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RUSH: Listen to Ronald Brownstein here on CNN today. Chris Cuomo said, “I want your thoughts, Ron, on Trump\u2019s attack on George W. Bush.”<\/p>\n

BROWNSTEIN: In this debate, Trump was as kind of unbound as we have seen him in any debate. He was as intemperate, unpresidential, belligerent, and iconoclastic in denouncing Bush in language usually heard from Democrats. If he can hold his piece of the coalition after this, it is really an indication of how deep that connection is, how difficult it is to shake it. He really pushed the boundaries of acceptability for a Republican. If he holds it after this, I think that\u2019s gonna be a big statement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But the statement, “If he holds his people after this,” the statement will be just how livid Republicans voters are at the Washington establishment. Now, you may, “Come on, Rush, everybody knows that.” I\u2019m not sure that the establishment yet has an accurate idea of how deep this resentment is. And here\u2019s another thing. The more they learn it the more they resolve to say “screw you.” It used to be — and it\u2019s not that long ago, I could go back to 2002 and give you an example of this. When the voters rejected a party, the party tried in many ways, at any rate, to tell voters they were gonna the change, and they heard, “We hear you, we hear you, we understand.” <\/p>\n

There\u2019s none of that anymore. If voters don\u2019t vote the way the party wants, the party says, “Screw you.” And they dig their heels in, the Democrats especially, but I think the Republican establishment, over amnesty and a couple other things. If Trump gains support here, it\u2019s not just about the solid nature of Trump\u2019s support. I\u2019m not trying to diminish that. But it\u2019s also about just how angry people are at Washington. And Trump is the best vessel to display that of all the other Republicans running. Cruz a close second. Now, grab sound bite 26 again. Something else could be going on, however. Here is Trump again this afternoon, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.<\/line><\/p>\n

TRUMP: He is a liar. He apologized to Carson after the event. What good does it do? Carson said, “Yeah, but I lost all those votes,” and he apologized to him after. He should have apologized to me also because, frankly, I would have won. But it doesn\u2019t matter. But he apologized. He said, “I\u2019d like to apologize to you, Ben.” The election is over. And what they should do, if Iowa had any guts, the people from the Republican Party — which they don\u2019t — they should disqualify him from winning Iowa. I really mean it. Because what he did was a fraud.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what is this really all about? It\u2019s about Cruz. Why? Why still be going after Cruz? It\u2019s Saturday night, you go after George W. Bush, which Trump has walked back a little bit. I should point that out. He has walked back a tad his criticism of Bush. But he has not walked back his criticism of Cruz on this Ben Carson business at all. <\/p>\n

The more I think about it, folks, I am more convinced that what Trump did Saturday night was a politically strategic thing, and that was to go after the fringe leftists in South Carolina who can cross over and vote in the Republican primary. Now, why would Trump want to do that? Is running in a Republican primary. Why would he want — other than, you know, broadening the base or what have you, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Trump\u2019s saying. What\u2019s he doing? I think it\u2019s one of two things. He either wants to smoke the field here, he just wants this over, he wants such a sweeping, domineering win Saturday that it sends the signal this is over. <\/p>\n

Or something else is happening. And the something else that\u2019s happening is something that you won\u2019t know about because if it is happening, the media isn\u2019t gonna want to tell you. Conservative or liberal media isn\u2019t gonna want to tell you, and that could be that Ted Cruz is gaining ground. And with Trump continuing to focus on Cruz, it tells me that maybe this is indeed happening. I mean, still going after Cruz on this supposed fraud that happened with Ben Carson? The effort there obviously, the purpose of that is to deal legitimize Cruz as a candidate, in the eyes of voters. There\u2019s no question that that\u2019s what Trump\u2019s appealing to here. <\/p>\n

