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RUSH: There\u2019s a story here at TheHill.com. “Poll: Trump Up to 60 Percent in New York.”<\/a> <\/p>\n

I wonder why this is. “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a whopping 43-point lead in New York, according to a new poll.” This is a NY1\/Baruch College survey that was released late yesterday.<\/p>\n

Sixty percent support. Kasich in second place with 17%. And Ted Cruz at 14%. Ted Cruz in third place in all of the New York polls. Baruch College pollster Mickey Blum said Trump is just “killing” it. “This could really be his road to getting enough to win it outright before he ever gets to that convention.”<\/p>\n

“New York awards 95 delegates in next week\u2019s primary, making it a major prize,” obviously. “Fourteen delegates are allocated to the statewide winner, while the remaining 81 are divided up by winner of congressional districts, three per district.” That\u2019s why Cruz is spending his time in friendly upstate districts trying to nail down the delegates in those districts trying to prevent Trump from getting to 50%. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the markup. You gotta get 50% in each district to get all the district\u2019s delegates. Cruz\u2019s theory, he\u2019s abandoning the popular vote per se statewide focusing on, in New York, congressional districts and delegates there, and voters as well. The Trump lead in the delegate count right now, 743, Cruz 545, Kasich 141. <\/line><\/p>\n

And Paul Ryan is said to officially rule himself out of the presidential race, a surprise speech at the Republican National Committee today at 3:15 p.m. Fifteen minutes after the program today Paul Ryan will make it official that he\u2019s taking himself out of the running. Now, that might imply that he was in the running. I think what it more closely implies, or what people infer is, that others had put him in the running and he\u2019s now officially taking himself out. Yeah, I guess he had to be drafted. If you officially take yourself out of the running, it just means you\u2019re taking yourself out of the running, but it doesn\u2019t mean that they come to you and draft you. <\/p>\n

Okay, so let me see when this Baruch college survey was taken. It doesn\u2019t say. Just has a 5.8% margin of error. I expect Trump\u2019s numbers in a number of places to go up because of the perception of what happened in Colorado. You know, perception and reality oftentimes intermingle and are seen as the same thing, when they are clearly different and apart from one another. And the perception is, Trump\u2019s speaking it loudly enough and there\u2019s enough media that\u2019s amplifying this, is that he got royally shafted out there, got royally screwed. <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s… As I mentioned yesterday, folks, there shouldn\u2019t be any shock at this, when you look at what happened. It\u2019s been known since August that Colorado was not going to have a caucus. Well, sorry. They\u2019re not gonna have a straw poll or a popular vote to determine the nominee. I went through all of this yesterday.<\/a> This is the establishment. These are the insider guys. They made this decision in August, and the reason for the decision they made…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually come back to bite \u2019em. The decision they made to do it this way was not to stop Trump, and not to stop Cruz per se. The reason they did it this way was to facilitate one of their own insider candidates winning the state, by turning it into a total establishment insider game. Remember, this is back in August. The GOP in Colorado thought they were greasing the skids for somebody like Jeb, or somebody else that\u2019s on the insider by focusing on people who had the money and the organization and the wherewithal to get out to Colorado and win it according to the rules. <\/line><\/p>\n

The rules are not a trick, meaning it\u2019s not a late-in-the-game change. The rules were published in a book that was sent to everybody by the RNC. So there\u2019s no chicanery here. There\u2019s no trickery. But it is the establishment trying to change the weight of the rules in their favor. You can get mad at that all you want, but that\u2019s how these things work. The Harlem Globetrotters do not lose, okay? The Washington Generals are just honored and happy to be on the court, and I think there\u2019s no greater illustration of politics today than to look at the Harlem Globetrotters. <\/p>\n

The Democrats are the Globetrotters; Obama is Meadowlark Lemon (only not as entertaining), and the Republicans are the Washington Generals. They lose every time, and they\u2019re happy. They\u2019re happy to get on the court. They get to travel with the Globetrotters. They\u2019re in that… They bask in that warm glow of attention the Globetrotters get, and they\u2019re gonna protect themselves. They\u2019re gonna protect their fiefdom, their castle, what have you. What happened in Colorado is because Jeb and the insiders that were really to benefit from the rule, got out.<\/p>\n

