{"id":369287,"date":"2020-10-19T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=369287"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:35:27","slug":"its-an-election-about-americas-future-not-a-referendum-on-trumps-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/19\/its-an-election-about-americas-future-not-a-referendum-on-trumps-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an Election About America\u2019s Future, Not a Referendum on Trump\u2019s Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “Early Voting Numbers in Key States Are Surprising and Good News<\/a> — Early voting data showing positive signs for President Trump and some troubling signs for Biden.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening out there. Everything that we predicted to you regarding polling data is starting to happen. It\u2019s starting to tighten up, and all these massive, double-digit leads that Biden has are starting to get smaller. It was as predictable as the sun coming up every day. The early voting numbers in particular are interesting because most every Republican chalks it up that we\u2019re gonna lose early voting automatically.<\/p>\n

We chalk it up that early voting is where all the fraud is, and that we have no way of stopping it, and that the Democrats own it, and that the whole reason for early voting is so they can go out and practice voter fraud, ballot chicanery, this kind of thing. So “early voting numbers in key states are surprising and good news.” There\u2019s also a fascinating piece here that ran at American Greatness, I believe, by Thaddeus G. McCotter.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s called, “The Gaslight Election Won\u2019t Work,”<\/a> and basically it categorizes the Biden campaign as a do-nothing campaign that\u2019s just basically trying to run out the clock. It\u2019s a fascinating piece. Let me give you a couple pull quotes to give examples. “Whatever they claim, one electoral maxim is beginning to bite the Democrats” where you don\u2019t wanna be bit: “voters want to vote for something.”<\/p>\n

Thaddeus G. McCotter writes that he “recently chatted with a veteran political observer who asked [his] opinion on a matter [that was really bugging] him. Apparently, this observer had conversed with an equally politically savvy person.” In other words, these people get it, they\u2019re junkies, and they had “shared a puzzlement over the dearth of audiences at [Joe Bite Me]\u2019s campaign appearances.”<\/p>\n

There are none, like there were none at Hillary\u2019s. There were more at Hillary\u2019s than there are at Biden\u2019s. “They were further befuddled by the media treating this as if it were perfectly normal. Ultimately, both [these guys] deemed the 2020 presidential election the oddest not only in their lifetimes, but in all of American history. They felt something was missing…” They felt something\u2019s not right here, something\u2019s missing.<\/p>\n

They couldn\u2019t figure it out — and it\u2019s true. Look at this past weekend with Trump and his rallies. For crying out loud, Trump on the way to the airport in Newport Beach, California! He could have had a rally with the people along the roadway in California. People are lining up in droves every chance they get to get a glimpse of Donald Trump, either as his motorcade goes by or at one of his rallies.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, when Joe Biden does something (which is rare), nobody even tries to get there. “Well, Rush, no wonder! They know they\u2019re not gonna…” Doesn\u2019t matter. The people on the roadway out in Newport Beach don\u2019t have the slightest prayer they\u2019re actually gonna get to meet or see Trump, but they show up anyway. No, no, no. The point is there isn\u2019t a desire to go out and see Biden, not even among people who are gonna vote for him.<\/p>\n

Why? That\u2019s the answer — or the question. Why? It\u2019s because not only does Biden not have a bond, he does not have a connection with the people who are ostensibly voting for him. They don\u2019t know who he is beyond that he was Obama\u2019s vice president. But they don\u2019t know what he\u2019s for, in the sense of voting, in the sense that people want to vote for something.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get elected by simply being a generic candidate, which is what these guys have concluded, that Biden is a generic candidate. He\u2019s the guy with the D next to his name on the ballot. He may as well not have a name. And the theory is, you don\u2019t get elected as a dull, dryball generic. So Mr. Thaddeus G. McCotter tells his two buddies here “that the Democrats are running a ‘gaslight election.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"“What was missing from the Democratic Party was a real candidate and issues. In the past, these have been requisite for waging a campaign for the White House. Today, though, the Democrats, quite deliberately, have turned the 2020 presidential election from a contest into a referendum.” They\u2019re actually asking people to vote against Donald Trump\u2019s personality. That\u2019s it! That\u2019s the sum total of their campaign.<\/p>\n

Stop and think of that. They are actively trying to rev people up, get \u2019em ginned up, get \u2019em mad, get \u2019em angry, get \u2019em motivated over a guy\u2019s personality. “This explains the Democratic Party power brokers\u2019 selection of Biden [in the first place] to serve as a ‘safe\u2019 face for the party, one that needs to do little more than read platitudes from his teleprompter.”<\/p>\n

Because, you see, we know “Biden is not driving and has not driven the campaign. He and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, are both along for the opaque windowed limousine ride. Biden-Harris are nothing but a Democratic generic ballot: ‘Who would you vote for today, President Trump or a Democrat?'” That is the campaign they are running. “Yet, the American electorate is still accustomed to being respected enough that a party is expected to provide a real candidate and positions on” real issues, a real agenda.<\/p>\n

