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<\/p>\nRUSH: There are some Republicans out there that are really slamming Trump for trying to cast doubt on the quality of the vote count. Adam Kinzinger from Illinois — I think he\u2019s from Illinois — who\u2019s a member of Congress that hates Trump, they had a falling out. I don\u2019t know if he was ever really pro-Trump; I don\u2019t remember. But he\u2019s out there saying (paraphrasing), “You can\u2019t go out, start trashing the process like it is. You\u2019re gonna be patient. Just let \u2019em count the votes and you either win or you lose. Be patient.”<\/p>\n
And then Chris Christie\u2019s out there on ABC last night, former governor of New Jersey, “You can\u2019t be trashing a system like this.” And all of these people have had a falling out with Trump at some point since 2016. And this is an opportunity for some of them to get payback.<\/p>\n
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By the way, a heads-up, folks. The Biden campaign, from what I\u2019m hearing, is aiming to declare victory by 4 o\u2019clock this afternoon, Eastern time. I don\u2019t know what that means in the whole legal process. But I know that he was advised to do that by a bunch of people last night. So that\u2019s what they\u2019re apparently aiming for.<\/p>\n
Little random bits of information here. Twitter has now censored four out of the past seven Donald Trump tweets. Four of the last seven Trump tweets have been censored. I mean, you could say Twitter the new gulag. And one other thing. Is anybody else interested, anybody else aware, anybody else cognizant of the fact that so far there doesn\u2019t appear to be any Russian interference in any of this despite Adam Schiff and the entire Democrat Party and the American media telling us that the Russians were already — I mean, weeks ago they were telling us, “The Russians are already meddling in the election.”<\/p>\n
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We\u2019ve even had members of the Trump administration intelligence community telling us the Russians were meddling, and the North Koreans and the ChiComs all were tampering in the election. Isn\u2019t it amazing that there isn\u2019t any reference to that last night or through today? Apparently, the Russians didn\u2019t interfere. A lot of people think that Biden is gonna win. The Russians didn\u2019t interfere. Isn\u2019t that fascinating?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here is a tweet from President Trump that has not been censored, 10 minutes ago. “Wow. It looks like Michigan\u2019s now found the ballots necessary to keep a wonderful young man, John James, out of the U.S. Senate. What a terrible, terrible thing is happening in Michigan.” Yeah. Somehow they found the ballots necessary to keep John James out of the Senate, and a bunch of Republicans are running around telling Trump, “Yeah, well, you just gotta accept it, man. Let it go. Screw it. Do not disagree with the process, Mr. President. It\u2019s beneath you, all that rotgut.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Folks, here\u2019s what\u2019s happening with these Republicans that are seemingly trying to sabotage Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump is fighting for the same people he has always been fighting for: You and me. He\u2019s fighting for this country. He\u2019s not fighting for himself. I mean, yeah, he is, but he\u2019s fighting for us. So you\u2019ve got these Republicans. I just shared with you this Adam Kitzinger — member of Congress, I think from Illinois — is basically telling Trump to shut up and stop complaining and be patient and let the votes get counted and then deal with it if you lose.<\/p>\n
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And then Chris Christie was on ABC News. “I think it\u2019s very…” I\u2019m paraphrasing these. “I think it\u2019s very, very unfortunate what the president\u2019s doing. I think the president should trust the process.” You realize, folks, that there are a lot of RINOs — Republicans in Name Only — a lot of Never Trumper Republicans who are trying to position themselves for 2024.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s gonna take precedence over trying to help Trump win this election. A lot of people in politics are out for themselves. It\u2019s just the way it is, it is what it is, and while… This is what I meant earlier by describing us. You know, you and me, we play by the rules. We have a (sigh) — I don\u2019t know — moral code that has been instilled in us that we try to follow.<\/p>\n
We do our best to uphold it, and we\u2019ve got a guy working his tail off for us, and we just don\u2019t understand his own party undermining him. Yet we do. I mean, intellectually, we do; emotionally, we don\u2019t. I don\u2019t understand why every Republican isn\u2019t all-in on beating the Democrats. That\u2019s what baffles me. Okay. If you cannot support Donald Trump winning, why the hell can\u2019t you support the Democrats losing?<\/p>\n
