{"id":371813,"date":"2020-11-02T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=371813"},"modified":"2020-11-03T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:06:36","slug":"turnout-turnout-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/11\/02\/turnout-turnout-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnout! Turnout! Turnout!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got a note from a friend, an email from a friend. And I want to share it with you. “Rush, I was looking back over the left\u2019s stuff about a month ago, stuff they were doing, writing, saying. And they were writing that Trump\u2019s next debate would be worse, that Trump is fat, that he\u2019s old, he\u2019d be on a ventilator, got COVID-19, it would take weeks to recover if he even fully did recover, that his rallies were finished, that he was through. You remember this, Rush?<\/p>\n

“In the immediate days after Trump announced he had COVID-19, they were celebrating. It was gonna be the end of Trump. He can\u2019t campaign like he normally would. And, once again, Rush, isn\u2019t it fascinating. The left, the Democrats, the media, they have no idea who Trump is. They have no idea who he was. They have no idea what he\u2019s about. They have no understanding of who the man is. His indefatigable energy level, his commitment, his love of country, they still don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

\"\"“They had no idea that his next debate would be brilliant. They didn\u2019t calculate that he would use COVID to allay fears, to cement his image as indestructible, middle class warrior, and that he created these huge rallies again on upbeat, defiant optimism. They got all of it wrong, Rush. It\u2019s one of the most remarkable upticks in election history, what Donald Trump has engineered here. Not that I think he was ever really behind, Rush, but to so disabuse the left is quite incredible. What Trump has done to disabuse them, to prove them wrong at every turn is incredible.<\/p>\n

“Nate Silver saying Pennsylvania all but done. Back then, you know, looking back over the past month, Nate Silver was saying Pennsylvania was all but done and over, that it was a Biden sure win. Ten days ago. Ten days ago, Nate Silver wrote, ‘Democrats, you don\u2019t need Pennsylvania to win.\u2019 Now he\u2019s saying, ‘Without Pennsylvania, Biden has a hard time winning.'” That\u2019s right. We just shared with you that sound bite. Here, grab sound bite number 4 again, just to illustrate that my old buddy here knows what he\u2019s talking about. Three, two, one. Hit it.<\/p>\n

SILVER: It would come down to Pennsylvania, and maybe a lot of little things add up and Biden loses Pennsylvania by half a point, and then he doesn\u2019t quite pull off Arizona or North Carolina. Without Pennsylvania, then Biden becomes an underdog.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Ten days ago, though, Nate Silver wrote, “Democrats, you don\u2019t need Pennsylvania to win.” Now he\u2019s saying without Pennsylvania, Biden has a hard time winning. “By the way, Rush, your analyses and your own defiance of your own health challenges have really emboldened the Trump base. It\u2019s really dovetailed into and accelerated Trump\u2019s new ascendance.” That\u2019s an awfully nice thing for my friend to say. And my wife, Kathryn, keeps pounding this at me. You know, I don\u2019t like to make things about me. So I bring up the humility factor a couple notches. But it\u2019s a really nice thing to say. And she tells me every day. She tells me every day, and I love her for it. And now my buddy is echoing it.<\/p>\n

\"\"And he finishes by saying, “I was always really confident, Rush. But now I think Trump can swing enough states that even vote fraud won\u2019t matter.” Folks, that\u2019s all gonna depend on turnout tomorrow. It really does. I can\u2019t emphasize this enough. So many people think that there\u2019s so many votes that their single one vote doesn\u2019t matter. You know, I\u2019ve even had people tell me, “Rush, if the polls close at 7 and I show up and vote at 6:55, are you telling me my vote counts?”<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019m telling you your vote counts. My point is there are people who think that if they vote very near the time the polls close, that their vote doesn\u2019t count. It doesn\u2019t have as much weight. It doesn\u2019t matter. Folks, it does. It matters in ways you can\u2019t possibly calculate or comprehend. More than anything, it matters that you do. If you don\u2019t do it, we\u2019re gonna lose it eventually. You gotta believe me on this.<\/p>\n