“Consequently, in conjunction with their elitist left-wing pillars of support — namely the media, academia, [big] tech, and other corporate titans — Democrats are gaslighting voters. Their goal is to conceal the Democrats\u2019 absence of a real candidate and issues; confuse the majority of voters who believe they are better off than they were four years ago — you know, when Biden was vice president…”<\/p>\n

Nobody was better off four years ago when Biden was vice president or when Obama was president, and the recent Gallup polls bear this out. So they\u2019re out there trying to say, “Oh, yeah, you\u2019d be much happier with biden!” Joe Biden\u2019s never won a presidential race. He\u2019s never won a presidential primary. There isn\u2019t any of this that makes any sense. So, as I said, “The Democrats want to incite voters to hate Donald Trump\u2019s personality; and, in a referendum election, they believe this will convince these voters to vote against their own interests.”<\/p>\n

In other words, vote against manufacturing jobs returning. Vote against a growing and roaring economy. Vote against replacing a worn-out health care system with one that works and makes sense. They literally believe they can make people vote against their own self-interests by convincing that this is a referendum election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the thing: To keep this election a referendum, as opposed to an actual election. In an election, you\u2019d have one candidate set of issues. “This is what I think\u2019s best for this country. This is how I\u2019m gonna do it; this how you\u2019re gonna benefit.” The other candidate would be saying the same thing. You have only got one candidate doing that, only one candidate promising to make America better than it is today.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve only got one candidate promising to do what he can to sustain America\u2019s greatness. We\u2019ve only got one candidate attempting to restore law and order to America\u2019s streets. We\u2019ve only got one candidate. We don\u2019t have two. We don\u2019t have a second candidate promising his version of the same things. We have a candidate who\u2019s not seen.<\/p>\n

We have a candidate who doesn\u2019t draw flies. We\u2019ve got a candidate who\u2019s now put a lid on his campaign all the way through Thursday, announced yesterday. So “the Democrats can\u2019t let Biden or issues affect your vote. Offering little more than free stuff, fear, and hate, the Democrats want you to vote based upon the president\u2019s personality, not his policies…” They lose in a policy race, and they lose big.<\/p>\n

But if they can get you to vote against Trump because you hate him, \u2019cause you don\u2019t like his personality, \u2019cause you don\u2019t like how mean he was to Plugs in the first debate, because you don\u2019t look the way he tweets… If you can do that, how silly, how inconsequential, how irrelevant to the future of America, when we have a candidate a candidate essentially promising to work his tail off to make and Keep America Great, which means you.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump loves you. He loves the people that make America work, versus the guy who\u2019s trying to make you oppose all that because you don\u2019t like his personality. They certainly don\u2019t want you aware of Donald Trump\u2019s “proven accomplishments,” which is why Trump needs to keep reciting them. “Hiding both their candidate and their issues from the voters ought to be disqualifying among self-respecting voters.”<\/p>\n

Self-respecting voters ought to have been saying to themselves about now: You know what? They\u2019re asking me to vote for them, and I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m voting for. They\u2019ve got me voting against Trump \u2019cause I\u2019m supposed to hate Trump\u2019s personality, but they don\u2019t even give me reasons to vote for them — and if pressed, they couldn\u2019t name any.<\/p>\n

Biden voters, I mean.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCTIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to play an audio sound bite.<\/p>\n

And this is just to illustrate the point that I just made, that the Democrats have nothing other than Biden and Kamala Harris has generic candidates. They\u2019re the people that got a D next to their name, but they\u2019re not running a campaign of vote for them. They\u2019re literally trying to convince people to elect them because of Donald Trump\u2019s personality. Now, stop and think of this.<\/p>\n

Get past Trump\u2019s personality. What\u2019s he done? What does he want to do? What are his achievements? What\u2019s his record? It\u2019s astounding. It is over the top achievement oriented. And they want you to ignore that. They want you to not even pay attention to it. They don\u2019t want you to even know it. Instead, they want you to vote against Donald Trump because of his personality. And here comes Fauxcahontas, from a campaign event yesterday, St. Paul, Minnesota, proving the point.<\/p>\n

\"\"WARREN: Donald Trump threatens the existence of human life, of all life on this planet. And on November 3rd we will hold Donald Trump accountable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump threatens the existence of human life? All life on this planet? What? How in heck does that happen? How does one person, any person, how does one person threaten the existence of humane life, of all life? Folks, this means they\u2019re running out of descriptions of Trump\u2019s personality to get you to hate. That means they\u2019re running out of various ways to describe what they hate about Trump. Now he gonna kill everybody. Donald Trump gonna kill everybody. He gonna make sure everybody gets killed. He gonna see to it that everybody dies. Wait. Isn\u2019t that what they said climate change was gonna do, kill everybody, if we didn\u2019t get it fixed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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