Especially given who they are and what they intend? We have these seven blue states that are shut down, locked down. They\u2019re being destroyed economically. Why in the world are there not Republicans that want those kinds of Democrats defeated? I understand they don\u2019t like Trump. Not everybody\u2019s universally liked and likable.<\/p>\n
I understand human nature. What I\u2019ve never understood is a bunch of Republicans, particularly in this day and age, who don\u2019t see any urgency in defeating what has become the new radical left that\u2019s today\u2019s Democrat Party. You know, this bunch of people that has never thought there\u2019s a crisis out there. “The country\u2019s not really in danger.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s nothing unique here, Rush. You\u2019re just paranoid. You know, you\u2019re just overwrought, but it\u2019s just the Democrats and Republicans like it always is. The ship of state will always sail on,” they say. “It doesn\u2019t really matter who wins! They\u2019ll win their share, we\u2019ll win our share, and you gotta learn to take it, Rush. So if Trump\u2019s gonna lose, you gotta learn to accept it.”<\/p>\n
No, that\u2019s not some… I\u2019m not gonna accept the Democrats winning. But beyond that, I don\u2019t… See, I say, “I don\u2019t understand,” but I do. That\u2019s what galls me. I don\u2019t. I wish… I\u2019m trying to find a way to express this so that people aren\u2019t gonna laugh at me being naive. I really wish that the Republicans could at least understand that the Democrats have to be defeated.<\/p>\n
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But I guess if you\u2019re an inside-the-Beltway Republican, and if you\u2019re a traditional Republican, and you\u2019re not part of the new Trump coalition that is the Republican Party… If you are from the Bob Dole-George Bush wing of the Republican Party — the Bob Michel wing — where you lose with honor, and that defines your character. And then you win sometimes, but you lose with honor. You certainly…<\/p>\n
If your fate is losing an election, then you accept it. That\u2019s what I don\u2019t understand. But that\u2019s who modern-day RINO Republicans are, and there\u2019s a bunch of them out there, and there\u2019s a bunch of them that want to run for president in 2024. Like McCain. You know, McCain wanted to run for president. I don\u2019t know that he ever seriously thought he was gonna win.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think McCain thought he was ever gonna beat the first African-American running for president, and I don\u2019t think he wanted to. I don\u2019t think McCain wanted his name in the history books as the guy who defeated the first legitimate African-American candidate for president. And, by the way, who was it that proclaimed Obama legitimate?<\/p>\n
It was none other than Joe Biden, and what\u2019d he say about him? Joe Biden said it was good (summarized), finally we had a “clean” and “articulate black guy” Democrat running for the presidency. That\u2019s what he said about Obama. There was barely any criticism of it. Hardly any at all. Yeah, Al Sharpton was offended, but who cared?<\/p>\n
Al Sharpton takes shower every day, so he said, “What do you mean? I\u2019m clean. I\u2019m articulate!” Yeah, but you\u2019re not articulate like Obama was, and he\u2019s got a much better crease in his slacks than you\u2019ll ever have, Reverend Al. Just ask David Brooks. So there\u2019s so much arrayed against Donald Trump because he is the outsider — and what\u2019s happening to Trump is what pushback by the Washington establishment, the administrative state looks like.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s what it looks like. I mean, they were never gonna just sit idly by and let it happen, and if they have to jury-rig elections, well, then that\u2019s what they\u2019ll do. Let\u2019s see. Da, da, da. (muttering) “Races Not Yet Projected.” This is ABC. Yeah. They\u2019ve taken… Arizona has indeed been taken down from Biden by ABC. Yeah. (muttering) What…? By the way, what happened to counting every vote?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not doing that now. We\u2019re letting news networks project winners! We\u2019re having newsrooms call winners — the Fox decision desk, the CNN decision desk, or whatever it is. When did this happen? I mean, they don\u2019t make it official! A network projection does not determine who wins elections. The tally of legal votes is how you determine who wins elections.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see. What else? (muttering) Let me grab audio sound bite 6 and 7. Larry Kudlow. He was on CNBC this morning talking on the program Squawk on the Street. First question: “Chris Christie overnight said the president\u2019s decision to make comments casting doubt on the electoral process is a bad strategic decision.” By the way, why is that?<\/p>\n
