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RUSH: A bunch of new polls out today. NBC\/Wall Street Journal shows Ben Carson nationally ahead of everybody. Nobody can figure it out. Some people are saying, “Hey, hey, Carson\u2019s the only Republican that didn\u2019t whine and moan about the debate moderators on CNBC, and look what happened, his poll numbers skyrocket.” We\u2019ve got a Reuters poll that shows Trump is over everybody nationally and gaining ground. It\u2019s the NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll that has Carson way up. In the Monmouth poll, the media going nuts over the fact that Marco Rubio tripled his support. As we told you yesterday, he went up from four points to 13 points. <\/p>\n

Trump is still at 26 in that poll. Trump today had another one of these press conferences that was reminiscent of the day he announced. It was a tour de force. We have some of the audio sound bites. I\u2019m sure — ahem, ahem — that Cookie is continuing to roll off audio from this today, because he just launches into Jeb Bush, really launches into Rubio. He was much kinder to Carson (imitating Trump), “I just don\u2019t think Ben\u2019s up to it, you know. I just don\u2019t see Ben negotiating with the tough people out there. He\u2019s a great guy, I just don\u2019t think that Ben\u2019s really up for this.” He was almost sympathetic, but really, really just tore into Rubio. <\/line><\/p>\n

And Trump went back to the issue that put him on the map, and that\u2019s immigration, and that\u2019s the area that he really hit Rubio on. That\u2019s a smart thing for Trump to do is to continue to highlight immigration, because that\u2019s why he\u2019s on the map. But this thing is — well, it is not going on still, but it went on for 45 minutes or an hour. It had 80,000 people watching it on Facebook. I mean, doing what they do to expand that audience. Trump\u2019s got new book out that was ostensibly the excuse for the press conference. He started complaining about the picture they used on the cover of his own book. He said they chose the worst picture they could find. It\u2019s his book! <\/p>\n

He said he doesn\u2019t mind moderators. He loves debating. He thinks some of the other candidates ought to drop out now, they don\u2019t have a prayer, they\u2019re just gumming up the works. He had the press eating from the palm of his hand. When he liked a question (imitating Trump), “Hey, Sarah from CNN, that\u2019s a great question. You know, I love getting great questions like that, Sarah. CNN, you hear that? That\u2019s how you ask questions, media. That\u2019s a great question.” I don\u2019t remember what the question was. It doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

Then Howard Kurtz (imitating Trump), “Howard Kurtz, my favorite media guy, Fox News Howard Kurtz, what do you got for me, Howard?” That\u2019s when CNN cut out, when Trump started promoting Fox. Anyway, we\u2019ve got some of that and we will accumulate even more. So that kind of sets the table. Diet Coke will kill you<\/a>. The EPA is targeting air-conditioning. Global warming will destroy sex drive because who wants to sweat during sex. That\u2019s gonna cause fewer people to be born, which means economies are gonna drag, and air-conditioning is gonna become an aphrodisiac except the EPA is targeting it for destruction. All that\u2019s just in two stories. <\/p>\n

And have you heard what Obama is doing? I raise my hand. I raise my hand again and — oh, by the way, Trump launched into Obama today, too, something that the other Republicans don\u2019t have much gumption to do. He really bore into Obama on interest rates and the Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen. (imitating Trump) “Interest rates need to go up. This is absolutely crazy. The only people benefiting here are people on Wall Street. Interest rates needs to go up. Janet Yellen won\u2019t raise interest rates because Obama doesn\u2019t want her, too, because Obama wants to keep playing golf and not have the country blow up while he\u2019s on the golf course. He wants the country to blow up and go into misery after he leaves office so the next president gets the blame for everything”. So he\u2019s telling Yellen to keep interest rates flat, not raise them, delaying the economic implosion that\u2019s headed our way for when he\u2019s already out of office and on the golf course when it happens, it doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump did this press conference today and it just scorched Facebook. The last report I had, there were a hundred thousand people on Facebook watching it. Watching it on Facebook, not watching it on network TV. They were watching it on their devices, on their computers, on Facebook, and they were commenting to all their friends on Facebook what they were doing, and it was a geometric proportion expansion of people watching and commenting on this thing. <\/p>\n

