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RUSH: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump. I got an e-mail over the weekend. I get lots of e-mails. I read an e-mail over the weekend. “Rush, do you realize your show has become nothing but three hours of Trump and Hillary?” Well, that\u2019s what\u2019s in the news. Of course, that characterization is not entirely correct. This program\u2019s discussed a lot other than that. For example, when I discussed Deflategate, I heard about that from the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. <\/p>\n

But Trump and Hillary big in the news today. And in Hillary\u2019s case, how many do-overs does the woman get? Here\u2019s the headline at the Washington Post. “After a Wilting Summer, Clinton Hopes for a Fall Rebound<\/a>.” Do you realize this is gonna be the third or fourth restart for her campaign? I think everybody\u2019s pretty clear who she is, and everybody knows how she behaves. The real news in the Hillary campaign is the very public appearances of Plugs Biden over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Now Plugs, in a couple of polls, has already moved past Bernie Sanders — and Rupert Murdoch apparently tweeted out, “Hey, Biden looks like he\u2019s gonna get the nomination. Biden is gonna be tough to beat.” That\u2019s Rupert Murdoch tweeting. So the question is: What is all of this? ‘Cause I still don\u2019t… I mean, at this stage, I don\u2019t see anybody but Hillary. I just don\u2019t. I\u2019m not sure what this Biden thing is beyond dipping toes in the water, if it\u2019s strategic, if it\u2019s genuine. <\/p>\n

With the Democrat Party, you don\u2019t really know. Then Richard Trumka is out there talking about how his organized labor guys love Trump. You know why they love Trump? ‘Cause Trump\u2019s out there attacking trade deals. Trump\u2019s out there attacking the ChiComs and all these other people that are exporting to us. They\u2019re not importing anything from us. Trumka says that Trump\u2019s buds like it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Oh, speaking of Trump. Now, this got me to thinking over the weekend. Did you see the poll? It was SurveyUSA<\/a>, I think. Trump\u2019s got 25% of the African-American vote right now, so 25% of his support is African-American. Did you see that? Now, at this stage, a lot of people say, “Come on, Rush! It\u2019s too soon. It doesn\u2019t mean anything. Even you have told us all of these years that polls this far out really can\u2019t be counted on to give long-term forecasting of what\u2019s gonna happen.” <\/p>\n

Maybe so. That\u2019s probably true, and I would probably hold firm to that. But still, when\u2019s the last time you heard of anybody other than a Democrat getting 25% of the black vote anything, an election, a poll, bake sale, whatever it is? When\u2019s the last time you ever heard of it? So let\u2019s pretend for a moment — just for a second — that it\u2019s real. Let\u2019s say the poll is accurate, they got it right, and 25% of African-Americans support Trump. Why would that be? <\/p>\n

Everybody out trying to portray Trump as a racist \u2019cause of this Mexican stuff. They\u2019re trying to portray him as bigot because of this Mexican immigration stuff. Why\u2019s got 25% of black support? (interruption) Well, you\u2019re missing it, Snerdley. It\u2019s a good guess. It\u2019s a good guess. Snerdley said, “Because he wants a strong economy, \u2019cause he\u2019s right on immigration. African-Americans want the same things.” Well, there\u2019s a difference. <\/p>\n

The guy is a Republican. It doesn\u2019t matter what they stand for. Just because they\u2019re a Republican, they\u2019re disqualified. You can\u2019t, if you\u2019re an African-American… (interruption) Well, why is he not perceived as a typical Republican? If he\u2019s not perceived as a typical Republican… You don\u2019t have to be typical, untypical, atypical, sort of typical. All you have to have is that (R) by your name and you are automatically disqualified. <\/p>\n

In 90% of the African-American vote, all you need is that letter: (R). That\u2019s all. That disqualifies you. You are everything evil that there is in the world. You\u2019re a racist slave master, bigot, sexist, homophobe, all of that. No matter what kind of Republican you are. So why is Trump — and he\u2019s not a Democrat, either. You want to say he\u2019s not your average Republican. He\u2019s not a Democrat. <\/line><\/p>\n