\"original\"That left it wide open for somebody else to exploit the rules that Colorado had set up, and Cruz did and Trump didn\u2019t. Now, we can go into whatever reasons why you want. I mentioned a couple yesterday. But the reality… I\u2019m mayor of Realville, you know. I am Mr. Literal with a capital L. But the perception of what happened out there yesterday is that a giant screw job took place. Any time you change the rules in a country like America and you ace out the votes of average, ordinary people, people are going to suspect you — and that\u2019s exactly what happened. <\/line><\/p>\n

So all Trump has to do is talk about how the game was rigged, how it\u2019s not democratic, how people are being denied the right to vote; it\u2019s gonna resonate with people. People like to think they choose the party nominee. People like to think they have a role in this, and Republicans have had a couple delegates go out there — well, officials from the party — and they say, “No, no, no, no. People gotta understand. We choose our nominee, not you.” A couple of them may have had a little bit too many adult beverages when they made the admission.<\/p>\n

We have the audio sound bites. So this is gonna possibly reignite Trump\u2019s campaign. Trump, when his theme is, “Win, win, win, win, win,” when the Trump theme is, “You\u2019re gonna get so sick and tired of winning \u2019cause that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do: Be winning so much that you\u2019re gonna beg me to lose some just to remember what it\u2019s like. But no, no, no, no! We\u2019re never gonna lose! We\u2019re gonna win, win, win, win, win, win!” Well, Trump hasn\u2019t won in quite a while. That also has an effect on perceptions. <\/p>\n

Clearly there\u2019s been a momentum shift. The delegate numbers are still what they are. It\u2019s impossible for Cruz to get to 1,237 before the convention. Well, highly unlikely. It remains within the realm of possibility for Trump. But the momentum, it dissipated. There\u2019s no question. I\u2019ve got e-mail from Trumpists. You know, some of them are mad at me but others understood what I was saying yesterday and had… I\u2019ll give you an example. Let me just read one to you. An e-mailer here reacting to the final call that we had yesterday.<\/p>\n

<\/a>He claims that I didn\u2019t understand the point the last caller of us making, and I don\u2019t remember the last caller yesterday, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Here\u2019s the crux of this. “What most Trump supporters have in common is that if there is a scintilla of a chance of saving our country, Trump is it. There is nobody else that will do what it takes to save our country. Trump is it. We know there\u2019s a very small chance, but Trump\u2019s the last chance, and if he can\u2019t pull it off, it\u2019s over.” But this is the key to the e-mail:<\/p>\n

“I always thought that a candidate that took it to the media would win. I always thought that the candidate who was able to triumph and succeed despite the media and make media look like fools — I always thought a Republican candidate that owned the media — would win. I never factored in my thought process betrayal by the candidate\u2019s own party.” So here you have a Trumpist who believes, as many of them do, that Trump is the only hope. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why they\u2019re so tolerant of Trump and his technique, his words, his comments, behavior. They\u2019re tolerant because he\u2019s the last chance and they really fear they\u2019re losing the country. This is it. He\u2019s the only guy that can do it. They don\u2019t think Cruz can. Certainly anybody else can. They don\u2019t think the establishment\u2019s aware that there\u2019s a crisis, and they\u2019re right about that. But these are people who also — and this is not a view that they hold exclusive. These are people who resent the hell out of the media. <\/p>\n

And they have resented the hell out of the media since they turned 12 years old and they first started watching Kennedy-Nixon, and they watched the Goldwater campaign in 1964, and they have just despised the media and bias all the way through Cronkite, through Dan Rather, you name it. They despise it, and they\u2019ve gotten progressively depressed and angry as they watched the Republicans cower in fear to the media and not fight back, and they have watched in anger and fear as the Republicans refuse to even criticize Obama because of the media.<\/p>\n

They refuse to even oppose Obama or stop Obama because of the media. So they believe, many of them believe that if a candidate came along and finally mastered the media, had the media eating out of his hand, that that would enthuse the party and the party would get behind that candidate and it would be smooth sailing. And it\u2019s been a shock to the system that the GOP will not get behind Trump because he has neutered and neutralized the media. Stop and think about that, because to these people that is huge and the fact…<\/line><\/p>\n