But why? Why worry about Cruz after you go after George W. Bush and Iraq and weapons of mass destruction and 9\/11 and all that, then to circle back to Cruz still? Well, I have this story from The Daily Beast. Not The Daily Caller. That\u2019s Chatsworth Osborne Jr.\u2019s site. The Daily Beast is a hard-left sight. “The Secret Army Stumping for Ted Cruz<\/a>” is the headline here. And the point this story makes is that Ted Cruz keeps outperforming his polling. And he\u2019s getting no press on it.<\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, I challenge you, like I did, go read any of the standard operating procedure analysis of the Saturday night debate of Cruz. I don\u2019t care who it is. I\u2019m not calling names here. Just go anywhere you want in conservative media that has an establishment bent, and you will read Rubio made people forget his slip-ups in the previous debate, Trump did whatever he did, and they talk about Carson, and when they get to Ted Cruz, they say, “Cruz mostly turned in a solid but unnoticeable performance yet again. Ted Cruz didn\u2019t stand out on Saturday night. Ted Cruz had an off night.” <\/p>\n

Never, ever is Cruz credited for being the great debater that he is. Rubio was chided for blowing his chance by that constant repetition to Christie\u2019s questioning. But then the focus Saturday night after people stopped talking about Trump, they went to Rubio and they said — this was on Fox and CNN, the other places — “Yeah, yeah, you know we\u2019re all wondering here if Marco Rubio could make people forget that horrible performance in New Hampshire, and we think, Joe, that he did.” <\/p>\n

“Well, thank you, Ted, appreciate your analysis. What do you think, Jane?” <\/p>\n

“Yeah, I\u2019d have to agree with you. I think Marco was so damn strong tonight, he actually did make people forget.” <\/p>\n

“And what\u2019d you think of Ted Cruz?” <\/p>\n

“Well, you know he was there tonight.” But here we have The Daily Beast: “The Secret Army Stumping for Ted Cruz.” Ted Cruz keeps outperforming his polling. He\u2019s getting very little credit or press for it. It\u2019s very much under the radar, and of all places for it to be noticed here, a left-wing website. I\u2019ll just give you a pull quote as an example: “South Carolina politicos describe it as an effective, relentless operation.” This is Cruz and his PACs. “And it has some of Cruz\u00c2\u2019s opponents feeling a little jittery.” An operative for a rival campaign, unnamed, said, “I\u2019ll be very shocked, honestly, if Ted Cruz doesn\u2019t win South Carolina.” <\/p>\n

“Trump has led by double digits in all the recent Palmetto State polls. But some are skeptical that his lead is really that commanding. And they point to the different ground games … as evidence for their doubt. Keep the Promise staff explained that the group has been door-knocking across the state, in a few targeted regions and counties, since last November. In early January, those door-knockers started focusing on persuasion: identifying likely Republican primary voters who favor an Evangelical Christian candidate, knocking on their doors, and having conversations aimed at persuading them to back Cruz.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Another pull quote: “Matt Moore, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party said the PAC may have an even farther reach than the campaign proper since Keep the Promise [the PAC supporting Cruz] is the first and only long-term, large-scale super PAC canvassing operation in the state.” No other candidate has one like this. Then he added, Matt Moore did, chairman, South Carolina Republican Party, “that Keep the Promise is the only super PAC he knows of that has any sort of ground game in the state. Paul Lindsay, a representative for Right to Rise, said his PAC also has a professional canvassing operation that recently moved down from New Hampshire to South Carolina. But it hasn\u00c2\u2019t made nearly the splash with locals as Keep the Promise.<\/p>\n

“And the Keep the Promise team is pretty confident that their ground game tops that of their closest rival, Donald Trump. The mogul\u00c2\u2019s team has sent RVs of volunteers around the Upstate door-knocking. But Tripp said those efforts are more about marketing than anything else.”<\/p>\n

And then there is internal polling out there, Bush campaign and others, which shows that Cruz is slowly, steadily closing in. So here is a possible scenario to explain what happened Saturday night. And by the way, don\u2019t underestimate the political infrastructure Trump has in his inner circle. He has a lot of professional, experienced political operatives, consultants, and advisors. It\u2019s not a shoot-from-the-hip operation per se. By that I mean there are strategic political objectives that are formed and executed. <\/p>\n

And it could well be that the reason Trump made his appeal to the Democrats in South Carolina with his approach on Saturday night is because he knows that the South Carolina Republican base is so evangelical, so oriented to somebody like Cruz that he may not think that he can win a majority of that base. So to offset that he has made his appeal via his statement Saturday night to these Democrats and independents who can cross over. I don\u2019t have any doubt that that\u2019s what he did. Now, the “why,” that\u2019s up for grabs. We don\u2019t know. Well, we know that he\u2019s trying to attract \u2019em, and we know that he wants them. <\/p>\n