It is my contention that Trump has done much more to garner support with these types of appearances than anything that\u2019s happened in a debate, leading with his original announcement. Back in June when he announced and went after the issue of illegal immigration, I think he\u2019s continued to feed off that, and as long as he keeps going back to that and doesn\u2019t waver on it and doesn\u2019t weaken or soften, I don\u2019t see his support going anywhere, not from people who are with him because of that issue. And he hit that again hard today. But he did almost an hour today. <\/p>\n

So my point is that Ben Carson could be doing a lot of things outside the debates that could be legitimately garnering support. By the same token, there\u2019s some candidates that look absolutely horrible in these debates, and they\u2019re not losing ground. Of course, they don\u2019t have much ground to lose going in. But they are flat lining. I think there\u2019s a lot of overemphasis on these debates, and one of the reasons for that is they\u2019re entertaining, or can be. They hold out the potential to be entertaining. And people think that major ground can be made by virtue of a debate performance, and we have seen somebody blow it. That we know can happen. Like when Gerald Ford slipped up and tried to tell us that the Soviet Union was not communist. Or that Poland was not in the Soviet sphere of things. <\/line><\/p>\n

They tried to take Reagan out in the first debate in 1984, tried to claim that he had already lost it. They failed in that effort. But I\u2019ve seen people in debates ruin their chances negatively. But it\u2019s arguable that one or two debate performances can launch you. It\u2019s happened. But it takes more than that, and just to repeat, what Trump did today among people who saw it, if he\u2019s down, if these polls are right and he\u2019s down in Iowa, down nationally, it\u2019s stuff like what he did today that\u2019s gonna launch him back and get him back to number one, not a debate performance.<\/p>\n

In the first place, there aren\u2019t enough of them. There just aren\u2019t enough of these debates. And you look at the allotted speaking time on these debates, even the person that ends up speaking more than anybody else is about eight minutes, eight or nine minutes. Unless you are really schooled in brevity and the soul of wit and being able to get in, get it, and get out in a sentence or two, there\u2019s nothing you can really do to shock or overwhelmingly impress somebody in that limited amount of time, particularly when you consider the… well, not the bias, but the minds that are already made up on the part of the audience. <\/p>\n

When people turn these debates on half their minds are made up. Most people are not watching these debates undecided. They will tell you they are because they think that\u2019s good citizenship, but they\u2019ve got their minds made up, and they\u2019re watching these debates just like they watch a football game. They want their team to win. When their team\u2019s not doing well, they panic. So you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about here in just a minute. But before we get to that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump and his press conference today on the first floor of the building that he built, and it\u2019s the building where he lives, and it\u2019s the building where his office is. He\u2019s got a new book out,<\/a> and the presser today was ostensibly to sell the book. But it ended up being a wide-ranging press conference with all kinds of reporters from all kinds of different media there. And we have six sound bites of this to give you the flavor. And again, I just want to assert my humble opinion that it is things like this that do more for Trump than any debate performance can do.<\/p>\n

I mean, in terms of helping. His announcement was just like this, and it was that appearance where he stated his position on illegal immigration and described the kind of people that Mexico and Central American countries are sending here, and it\u2019s that appearance that launched him. It\u2019s that appearance that\u2019s kept him at number one. It\u2019s that issue. And I believe that doing more things like that that are televised — press conference-type things, not personal appearances or campaign appearances, but press conferences where the media is there asking questions, \u2019cause he has them in the palm of his hand. And he clearly enjoys it. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, and here we go. The first question. The name of his book is Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again<\/a>, and he talked about Rubio at the beginning.<\/line><\/p>\n