The left would love to be able to eliminate elections. If they could figure out a way to still call this a democracy and eliminate elections, they would do it. They don\u2019t win elections on their own. They are not the majority in this country. “What about the popular vote, Rush?” That\u2019s people with party loyalty, folks. That does not indicate we\u2019ve lost the country yet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you that exercising the franchise, the right to vote, is how you preserve it. Your vote matters. It counts no matter how irrelevant you think it is. “Rush, it\u2019s one vote out of however many hundreds of millions -” you\u2019re right, it\u2019s one, and so is everybody else\u2019s. There is nobody else\u2019s vote that counts more than yours. Your vote can cancel out a Democrat vote. You never know the math and how it works. But it doesn\u2019t work if you don\u2019t do it. You have to vote.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Alpharetta, Georgia, this is Dale. Thank you for waiting. I appreciate it, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, no worries. Rush, it\u2019s a real honor to speak with you. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Absolutely. So I\u2019ve got two things to add to the show today. The first is that my wife and I yesterday drove over to Rome, Georgia, for the rally. And we couldn\u2019t get in. The Secret Service closed the gates at 35,000 people. There were thousands and thousands of us not able to get in. And you have to realize, this is on a Sunday night late, it\u2019s cold and windy, and people just could — I mean we were all just standing around. We just wanted to be part of it. It was an amazing sight to see. He\u2019s really changed the dynamic of modern politics.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think there\u2019s no question about that. I mean, I marvel at the numbers of people that are showing up, like you. Why did you want to go? What were you hoping to experience?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s just to be part of history. I mean, he\u2019s an incredible president. And just to be part of it, just to feel the energy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. A lot of people say the same thing, that they just want to be around like-minded people, that they\u2019re so sick and tired of seeing the country portrayed the way it is in the media. They know that\u2019s not their country. They know their country is not made up of a majority of people that want to burn down cities, keep the schools closed, ruin and destroy private sector businesses, defund the police.<\/p>\n

I mean, this is not who America is. And going to a Trump rally is a way to hang around people who are the same as you, people that love America, people who crave a return to the America they grew up in. And that\u2019s what Donald Trump represents. Donald Trump represents a return to that America. And that\u2019s not a white supremacist America. It\u2019s not a misogynist America. It\u2019s not a bigoted America. It is America of worldwide dominance for good and greatness.<\/p>\n

And people want to go to these rallies just to hang around like-minded people, \u2019cause they\u2019re so sick and tired of seeing this country portrayed the way it is.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Don, Salinas, California, welcome, sir. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. When I heard you talking about the individual vote counting in this election, it really struck a chord with me. In 40 years of voting, 2016 was the only time that I ever felt my actual individual vote counted for something, that my voice was actually being heard.<\/p>\n

And like the liberals say, “I felt part of something bigger than myself,” because I campaigned for and voted for Donald Trump — and, against all odds, he won! And this was beating the entire news media. This was beating the lying-est presidential polls in the history of presidential polls. This was beating political machines on both sides! I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was amazing.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You voted for 40 years, and the first time you voted for Trump, that\u2019s the first time you thought your vote really counted?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes! But all the other times I was just voting with the wave, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Voting with the wave, my party\u2019s wave. But this, you know, this really made me feel like an American, when I voted for Donald Trump and he won. And I want the people out there to know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you\u2019ve always voted for losers? Was Trump the first winner you ever voted for?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no. Well, I voted for loser McCain and loser Romney. But I voted for what I thought —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. They both lost.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you ever voted for somebody who won?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Okay. All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You didn\u2019t want to admit that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But look, I\u2019m the host and I had to drag that out of you. See, I have the instincts. I know what… I know what lawyers are trying to hide things. And not necessarily from me but rather, other people. Anyway, Don, I\u2019m just joshing with you. I\u2019m just teasing. I know what you mean. I know how you felt when you voted Trump. You voted for an outsider, and the outsider won.<\/p>\n

And you were all excited about it \u2019cause you felt like your vote counted. And I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019re gonna feel the same way. But you have to vote tomorrow, folks. I\u2019m telling you: Don\u2019t let anybody talk you out of it. Don\u2019t let anybody scare you out of it — and they\u2019re going to try like mad to intimidate you, frighten you into not voting tomorrow. Do not let them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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