If you think votes are being taken from you, if you think an elections i being stolen from you because they spent four years trying to steal an election from him. What does Chris Christie not see here? By the way, pardon my agitated state here. But all of this seems so patently obvious to me. I don\u2019t understand why Chris Christie doesn\u2019t see what\u2019s going on. They spent four years trying to steal the 2016 election from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re trying to steal another one and Christie\u2019s out there saying, “He\u2019s casting doubt on the process.” That\u2019s not casting doubt on the process. The people running the vote tallying in these states is where doubt is being cast on the process. Anyway, here\u2019s Kudlow\u2019s answer to the question, “Do you think it\u2019s a bad decision for Trump to be doing what he\u2019s doing?”<\/p>\n
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KUDLOW: No, I don\u2019t agree. The president was annoyed last night. He\u2019s very angry \u2019cause it\u2019s just seemed like time stopped and counting stopped, and he had leads in crucial states, and none of the networks were giving it to him. There is a suspicion here of fraud. I\u2019m not gonna declare it. I\u2019m just gonna say we are taking the proper precautions. The president is in very good shape in our judgment. We are confident. He needs to pick up one or two of some key states. Not all the mail-in ballots are going to go to Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They have so far.<\/p>\n
KUDLOW: He is in very good shape on the remaining swing states.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s right about something. I remember last night was filled with ebb and flows. And there were a couple of periods last night where, ah, it\u2019s not looking good. And then it turned. And then it turned, and everybody on Fox, for example, started singing from the same hymnal, “It looks like Trump is gonna win again, looks like things are lining up.” You go to other networks, same thing. And that was about the time I decided to cash it in. And that\u2019s when they stopped counting.<\/p>\n
When it looked like the momentum in these ebbs and flows had turned back to Trump based on the vote count in these swing states, that\u2019s when the counting stopped. Kudlow says the president was very angry. Seems like time stopped. The counting stopped. Just like in 2016 for Pennsylvania. Counting stopped for an hour and a half, and everybody knew what was going on. They were looking for votes for Hillary. And they ended up being unable to find them. Kudlow was not finished. He had one more thing he wanted to say.<\/p>\n
KUDLOW: I want to make another point. There was no blue wave yesterday. Okay? Republicans did very well in the Senate. They may lose one seat; maybe not. But they are gonna maintain the majority in the Senate. So that right away says, guess what? No socialism, no major tax hikes that destroy the economy and the stock market.<\/p>\n
Also, there was no blue wave in the House. So far as I see it, the GOP has picked up at least four seats in the House. This was a very strong day for the Republican Party and its principles of free enterprise, low taxes and regulations, maintain energy independence, and tough, fair trade deals. President Trump\u2019s agenda did very well yesterday.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Exactly right. He was not repudiated. Trump personally was not repudiated, much to the real annoyance and depressing of the Democrats and his agenda wasn\u2019t, either. And, folks, I can\u2019t tell you, I can\u2019t emphasize enough, they really were, the Democrats, the media, they were so hoping that there would be a blue wave landslide. And they know that it wasn\u2019t gonna be a landslide for Biden. They know that there is no connection to Biden.<\/p>\n
They wanted this to be pure anti-Trump. They wanted this election yesterday to be able to be interpreted as a thousand percent anti-Trump. They didn\u2019t care whether it was pro-Biden or not. They wanted to be able to say last night and today that the nation had repudiated and rejected Donald Trump. That\u2019s what they were hoping and praying for. They didn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s something else. One more thing before we go to the break. And I kept waiting for somebody to realize this last night. Finally Bret Baier did on the Fox News Channel. Everybody seemed to forget, they\u2019re sitting around talking about the obstacles that Trump faces and various things he\u2019s gotta overcome to win the election. And it was as though nobody remembered that Donald Trump had to endure four years of character assassination by the American mainstream media.<\/p>\n