Is it because his own internal polling shows that he\u2019s not doing all that well with Republican conservatives in South Carolina, or is it that he is and just wants to smoke the field and be done with this and move on into the SEC primaries with it all a formality? Could it be that he\u2019s tired of seeing Jeb Bush on the stage and wants him gone? Could it be…? This was somebody else\u2019s theory, and I don\u2019t think this is right, but this will show you what some people think of Trump. Some people are telling me that they think that he went after Bush simply \u2019cause [George W.] Bush is showing up today to campaign for Jeb, and that that offends Trump. <\/p>\n

“Okay, I got a guy coming in here that\u2019s gonna be ripping me? I got a guy coming in here…?” This is Saturday, Trump\u2019s frame of mind. “I got a guy showing up, an ex-president, to support this lackey? I got a guy with his brother coming in \u2019cause this guy can\u2019t handle it himself? Jeb can\u2019t get above five points on his own; so he\u2019s gotta bring in big brother? Well, to hell with that! If Bush is coming in here not supporting me, I\u2019m gonna make him pay for it.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what some people have told me, that this is the way Trump\u2019s mind works. If you\u2019re not supporting him, if you\u2019re coming in to try to get him, he\u2019s gonna preempt you, head you off at the pass, and Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid you. And you have everybody asking, “Who are those guys that just keep coming?” That\u2019s Trump. So there\u2019s all kinds of theories that are all over the board, but there\u2019s no question in my mind now that he did not lose control. That\u2019s the wrong way to say it.<\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question in my mind that he meant to say what he said. Maybe he didn\u2019t mean to say it as he said it, the emotional incontinence. But he intended to do it. There\u2019s no question he made a play for crossovers. He\u2019s got a hard-core bunch of supporters. There\u2019s no doubt. It\u2019s the biggest group of hard-core supporters any candidate has out there. But in South Carolina, it may not be enough. We just won\u2019t know, folks. The thing that George Will and others think is that okay, this may be critical mass.<\/p>\n

Not the straw that broke the back, but critical mass. This may be the one time too much where Trump has gone off, this time on a revered Republican, and this is going to cause Trump supporters to waver. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. And if I\u2019m right, and if they don\u2019t waver, if Trump doesn\u2019t lose anything because of this, it\u2019s gonna be… The explanation is a testament to how deep the rage is toward the Republican establishment. So we shall see as the week progresses. But it\u2019s clear that Trump is targeting Cruz.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that some people are noticing that Cruz, in every one of these things, is outperforming his polling numbers, even winning Iowa. It\u2019s the clear nobody\u2019s reporting this or talking about it. It\u2019s happening totally under the radar. And the reason nobody\u2019s reporting it is \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to see it. Remember, the establishment may hate Cruz more than they hate Trump. Even after Saturday night. Their hatred for Cruz is institutional. Their hatred for Trump is situational. Big difference. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump called a press conference a few minutes ago and that press conference is underway. And he is basically reiterating his debate points from Saturday night. He is just tearing into Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is the biggest liar Trump\u2019s ever known; he\u2019s not qualified to be president. Ted Cruz is a fraud. He may not even be legitimately an American because he was born in Canada. He just really laid it on. He is now back on the Middle East. We shouldn\u2019t be taking people from Syria. He\u2019s doing his greatest hits.<\/p>\n

He hit Bush on Iraq yet again. He\u2019s basically restating what were the controversial statements of the performance on Saturday night in the debate with the additional Ted Cruz stuff. That tells me and my highly tuned antennae that Cruz is moving, that there is internal polling data somewhere that somebody has that shows Cruz moving up. Now, The Right Scoop has a story that internal Bush polling is showing this. Just so you know, I\u2019m not making it up out of… Well, I don\u2019t make anything up. I\u2019m just speculating here. <\/line><\/p>\n