I must admit to being a little surprised that this guy, and I\u2019m sure a lot of other Trumpists, at this stage of the game, actually thought the GOP would rally around Trump for any reason. But the media especially. This is how important a factor the media is in trying to understand the Trump phenomenon, and when the GOP does not rally to somebody who can turn the media either to his advantage or render them basically ineffective, then they get further depressed, they think, “Well, for crying out loud! Isn\u2019t that what this is all about?”<\/p>\n

The media mistreats, the media impugns, the media lies, the media distorts — all of these crazy things about the media — and here\u2019s Trump has shown how he can neutralize them, and that doesn\u2019t even make the party change around or come around and support him. I guess one of the things I\u2019m surprised about in this is that there was ever any consideration that the party\u2019s gonna come around and support Trump before they have to, and even then they may not. I mean, this is… This is life and death, life and death for these establishment types. <\/p>\n

And the idea that somehow Trump can do things and even succeed wildly to the point that the GOP establishment\u2019s gonna come around… Well, no, I just… See, I\u2019ve never labored under the belief that we could turned the media. How many people have called here over the course of the broadcast — you know, the years — and have said to me, “Rush, we\u2019re never gonna win \u2019til we get the media. If we get the media being fair to us, that\u2019ll be the sure sign of victory.” I said, “Well, that\u2019s never gonna happen. <\/p>\n

“The media is not really media. They\u2019re not even reporters. They\u2019re liberals. They\u2019re left-wing hacks and they\u2019re disguised as journalists. They\u2019re not out there open-minded waiting to have their minds changes. They\u2019re not out there to see the light about anything. They are committed leftists, committed to advancing the Democrat Party agenda. They\u2019re never, ever gonna come around. That\u2019s your measure of success. You\u2019re never gonna find it, ever.” And if you want some proof, here\u2019s Trump. Trump does find a way around the media.<\/p>\n

The media can\u2019t hurt Trump, is the point. Do you realize how big a deal that is to people? The media has been able to destroy whatever Republican they wanted to destroy. About the only Republican the media hasn\u2019t been able to destroy is Reagan. Pretty much they\u2019ve had free rein after that. They\u2019ve able to successfully diminish — by reputation, image, what have you — any Republican they set their sights on, except Reagan. And now Trump. <\/p>\n

And the belief that that would provide the energy for the GOP to see the light and get behind Trump, and know where they got there. But that was never, ever gonna happen. If anything it\u2019s gonna make the establishment even more opposed to Trump because gonna make Trump an even bigger threat. The establishment is made up of people of both parties. The establishment is made up of Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans are the Washington Generals; the Democrats are the Harlem Globetrotters. <\/line><\/p>\n

But when the entire castle is threatened (i.e., Washington) they\u2019re gonna circle the Potomac, and anyone outside trying to get in there, they\u2019re not gonna let \u2019em in. And that\u2019s what Colorado was all about. But the establishment has been doing things throughout this campaign that\u2019s backfired on them so many times, and this looks like it might, even though they didn\u2019t break any rules, even though they didn\u2019t conduct any tricks, even though they didn\u2019t do anything under cover of darknes.<\/p>\n

Everything they did was wide out in the open.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all it takes is this perception. Because Trump successfully has created one image — well, many. But one image that triumphs over everything else, and that is if he doesn\u2019t win, somebody cheated. If he doesn\u2019t win, somebody shafted. If he doesn\u2019t win, somebody broke the rules. In Trump world, that is believed 100%. If Trump doesn\u2019t win, the game is rigged, so here comes Colorado doing what they do, and it appears, perception-wise, that they did pull a fast one by changing the rules to prevent Trump, for whatever reason, whether he\u2019s prepared or not, to even compete in Colorado. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the biggest mistakes that people make… Not just Trumpists. One of the biggest mistakes people on our side make is believing that official Republicans, Washington Republicans, New York Republicans — but primarily the Republicans in elective office, the Republican lobbyists, people that work for Republican elected officials. There is this assumption that official Republicans feel the same way about the media as you do, and they don\u2019t. The media is part of the overall ruling class. <\/p>\n