TRUMP: He is a disaster with his credit cards. I\u2019m in Florida all the time. And for years I\u2019ve been hearing that his credit cards are a disaster. I would think when you take a look at it you\u2019re gonna find that. But his credit card debt and his problems with credit cards… He has a very bad record of finances. If you look at what happened with his houses, with his… You know, he certainly lives above his means, there\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When\u2019s the last time you ever heard anybody go after anybody like that? That\u2019s the way the Democrats go after Romney! “He\u2019s not paying his taxes! You look at that. He\u2019s not paying his taxes. But here\u2019s Rubio apparently got a credit card debt problem.” And he was also, he was really pounding Rubio… We\u2019ve got these bites, too. He was on Good Morning America today and a couple other shows. And it is apparent that the Trump campaign believes that the establishment\u2019s setting Rubio up to step in to Jeb\u2019s position if Jeb doesn\u2019t make it. The next bite, we have a question here. It was during a Q&A and he said this about Obama\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Our country has no spirit. Our country has no gravitas. Our country doesn\u2019t feel good about itself. And the primary reason is we have no victories. As an example, this horrible deal that we signed with Iran where we\u2019re giving $150 billion and we lose everything. We lose everything. It\u2019s a laughingstock of a deal. We have no victories. We need some pomp and circumstance. We need spirit. We need a cheerleader. I thought… Seven years ago when Obama got elected the one thing I thought that he would be a great cheerleader for the country; he\u2019s not. He\u2019s been a great divider for the country. He\u2019s been one of the great dividers of all time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think that doesn\u2019t resonate with people that hear that? Every word of that has people — if not for real, euphemistically — standing up and cheering. We don\u2019t have any victories. Look, we just had the World Series. The Kansas City Royals just won the World Series for the first time in 30 years, and only the second time. Big parade in Kansas City today. You know what it means. Whenever you\u2019re part of a team — and a lot of people never get to experience this. Most people will never know what it feels like. <\/p>\n

They can only imagine. To be on a championship team — be it the Super Bowl, be it the World Series, be it the Stanley Cup, be it something in college or even high school — it\u2019s so rare. But, boy, if you\u2019re a fan of that team, you feel like you\u2019re on it just the same, and you get just as big a thrill, maybe bigger than some of the players get. But it is a high. It is almost euphoric, this winning. And he\u2019s right! We\u2019re not winning anything. We\u2019re taking it on the chin no matter where you look. We\u2019re taking it on the chin on our own border. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re taking it on the chin against terrorism. We are losing our culture. We are losing institution after institution that made and defined this country\u2019s greatness. All of these things are under constant attack. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re rotting away or withering away. We are losing contests for them! There are people inside and outside this country who detest America, who detest American culture, who detest the founding, and they are hell-bent to change it and reform if and transform it — and they\u2019re winning! And people opposed to that having no to cheer for. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party hasn\u2019t given \u2019em anything to cheer for. The Republican Party has misled them and lied to them and fooled them. There is no apparent opposition to any of this. And here comes Trump. And not even some of the Republican presidential candidates will stand up to what\u2019s happening. The farthest they\u2019ll go is to admit, “There\u2019s problems and we need to fix them and I\u2019m the guy that can do it and I can make it better.” But nobody besides Trump is actually identifying them.<\/p>\n

Well, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is. More and more, people starting to think the dark horse out there that everybody actually does need to keep their eye on, because Ted Cruz would implement everything Donald Trump is talking about here, to one degree or another. But the facts that he\u2019s right that we don\u2019t have any winners. We\u2019re not cheering anything. We\u2019re being made to feel guilty for America, we\u2019re being made to apologize for America, and it\u2019s coming from the top. It is Obama who is leading the decline and seemingly happily. <\/line><\/p>\n

It is Obama who says that he\u2019s the guy to manage it. The Democrat Party is telling everybody, “This is a new reality here. This is the new normal, and you the better get used to it. The old days of American prominence? Those were artificial. We didn\u2019t deserve those days! Those were phony. We didn\u2019t really have that kind of prosperity. It was an illusion because we\u2019d stolen all this from everybody around the world, and now the rest of the world wants back what we\u2019ve stolen and by God, we\u2019re gonna give it to \u2019em!<\/p>\n