The Right Scoop<\/a> has a story that internal Bush polling is showing Cruz making “a serious move in South Carolina,” a serious move. And apparently Trump and his people believe it, because this was an-all-out hit job just now on Cruz. I\u2019m sure Cookie is rolling. And hopefully we\u2019ll have some sound bites of this before the program ends. It\u2019s been going on actually before I knew it was a press conference. We could have JIP\u2019d some of it. I thought it was taped interview. But it\u2019s actually the presser. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s in Hanahan, South Carolina, and he\u2019s reliving his Middle East and how he prognosticated that. He talked about bin Laden being a bad guy, that we should have killed bin Laden. Oh, that\u2019s another thing: He blamed Bush for not killing bin Laden. That\u2019s Clinton, folks! Rubio got that right. Now, Bush has arrived in South Carolina, and he\u2019s signing books and making appearances for Jeb, which no doubt… I know I\u2019m right about this. This doesn\u2019t sit right with Trump, and so he\u2019s… There are all kinds of explanations for this that are political. <\/p>\n

My point to you is, Trump is not insane, and he is… John Podhoretz wrote a column on Sunday in the New York Post saying that Trump was out of control, and I know it looked like it, but I don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s out of control. I think it\u2019s strategic. I think the booing that he received from people he thought were a stacked deck (Jeb donors and Rubio donors) might have caused him to get angrier than he intended to be, and I know you can be saying, “Well, hey, you know, Rush, you gotta get used to that. Presidents have gotta control their temperament.” <\/p>\n

You know what I would say to that? I\u2019m telling you: His supporters want more of this. His supporters are dying to say to the establishment what Trump is saying to them. Do not doubt me on this. They\u2019ve got seven years of being ticked off and maybe even more than that, but seven years of no push-back on Obama. Our people think that Obama\u2019s destroying this country, destroying the future for their kids and grandkids, and they can\u2019t get the Republican Party\u2019s ear on this. The Republican Party will not hear them.<\/line><\/p>\n

The Republican Party will not react that way. The Republican Party doesn\u2019t act like it has anything to defend, and these people are frustrated beyond their ability to express it. Their anger is palpable, and it\u2019s real. And that\u2019s why Trump is not, I don\u2019t think, in serious danger of losing his supporters. I don\u2019t know how to say it any differently than I have. I just… I think this intense… It\u2019s a combination of emotions, too. It\u2019s anger, it\u2019s fear, it\u2019s rage over what Obama and the Democrats have been doing to this country with no push-back. <\/p>\n

And, you know, Trump has become the vessel for that outrage.<\/p>\n

I mean, I could sit here and say to you that Ted Cruz would be just as legitimate a candidate to support. Trump and Cruz are pretty equal on the… The establishment hates Cruz more than they hate Trump, and that should tell you something. They genuinely fear what Cruz is gonna do, in terms of rewinding and stopping the transformation and doing things the establishment doesn\u2019t want to do. So it\u2019s a fascinating thing to watch go on here, \u2019cause I\u2019ve never seen a Republican candidate make this direct and broad appeal to Democrats by really ripping into what is assumed to be a revered former Republican president, George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

And in South Carolina, he is. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, here it is in even more detail. “An Internal poll for the Jeb Bush supporting Super PAC Right to Rise shows Donald Trump is in first place, with a narrow 26 percent to 24 percent lead over Ted Cruz.” So margin of error, Cruz has moved into a tie with Trump in South Carolina. That\u2019s an internal poll of the Bush campaign. It\u2019s reported at RedState.com. It\u2019s reported at TheRightScoop.com. So this would explain a lot of what happened on Saturday night and what happened today. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"large\"RUSH: Here. This will give you a flavor. We have one bite from the Trump press conference this afternoon in Hanahan, South Carolina, talking about Ted Cruz.<\/line><\/p>\n

TRUMP: He just comes out and boom, boom, boom, absolute lies. Now, he\u2019ll apologize, but I don\u2019t want an apology after the election. If he does it I\u2019m gonna bring a lawsuit because, in my opinion, based on what I\u2019ve learned over the last two, three days, from very top lawyers, he doesn\u2019t even have the right to serve as president or even run as president. So we will bring a lawsuit if he doesn\u2019t straighten his act out. He\u2019s a lying guy, a really lying guy. Some people misrepresent — this guy\u2019s just a plain out liar.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that was a prime focus of Trump\u2019s presser today. He focused on other items as well, and just to repeat, internal Bush polling has Trump at 26 and Cruz at 24 in South Carolina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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