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RUSH: Oh, you talk about blowing the conventional wisdom to smithereens, holy smokes. Have you seen this? With Jeb Bush out, remember what everybody said. You had Trump over here at his 30, 35%, whatever, and you had everybody else over here. And all of that equaled anti-Trump. So you had these people out there saying, “Yeah, so if Kasich gets out or Carson gets out, then those votes are gonna go to Rubio or Cruz and they\u2019re gonna get closer. And then if Cruz or Rubio get out then it\u2019s gonna solidify and eventually we\u2019re gonna beat Trump.”<\/p>\n

All that just got blown to smithereens, folks, because “one-time front-runner Jeb –” when was Jeb the front-runner? Greetings, and welcome back, by the way, Rush Limbaugh — (interruption) It had to be, yeah, that\u2019s right, it had to be before he declared. Yeah, back in December 2014 when Jeb was saying he\u2019s gonna win the general by losing the primary. And, as I said yesterday, the first stage of that he\u2019s done. So, according to the Bush team, they are primed now to win the general election because they\u2019ve lost the primary. That must have been when he was the highest rated back in late 2014 and the first half of maybe 2015 before he announced, before Trump got in.<\/p>\n

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One time front-runner Jeb Bush\u2019s exit from the 2016 GOP presidential race has helped Donald Trump expand his lead.” Oh, no. That wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. Bush\u2019s votes, as relatively few they are, not supposed to go to Trump. No, no, no. Of all the candidates, Bush voters would never go to Trump. Maybe Carson\u2019s. Maybe some of Rubio\u2019s if he got out, maybe some of Cruz\u2019s, but it wouldn\u2019t happen, not a single Jeb voter would migrate to Trump.<\/p>\n

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Rasmussen Reports said today that Trump has expanded his lead by 15 points. This is a Rasmussen national survey, 36%. Rubio\u2019s at 21. Cruz is at 17. Rasmussen found that Trump expanded his lead by five points, timed to when Jeb got out. So all of this conventional wisdom that every candidate would support other than Trump, Trump\u2019s not gonna get any of it, I\u2019ve been warning people that that\u2019s not the case anyway. And now we have our first bit of — this gonna shock \u2019em. This is gonna blow \u2019em wide open. They\u2019re not gonna know what hit \u2019em.<\/p>\n

And the second polling story today is that in Ohio Trump beat Kasich by six points. And that\u2019s the only reason Kasich is hanging on, is to have a good showing in Ohio. Kasich wants to be kingmaker. Kasich knows he not gonna be the nominee. Kasich wants to be the kingmaker, maybe even be the veep. And yesterday Larry Sabato and somebody else on television suggested that the fastest, best way to head Trump off at the pass is for Rubio to go out there and ask Kasich to be his VP and for Kasich to accept it. So eventually Kasich\u2019s vote could all go to Rubio, particularly when they get into Ohio, and then have the ticket Kasich-Rubio, Florida-Ohio, and skunk Trump, and that\u2019s the only way they can do it.<\/p>\n

If they don\u2019t do it and do it fast, according to Sabato and some of the others, there\u2019s no stopping Trump. Kevin McCarthy: better than 50% chance Trump\u2019s the nominee. Others are saying that time is dwindling away. But this Ohio poll showing Trump ahead of Kasich, I don\u2019t know what people were expecting, but apparently they were expecting Kasich to win that because he\u2019s the governor there and is a relatively popular figure there. But it\u2019s amazing, the evidence is right in front of everybody and they continue, many of them, to remain in various states of denial.<\/p>\n

Can I give you two contrasting stories here today? Lead story all morning at Drudge: Trump says that if he\u2019s elected president he will prosecute Hillary. Do you know what a big deal that is to people? I think this is another one of these classics. I believe that people see that and don\u2019t believe Trump means it, he\u2019s just mouthing off, that he would never, ever do it, and big whoop. Why is Drudge making that the lead story? The truth of the matter is, there are people out there who have wanted Hillary Clinton prosecuted since the nineties. There are people out there who have wanted Bill and Hillary Clinton seriously intersecting with the law since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of people who — this will surprise you. And it\u2019s anecdotal. I\u2019ve had about five e-mail notes today from people, “That\u2019s it. I\u2019m going Trump. If he really does that, that\u2019s it.” The hatred or the opposition or the disgust with the Clintons is so deep and profound that even something as innocuous as something people think Trump will flip-flop on has energized some people. And I mentioned it \u2019cause I still think that there\u2019s a lot of people, even with the evidence right in front of them, still do not realize what\u2019s going on.<\/line><\/p>\n

So on one hand here we have Trump promising, claiming that he will try, he will prosecute Hillary. On the other hand, this is — I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ll just read it to you. Real Clear Politics, Marco Rubio lays out his policies. He was on with O\u2019Reilly last night. By the way, Dr. Krauthammer got annoyed with O\u2019Reilly last night. I happened to accidentally have the TV on. Yeah, I was watching some stuff on Apple TV and hit the wrong button and it switched over to DirecTV and Fox News was on from the weekend, so I watched it a little bit, and O\u2019Reilly did his usual thing of giving his analysis and then asking Krauthammer, “Okay, where am I right or where am I wrong.”<\/p>\n

And Krauthammer\u2019s not there to tell everybody whether O\u2019Reilly\u2019s right or wrong. He\u2019s there to tell everybody what he thinks, and he answered it, and there was kind of a lot of friction there. But, anyway, O\u2019Reilly last night grilled Marco Rubio what his policy will be on illegal immigration and immigration in general. And Rubio said, “If we prove illegal immigration is finally under control, Americans will respond in a responsible way.” Now, my guess is that this is exactly why the conservative or the Republican base does not want to hear from Marco Rubio right now.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, folks. Because, look, if this is side-by-side, A-B comparison, here\u2019s Trump still assuring everybody he\u2019s gonna build a wall, still assuring everybody they\u2019re gonna go. The people here illegally are gonna go. Trump… No matter what happens, what Trump is saying is that\u2019s what he\u2019s gonna do. He\u2019s not wavered. And over here, Rubio is essentially saying, “Hey, look, once we secure the border, I\u2019m sure the American people will respond in a responsible way.” The translation for that is: “We\u2019re not gonna send \u2019em home.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna find a way to keep them here. It may not equal amnesty. It may not equal whatever.” But I\u2019m just telling you that this is not what people that Rubio needs to vote for him need to hear. Then you have Cruz comes out today or last night, I guess, whatever it was, and doubled down. He made it no bones about it: He\u2019s gonna deport. He supports it. People said, “We\u2019re not quite sure what you\u2019re gonna do here, Senator. You\u2019re talking tough on amnesty and so forth, but what happens? You\u2019re elected president, and what happens?”<\/line><\/p>\n

“They\u2019ve gotta follow the law. We\u2019re gonna get rid of them. We\u2019re gonna send \u2019em back. We\u2019re gonna make \u2019em get back in the country legally. We\u2019ll deport all of them.” So Trump and Cruz are saying that. Rubio over here is saying, “Well, if we prove that illegal immigration\u2019s finally under control,” meaning if we prove we secure the border, “I\u2019m sure the American people will understand.” He said, “As far the 12 million that are here? Look, I don\u2019t believe the American people support some sort of militaristic roundup of individuals.<\/p>\n

“And I don\u2019t think you can carry it out. The sort of tactics it would require would offend the American people.” Maybe. I\u2019m not so sure it would offend. I mean, it would offend some, sure. But, I mean, the people that we\u2019re talking about here voting in Republican primaries? I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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