“And if Iran wants nuclear weapons, who are we to say they can\u2019t? There\u2019s no difference in us and them. I\u2019m sure they think they\u2019re exceptional too just like we do.” That\u2019s what Obama will say in explaining the deal to Iran, and it\u2019s what everybody talks about on the Democrat side when it comes illegal immigration. It\u2019s almost as though the illegals and the immigrants have more weight about what this country does and what happens to this country than citizens do! I mean, this is one of the things that really, really gnaws at people.<\/p>\n

When you look at the Democrat Party and the whole Republican political establishment bending over backwards not to anger the illegals — to cater to, to pander to the illegals. Meanwhile, the illegals are not the ones that get to say what happens in this country; citizens are! But the citizens are being ignored. It\u2019s worse than that. The citizens are not being ignored per se; the citizens are being purposely told to shut up, that we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re talking about, and that we are the reason this is all happening, because we have participated in all these behaviors that equaled American guilt. <\/p>\n

So when Trump stands up and says, “Our country has no spirit,” he\u2019s exactly right. Look, we have little pizzerias and bakery shops and so forth. The media and the Democrat Party target them for destruction to close \u2019em down, to shut \u2019em down, and accuse them of homophobia, bigotry and all this kind of stuff. There\u2019s nothing to cheer out there. And then Trump comes along and people end up cheering him as he details some of these problems. An unidentified reporter asked the question, “Do you think it\u2019s time for some of the other Republican candidates to drop out of the race?”<\/line><\/p>\n

TRUMP: Look, if a person\u2019s been campaigning for four or five months and they\u2019re at zero or one or two percent, they should get out. Walker did a good thing. I think the way Walker… He saw it wasn\u2019t happening, it wasn\u2019t gonna happen, and he just got out. Quickly. You know, he was favored, don\u2019t forget. You know, that was before Trump was gonna happen. Right? But he was favored for a period of time. He was favored, Walker. Governor Walker. They thought he was gonna win. What happened is, he got out. I think the way he got out was great. I think he did a really smart thing for himself. And, frankly, other people should get out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we have to get out. It\u2019s time for an obscene profit break. We\u2019ll do that and be right back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the Donald Trump press conference today to launch his new book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again. The whole thing was a Q&A, or the vast majority of it was. It was not like a Trump campaign appearance. It was similar. A Trump campaign appearance, he goes up, like the Rush to Excellence Tour, except he uses a podium and I didn\u2019t, most of the time. But still, he\u2019s up there, hour, hour and a half, maybe hour 45 minutes just doing stream of consciousness stand-up, and you never know where it\u2019s gonna go. <\/p>\n

This was like his announcement appearance, which was primarily questions. He did this opening statement and then questions from the media came. And that interplay which he clearly loves, and he spots when the press is trying to trip him up and he throws it right back in their face. I\u2019m telling you, these are the kinds of appearances if the other candidates could do this, it would help them. <\/p>\n

Now, a lot of them are gonna reject the concept here \u2019cause they think this is too entertainer-like. It\u2019s not serious. It isn\u2019t somber. It doesn\u2019t reflect the seriousness of the times, flippancy and so forth is not what\u2019s called for. But Trump is able to pull these things off. He\u2019s able to combine, like on this program, seriousness and irreverence and humor at the same time all in one presentation with credibility all around. And people eat it up. And that\u2019s why, you know, I\u2019ve had people tell me that they thought Trump, in every one of these debates, has been disappointing, based on their expectations. <\/p>\n

Expectations come from these kinds of appearances. They get to the debates, he\u2019s one of 15 or 10 up there, gets eight minutes. There are flashes of this, but Trump\u2019s a one-man show. And I\u2019ve actually had people say, especially after that first debate, I can\u2019t tell you the number of people, some supporters of Trump, some not, who thought that he was dead after that first debate. The way he answered the Megyn Kelly question, the way he dealt with it, they thought he was dead meat like everybody else did. And I had to tell \u2019em, nope, nope. He scores so many points in his announcement appearance, it\u2019s gonna take a whole lot of debates like this to get anywhere near countering that. And that\u2019s what I think this appearance was, too. And if a number of people end up seeing it, you\u2019ll be able to tell, it will be reflected in polling. He went back to the issue in the next bite, immigration, that put him on the map.<\/p>\n