They are part of the establishment, and Republicans come to know what the media is going to do and why they do it, and they accept it. So when Trumpists are shocked that the Republican establishment will not get behind a candidate who can take it to the media, it tells me that many of you have conception of how the Republican Party looks at the media. It\u2019s hard to explain, really. It\u2019s just they don\u2019t see them as “the enemy” that you and I do. They don\u2019t see them as much more than an obstacle. But they don\u2019t even see them as that. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of the infrastructure and framework. It\u2019s the way things are. They never complain about the media — very rarely — and they don\u2019t do anything about it. And they very seldom even try. How many times have you heard a Republican say, “Why don\u2019t you do a presser? Why don\u2019t you do a press conference, bring up some victims of Obama\u2019s latest policy and do what the Democrats?” “We won\u2019t get covered.” How many times you heard \u2019em say, “We won\u2019t get covered.” They know. And so they do not have your view, just like they don\u2019t view Obama and the Democrats the way you and I do, they don\u2019t view the media the same way, either.<\/p>\n

And they don\u2019t think we\u2019re in a crisis.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s John Heilemann, CBS This Morning today. He\u2019s got that show on Bloomberg with Mark Halperin. Norah O\u2019Donnell said, “Donald Trump\u2019s talking about a dirty, rigged system –” Colorado — “what\u2019s the point of all this, Mr. Heilemann?”<\/p>\n

HEILEMANN: This is a year when, in both parties, vast parts of the bases, Democratic and Republican, believes comprehensively the system is rigged. And so Donald Trump is trying to tap in to the populist kind of energy that\u2019s fueled his campaign all along. All the complaints about it, the responses that he should figure it out, his campaign should be better, et cetera, et cetera, they\u2019re all a hundred percent right, but this talking point for him for the next two months is not a bad one for him, politically speaking.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a good point. I have taken an informal survey of Trump supporters \u2019cause I know quite a few, and I\u2019ve asked \u2019em I think a pretty penetrating question. Essentially I\u2019ve said, “Look, your guy is out there telling you, telling everybody that everybody else in Washington is dumb and doing dumb things. But he\u2019s a winner, and he\u2019s smart, and he\u2019s got the smartest people available to help him. And when it comes to talking to the ChiComs, when it comes to talking to the Japanese, when it comes to making deals with the Iranians, we\u2019re gonna stop doing stupid things, and we\u2019re gonna do win things, we\u2019re gonna do smart things. We\u2019re gonna be so smart, we\u2019re gonna win, win, win, win, win.” <\/p>\n

So I ask \u2019em, “Does what happened in Colorado bother you?” I mean, here\u2019s the guy that\u2019s gonna take it to the ChiComs, take it to the Japanese, couldn\u2019t find a way to take it to the Colorado Republican Party. And I\u2019ll tell you what they tell me. They say, “That\u2019s true, but you know what? Trump knew that he was not gonna be able to prevail there. He knew that he didn\u2019t have the infrastructure ready to go to do state-by-state delegate fights. So you know he did, Rush? He let this thing all happen and then began playing it as though he was cheated, as though it was rigged.” This is working out exactly as Trump designed it, they think. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll bet you that\u2019s a pretty common view that many Trump supporters hold, that he didn\u2019t get snookered on anything here. That if anybody\u2019s snookering anybody, it\u2019s Trump. Trump is smart. They try to trick Trump and he\u2019s turned the tables on \u2019em. He knew that he wasn\u2019t gonna be able to go out there and compete in the way necessary because he hasn\u2019t got a big enough staff, he hasn\u2019t hired enough people to do it yet. And if he lost he\u2019d be easily able to say he got cheated \u2019cause the system is rigged, because his supporters think that to begin with about all of this. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll bet you if you encounter some Trump supporters — and maybe you are one yourself — and you ask \u2019em, “Does it not bother you? I mean, the guy is smarter than anybody else in the room, and he\u2019s gonna be able to negotiate rings and circles around everybody else.” They are gonna tell you something along the lines of, “Hey, hey, he is, and he\u2019s demonstrating it right now. He goes ahead, he lets Cruz think he got a big win out of there, but Trump knows how the media works and he\u2019s coming out of there claiming he got cheated, he got rigged, and he\u2019s gonna win big because of it.” So we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n

