way to make her a victim of something — a victim of America, a victim of American racism\/discrimination, a victim of America\u2019s bias against women, whatever — then this identity politics thing isn\u2019t gonna work for you.<\/p>\n
I find it fascinating that they\u2019re not pushing her on the basis of her qualifications. I mean, she\u2019s been the attorney general of California. She\u2019s been a DA in San Francisco. They could create a rather impressive resume. Nope. Nope. They\u2019re sticking with the fact that she\u2019s the first woman and she\u2019s historic, when they\u2019ve been there, done that.<\/p>\n
We had the first African-American president! We had the first woman run for president with Hillary. We had a bunch of women running for the Democrat nomination. Look, this history thing has been done. I know, they haven\u2019t had the Hispanic route yet, but they\u2019re gonna overplay their hand here. What they\u2019re in the process of doing, they\u2019ve got to find a way to turn her into a victim or the entire positioning of her is going to fail and bomb out.<\/p>\n
So why all this focus on voting? Why all this fear? Why all this desperation? Why all of this almost wringing the hands in the speech last night, looking out through the camera, “You gotta vote! You gotta go vote!” I mean, it was over the top. There has to be a reason — and the reason is, there isn\u2019t a lot of enthusiasm for Biden. There isn\u2019t any enthusiasm for Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n
How do they know that? That is what we don\u2019t know: How they know that, whatever they\u2019ve got — data, information — that would make them go out in both speeches last night and devote so much of the time to reminding people they\u2019ve got to vote?<\/p>\n
What do you mean, remind people they\u2019ve gotta vote? Your people, I thought they were enthusiastic. I thought they couldn\u2019t wait to get out. I thought they hated Trump so much. I thought… But they had to remind people how important it is to vote? That\u2019s just the first thing I noticed.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think the Democrats\u2019 internal polling is bad, and I think that the people they\u2019ve talked with about it know it. I think they\u2019re looking… I think the news cycle is not in their favor. Let\u2019s take a look at the news cycle for a second. COVID. COVID… (sigh) Would you say the peak has been hit?<\/p>\n
Would you say that we may be on the downside of COVID? Now, they don\u2019t like that! They want COVID to still be in an upswing. They need more cases. They need more people dying. They need the schools continually shut down. They need more colleges not playing football. They need a number of things to continue to happen so they can blame them on Trump.<\/p>\n
But… Back to school? I don\u2019t think they win back to school. I think the sentiment for back to school is growing. It\u2019s obvious they oppose it. The violence in the streets — you know, with individuals now being beat up. We now have seen the videotape of two individuals be literally kicked in the head, sent to the hospital.<\/p>\n
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No police around to do anything about it. We\u2019ve identified the perps. There are manhunts in Portland and Seattle to try to find these two perps. People are getting fed up with it. I think also that as the days go on, they\u2019re getting paranoid about Biden getting addled. They cannot be confident.<\/p>\n
Biden didn\u2019t know where he was the night he accepted the nomination. It was clear that when the snakes and the balloons came down the ceiling, he didn\u2019t know where he was. Folks, they\u2019re gonna have to find a way to try to renege on these debates if… They\u2019re just gonna have to do it. I don\u2019t know how they go forward without that.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s the fastest three hours in media, and here\u2019s evidence; the first hour\u2019s almost over. Somebody sends a note, “They better hope the ratings are low. They better hope that nobody\u2019s watching this convention. The best thing could happen to them is for millions to miss it.”<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Grab sound bite number 30. They just make me look brilliant. What is one of the points I made in analyzing the Obama and Kamala Harris speeches last night? I said, “Man, do these people sound desperate. They kept talking about the importance of voting. Why would you need to do that?<\/p>\n
“If there\u2019s so much enthusiasm already on your side, why would you need to spend so many valuable minutes — in her speech and your speech — reminding people to vote, telling people to ‘make a plan to vote\u2019?” I don\u2019t know about you, but when I vote, it usually involves waking up like I woke up today. I woke up today and thanked God that I did, and then you know what I did?<\/p>\n
Then I got in the shower (I don\u2019t think I\u2019m divulging any secrets here) and then I got dressed. And then I went down to the library and did the stuff necessary to be able to leave the house. And then I called for the staff to come get me, bring the car around. I went out, got in the car, and drove to work. If I was gonna vote, I\u2019d go to the polls after work when the crowds are down.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m too famous to go there in the morning. I would go in there and vote. It wouldn\u2019t require any thought. It wouldn\u2019t require a plan. It wouldn\u2019t require calling a cab. It wouldn\u2019t require calling anybody. It wouldn\u2019t require anything. What? What plan? But they spent all this time talking about the importance of voting, and I didn\u2019t understand it because with all this enthusiasm they claim they have.<\/p>\n
I mean, even if the enthusiasm is hating Trump instead of loving Biden, they\u2019ve told us all these months, “Man, Trump is so hated; he\u2019s so despised. These people can\u2019t wait to vote!” Okay. Then why did you spend so much damn time telling them how important it is to vote? Are your people that stupid; they don\u2019t know it\u2019s important to vote?<\/p>\n
Are they so stupid we can tell \u2019em the election is a week later, and they\u2019ll believe it? Well, look at this: “Earlier this week, NBC News released a PSA entitled, ‘Plan Your Vote,'” and here is the PSA with Lester Holt, who anchors the NBC Nightly News, and the Meet the Press host F. Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n