RUSH: I\u2019ve got a couple of calls up here. In fact, I want to take… Give me line 3. I\u2019m gonna take this blindly. It looks… (interruption) Is he still there or not there? (interruption) He\u2019s there. On paper, it looks good. Sherman… I don\u2019t know how he\u2019s gonna sound, but it looks good. There\u2019s something I want to bounce off anyway. It was a point that I was gonna make anyway. So let\u2019s grab Sherman and use him as the transition.<\/p>\n
Sherman is in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sherman, thanks for calling. How you doing, buddy?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Doing great.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: And I\u2019m glad you\u2019re with us today, and I really appreciate you taking the time to come in when you could have gone for treatment week. I really think you need to hear this, and I think the president needs to hear this. Everybody is taking the wrong message from this election, and they\u2019re missing the message, and they\u2019re angry and demoralized.<\/p>\n
But they need to stop being angry about it. I\u2019m 48, and I actually feel better about the future of the country than I have in a very long time. This was not a blue wave or a wipeout or a repudiation of the president. The Republicans kept the Senate. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins won —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Hang on. Hang on just sec. Now, I\u2019m not… I don\u2019t want to throw cold water on anything, and I agree pretty much with what you\u2019re saying. It was not a blue wave. The country\u2019s not gone socialist. The country did not embrace Joe Biden. That\u2019s not at all what happened here. That\u2019s your point, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But we still had an election stolen! We still had… Now, I agree with your point, too, that anger, you\u2019re gonna have some of that. But it should not be the guiding emotion. On the Senate races, they\u2019re still trying to steal those, Sherman. In Georgia, one of the reasons why they have been holding off on giving that state to Trump, and why they\u2019ve been looking more votes is to force runoffs in both of those Georgia Senate races, which they\u2019ve now done. If they take those two, they run the Senate because that gives them Kamala Harris as the 51st vote as vice president. And that means the blue wave does become the guiding principles of this country.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen, and more importantly, I think the fact is that the president saved the party and he grew the party and he showed us the way by rebuilding it into a party of the working people. And now we need to carry on his work, whether or not he survives this ambush that happened to him —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — in Philadelphia and Detroit and Milwaukee. But we have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court, and we\u2019ve got Sidney Powell and great people working on the legal fight. And hopefully they\u2019ll win, but even if they don\u2019t, the fact is that we have not lost the country, and I think, as a matter of fact, the complete opposite is the case, and I just want to make sure you know that —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I totally do.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and are confident about that, and that the president knows that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: My point today… My point today has been to focus on how the investigation of the fraud is handled and how the information learned in the investigation is then disseminated and what the purpose of the investigation is in the first place. I think it needs to happen because I think fraud cannot be allowed to stand, no matter what we say about it.<\/p>\n
You can say, “Well, look, it took them cheating to win. I feel really good about the country, folks! It took them cheating.” Well, we can\u2019t leave it at that — and don\u2019t take this personally, Sherman. We can\u2019t leave it at “they stole it.” If they stole it, then that becomes institutionalized, and they\u2019ll keep stealing them. It has to be stopped.<\/p>\n
The effort has to be made to uncover what happened and then inform as many millions as possible. We cannot… You can talk about all the great things Trump did for the party, great things for the country. But if the left is permitted, by virtue of what happened, here to change institutionally the presidential election system so that they can steal it every four years, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
That cannot be allowed. We cannot permit that to stand, whether the investigation shows Biden won or not. We want to know whoever won did so legitimately. There cannot be a circumstance where 70 million Americans don\u2019t trust it, and that\u2019s where we are. Now, you\u2019re calling and saying, “We need to look on the bright side.<\/p>\n
“We shouldn\u2019t be mad about it. Trump redid the party.” Here\u2019s another thing, Sherman. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, but the Republican Party as made up of, say, the Never Trumpers? They\u2019re gonna go in there and they\u2019re gonna try to take it back. They\u2019re gonna try to reconstitute the party to what it was before Trump. You\u2019re saying, “Good luck. They ain\u2019t got a prayer.<\/p>\n
“The American people — 95% of the Republican Party — support Trump. That is the party.” Yeah, you say that, but the battle is going to take place. All of these things that you\u2019ve cited have happened. Trump reconstituted and redefined the party. He took it over and remade it in his own image. No question. Trump is not going anywhere no matter what happens in this election.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to do something. I also believe… I got a note from a friend of mine who said, “Rush, Trump has earned our support despite his ups and downs.” He said, “My favorite movie, Rush, is The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah. You know when they turn on one of their own, William Holden — the star of the movie — loses his temper and yells at these guys.<\/p>\n
“‘When you side with a man, you stay with him. If you can\u2019t do that, you\u2019re like some animal. You\u2019re finished. We\u2019re finished, all of us.'” If you haven\u2019t seen The Wild Bunch, you really ought to watch it. It\u2019s a great movie. Sam Peckinpah was from Fresno or is from Fresno. But it\u2019s all about loyalty in hard times, and my friend is pointing out here, “You side with a guy…”<\/p>\n