{"id":366238,"date":"2020-09-28T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=366238"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:30:34","slug":"trump-surges-as-america-shrugs-at-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/28\/trump-surges-as-america-shrugs-at-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Surges as America Shrugs at Plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, if you look around out there, and if you had the ability to look around out there objectively, every sign is that Trump is surging. You know, to me, it\u2019s amazing how this thing is shaping up like 2016 all over again. Look at what we\u2019ve got. We have an obvious lack of enthusiasm on the part and on the side of the Democrats. While we have a lack of enthusiasm, we have arrogance. The Democrats are ignoring the age-old, tried and true tactics of campaign, retail campaigning, like door-to-door meet-and-greet. They\u2019re not doing any of it. There is no ground game.<\/p>\n

They sit around and they quote the pollster Nate Silver, the supposed genius, they quote him all the time. He is the guy giving them all the confidence in the world that the polls are right and that Biden is leading by 10 or 12 and it\u2019s a landslide victory as we sit here today. They\u2019re talking about red states that are gonna flip. They\u2019re talking about Trump\u2019s unpopularity. Nobody\u2019s gonna vote for this guy. He\u2019s even sicker now than he was four years ago. It\u2019s an exact repeat — not exact. There\u2019s some differences. But it\u2019s so close to 2016, including — we\u2019ve got two polls.<\/p>\n

\"\"We\u2019ve got Rasmussen and Trafalgar. And those two polls have it dead even or Trump ahead in key states. All of the others — you\u2019ve got Politico, Washington Post, New York Times, ABC, CBS, Washington — or Wall Street Journal. They are hanging in with almost identical polling results that they had in 2016. “What do you mean, Rush? You think Trump is still surging?” Well, look, folks. I\u2019d be worried if gun sales were flat, but they\u2019re not. You know, the NBA is losing viewers.<\/p>\n

Do you know that Tucker Carlson\u2019s show one night last week outrated an NBA playoff game? When has that ever happened? Nothing against Tucker Carlson. When does that ever happen? In other words, the NBA features people that hate Trump, features people who love Black Lives Matter. Antifa, loves people that want to take out this country and, you know, kneel during the anthem, disrespect the flag. They\u2019re not drawing flies. They\u2019re not drawing huge ratings. Nobody\u2019s watching.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball was pretty much the same. The NFL, ah, it\u2019s hard to measure. But they\u2019re not blowing the doors down. Neither are these former ratings behemoths. If all that were happening I\u2019d be a little bit more concerned. You know, if Biden was on the trail 24\/7, and if Kamala Harris was out there barnstorming. But she\u2019s not. And Biden\u2019s not. Biden\u2019s called a lid on over half the days in September. He has not been out there campaigning. What he\u2019s relying on is all of his ads to make it look like he\u2019s everywhere. But he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

The question you have to ask is how many people know that he\u2019s nowhere, versus who watched the ads and think that he\u2019s everywhere. Because the media is not reporting that Plugs is basically comatose when it comes to campaign activity.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: But the one thing, the one thing, folks, remains these polling units. You\u2019ve got Trafalgar and Rasmussen, who, as I said, have it dead even or even Trump ahead, in key states, in key battleground states. And you go back to 2016, they had much better records, much better performance than all the other polling units in 2016. Now have Trump down, if you go to the Real Clear Politics average of polls<\/a>, five of seven, Trump\u2019s down some places 10.<\/p>\n

\"\"And I have to ask myself, are these polling units, are they willing to ruin their brands, their reputations just to help Biden? Are they willing to do this a second time after Hillary? ‘Cause they did the same thing. That\u2019s why this feels like a replay of 2016. And I think they would. You know why? I think any organization, any business, any company that thinks it\u2019s on the same team as the Drive-By Media will have cover. So if you are a polling unit and you get it dead wrong two cycles in a row, if the media doesn\u2019t say you got it wrong and if they don\u2019t embarrass you and if they don\u2019t harp on it, then no big deal.<\/p>\n

Okay. So the American people, “Wow. The polls were really wrong.” But they\u2019re not gonna think much of it beyond that, other than people like you, this audience will understand what\u2019s going on. But I\u2019m convinced — I don\u2019t care what business it is or what polling unit it is or what consumer enterprise — if they think the media is on their side, they\u2019ve got cover. They\u2019ve got cover to be wrong, they\u2019ve got cover to lie because they know that the media is not gonna call them on any of the things they blew up.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: As I say, ladies and gentlemen, the similarities between this year and 2016 keep adding up. For example, we were told that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she didn\u2019t campaign in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. So now in 2020 Joe Biden is not campaigning, not just in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, he\u2019s not campaigning anywhere. Biden isn\u2019t going anywhere. But again, his advertising campaign makes it look like he\u2019s everywhere. And I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what he\u2019s relying on.<\/p>\n

\"\"We also have another similarity between 2016 and today. Two Democrat candidates whose health is extremely questionable but totally ignored by the Drive-By Media. I mean, Hillary Clinton was barely able to walk. Hillary Clinton was barely able to climb three steps to get to a seat on a bus, leaving a memorial service on 9\/11 down in Manhattan. Hillary Clinton was having seizures. She was having frozen moments in time. There was video of all of this, but it never found its way into Drive-By Media. But we all saw it.<\/p>\n

And would you believe that most of the people that watch mainstream media still do not know the extent to which Joe Biden is suffering from, shall we say, dementia or mental deficiencies. They\u2019re just not reporting it. It\u2019s uncanny these similarities. It literally is uncanny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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