In other words, whatever percentage of people in this country only are informed from mainstream media, you can\u2019t blame those people for thinking Trump is the biggest scumbag ever to walk the earth. Because for four years that\u2019s how he has been portrayed. He has been portrayed as an incompetent boob, a criminal, a Russian agent, a traitor. There isn\u2019t an American politician, president, you name it, who has had to endure four years of outright character assassination like Donald Trump had to put up with and is still getting.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t stopped. And so when you want to talk about Trump being repudiated, when you want to talk about Trump being refuted and the American people rising up in anger, the fact that they didn\u2019t after four years of character assassination of the guy is amazing to me that he\u2019s even still standing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Back to the phones. Here is Chad in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. I\u2019m glad you called, Chad. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega dittos and well-wishing prayers to you, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The reason why I called is, briefly, I told your screener that my wife — we\u2019re here in Pennsylvania – received two mail-in ballots under two different names. Now, we didn\u2019t know that we even received these until we got a phone call from an election official asking if her ballot had been sent yet and she said, “I didn\u2019t think I received one.” She then proceeded to go through her Stack of Stuff<\/a> and found two ballots, one under her current married name, and one under her name previous to us being married.<\/p>\n And, you know, it certainly calls into question I think some of the validity of this mail-in balloting. I mean, there was nothing really to stop us from sending in both ballots, and as they were under two different names, who knows if it would have ever been caught.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that this kind of thing is going on. We have evidence it\u2019s been going on. I think this is why Trump is justified in questioning the process. There have been so many electoral changes in the last few months going back to the summertime that were obviously designed to help Biden or whoever the Democrat nominee ended up being. All this mail-in stuff and the expanded early vote.<\/p>\n Trump was right to question this stuff when it happened, he\u2019s right to question it now. You got all these RINOs out there, “It\u2019s really beneath Trump and it\u2019s beneath our party to start questioning the process” and so forth. No, it\u2019s not. Not when this process has obviously been changed, altered, in ways that are designed to assist and help somebody who would otherwise lose. And in that instance we\u2019re talking about Biden.<\/p>\n You know, the power of incumbency is incredible. Incumbent presidents rarely lose. I mean, it is so rare. And the Democrats know that. So they\u2019ve come up with ways to alter the system: mail-in ballots, early voting, absentee, all of this stuff. I mean, every one of those techniques is designed to be able to be abused, if you will.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: “Rush, what do you mean by all these things that changed over the summer to help the Democrats?” Well, Joe Biden has benefited from a wholly unvetted mail-in ballot scheme. Folks, a simple question. Real simple question. What do you think the Democrats would be doing? How do you think the Democrats would respond if states began to change voting procedures to help Republicans, if state courts began to change voting procedures to help Republicans?<\/p>\n That\u2019s what\u2019s been happening out there. If major Republican areas, all of a sudden, came up with hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots the next day, how do you think the Democrats would be reacting? Just reverse all of this and these questions answer themselves. But isn\u2019t it interesting that\u2019s never happens? There are never trunk loads of ballots found with Republican names on them.<\/p>\n There are never a lot of mail-in ballots that somehow never got mailed that have the Republican candidate\u2019s name on them. Every one of these mail-in ballots or early ballots all end up in big numbers having Joe Biden\u2019s name on them. Now, just reverse that. What would the Democrats be doing if there\u2019s a bunch of recently discovered, out-of-the-blue, “Hey, look at this, Mabel!<\/p>\n There\u2019s no tested system to minimize mistakes or fraud — and at the same time, there is nothing to give voters any confidence at all that these ballots (i.e., elections) are trustworthy. For crying out loud, now we\u2019ve got states with voting loopholes big enough to fly a fleet of jets through. Key states don\u2019t have systems to facilitate corrections.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-090420-mail.jpg\")
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“Why, we just found a hundred thousand ballots out there with Donald Trump\u2019s name on \u2019em!” Do you think the Democrats would be talking about respecting the process, and not questioning what\u2019s going on? So Joe Biden has benefited from a totally unvetted mail-in ballot scheme.<\/p>\n
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And so what he does is he comes out and he says we gotta solve this problem of identity theft. These stupid little Social Security cards that we have, let\u2019s get a national ID card to say, hey, you\u2019re a citizen, people who are legal residents, they can finally actually have a green card. Citizens can have a red and white striped card. And they can go — what that does, what that allows is he can do that from a national level as president, the Social Security Administration under the department of —<\/p>\n