The New York poll, the Baruch College poll shows him at 60%. It was taken before all this happened. Kate Andersen Brower, she wrote the book on first ladies and administrations and so forth. That\u2019s the name of the woman who claims that Michelle Obama has nothing in it for the Clintons. In fact, there may be some actual animosity there. Reince Priebus On the Record with Greta Van Susteren last night. She said, “Now, a big firestorm over what\u2019s going on in Colorado and the way they ended up choosing the nominee out there, the preferred nominee. Trump says it\u2019s corrupt and rigged. What do you say to that?”<\/p>\n

PRIEBUS: Well, I mean, it\u2019s the same process they used, Greta, four years ago. I mean, it\u2019s no different. I have a book in front of me that every candidate has state by state with the dates and what\u2019s happening. This is an organizational process that candidates have to be involved with from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: That\u2019s all true, folks. There\u2019s no mystery here. This is not something that snuck up on — well, it might have snuck up on people if they didn\u2019t read the book. I really don\u2019t think this is hard to understand. Trump is not one of these guys. He doesn\u2019t read owner\u2019s manuals. He either hires somebody to read the owner\u2019s manual or just goes in there and learns it himself. What are you looking at me like that for? If you\u2019re Trump, you\u2019re running rings around all these guys. You\u2019re leading by 20 points in every poll. You\u2019re racking up delegates. You\u2019re creaming the opposition. You\u2019re driving everybody from the establishment out of the race. You\u2019ve got crowds so big that five and 10 thousand people can\u2019t get in.<\/p>\n

So you want to stay on that roll and you\u2019re just gonna win this with national pressure, national momentum. You\u2019re gonna win this without all these arcane insider rules \u2019cause those are the things you\u2019re actually running against anyway, is that whole structure. So you don\u2019t even take the time to get into it. I don\u2019t have any doubt that that was probably it. And he didn\u2019t have anybody on his staff that was oriented toward the nuts and bolts of this stuff. Trump\u2019s campaign is in for the hearts and minds of average, everyday American voters. But now that this has all happened, I mean, if it\u2019s time now to wine and dine delegates — he-he — do any of them have Mar-a-Lago? Do any of them have a Boeing 757 he can put \u2019em on and fly \u2019em around? Hey, that\u2019s how some of this stuff happens. Priebus is right. Here\u2019s Cruz. This was last night in San Diego.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: He yells and screams and stamps his foot. Donald, 65,000 people voted in the state of Colorado. They just didn\u2019t vote for you. They voted for our campaign. (cheers and applause).<\/p>\n

RUSH: The crowd was cheering. And finally, here\u2019s Trump in Albany last night at another Trump appearance.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: In Colorado, which was a total fix, they took away their votes. It\u2019s a corrupt system. It\u2019s a totally corrupt, rigged system. In Louisiana, I went there, I campaigned for four or five days. We had rallies just like this, thousands and thousands of people. I end up winning Louisiana. And then when everything is done, I find out I get less delegates than this guy that got his ass kicked, okay? Give me a break. Really disgusting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the Trump people are cheering and they\u2019re applauding, they\u2019re going “right on” \u2019cause they think they have been cheated. They think the game\u2019s been ridding against them, you understand. These are average, ordinary people who think we\u2019re losing the country. They are serious about it. We\u2019re in a crisis, and they\u2019re being laughed at and mocked and made fun of and called losers by establishment media types. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re getting no respect, so to speak. And it would make total sense that their guy is getting shafted and getting screwed in a rigged game. So all he\u2019s gotta do is come out and say that and he\u2019s not gonna lose anybody because of this. And the establishment is gonna miscalculate on this again if they\u2019re not careful. If they think that the long-awaited Trump implosion is beginning, they\u2019re misjudging how this is going to be received. I got a little analogy that I can give you. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Denver Post had an editorial back in February: “Colorado GOP Blundered…”<\/a> That\u2019s “made a mistake,” for those of you in Rio Linda. “GOP Colorado Blundered on 2016 Presidential Caucus — Republicans made big mistake in abandoning presidential tally.” This editorial goes on and on about what a huge error this was to deny Republicans in Colorado their vote, and choose the nominee via a delegate caucus rather than a straw poll or a vote.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna come back to bite \u2019em, and this editorial was back in February. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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