(interruption) Well, now you\u2019re getting a little warmer. Now you\u2019re getting a little closer. The answer to this… When I saw that 25% of the African-Americans in this poll support Trump, I was taken back to what I had heard was the establishment Republican theory on how Trump was eventually going to fade away and die out or be beaten, and it reminded me of a couple things. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: In other political polling data: “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head…” This is SurveyUSA. The poll came out over the weekend, and it rocked everybody. It\u2019s the first time it\u2019s happened: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head. Trump beats Bernie Sanders. Trump beats Joe Biden. Trump beats Algore. <\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s surge past Clinton marks a dramatic turnaround in the polls. A CNN\/ORC sampling of national voters in late June — just days after Trump entered the race — found that 59% supported Clinton to 34% picking Trump in a head-to-head race.” It doesn\u2019t matter if you look at it approval-disapproval or the straight head-up polling, Trump has performed an amazing 180 in record time. We spoke last week. Back in May, Trump\u2019s favorables were 29%, unfavorables 62%. <\/line><\/p>\n

Today, they\u2019re just the exact opposite. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re either 59% to 62% approve and in the high twenties disapprove. That is major image makeover. That is dramatic. Everybody in polling says, “You just can\u2019t do that! You can\u2019t change your public perception that fast. It\u2019s not possible! It takes years, and it takes a series of glowing articles — I mean, sycophantic suck-up stories year after year — before somebody\u2019s public image changes for the better. You can lose it overnight, but rebuilding like this? It doesn\u2019t happen.” <\/p>\n

So it then leads to, okay, how is it that Trump in this SurveyUSA poll (I think it\u2019s SurveyUSA) is getting 25% of the African-American vote? Snerdley, what did you say your theory is? It was that he\u2019s a celebrity? Is that what your explanation for why Trump\u2019s got 25% of the African-American vote? (interruption) That\u2019s pretty close. You know the Republican theory on Trump was that his name recognition was 100%.<\/p>\n

He had nowhere to go except down. “People already know him, and they know what they think of him, and so the other candidates have a long way to go to get their name recognition up and their public image of Trump. All they can do is fade.” Except that\u2019s not happening. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, back to Trump and the 25% of the black vote. The Republican theory, the establishment theory is that Trump has only one way to go when it comes to name recognition and public image, and that\u2019s down. Since he\u2019s got 100 percent name recognition then people have already formed their opinions of him. <\/p>\n

So they think that he\u2019s just going to eventually fade away as the other candidates start spending money to let people know they exist, get their names out there, that Trump will eventually fade away. This is the consultant class favored theory to explain Trump. All of it went out the window when they saw this massive reversal from unfavorable to favorable, from May to the present, Trump, then 25% of the Hispanic — by the way, 30% of the Hispanic vote on the same poll where Trump was getting 25% of the African-American vote. <\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s look at Trump maybe a different way. Politics, I\u2019ve always said, is show biz for the ugly. You know the White House Correspondents Dinner. That is the political equivalent of the Oscars. There big soiree of the year. But look at what has to happen for that party to have any glitter at all. They have to import real celebrities because political celebrities are not really celebrities. They might think they are, and there are a few who are exceptions, like Bill Clinton. But even at that, you wouldn\u2019t put Clinton in the A-list in the same way that a movie or TV celebrity is a star. <\/p>\n

Now, how do most people know Donald Trump? They know him through a bunch of things, but primarily through a television show. Actually two TV shows, The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice. And what happens on those shows? Have you ever watched \u2019em? You haven\u2019t? Well, of course the “you\u2019re fired” slogan is the one. But on those shows Donald Trump\u2019s the boss. There are people of all races on those shows, contestants, people of all genders, orientations, ethnicity, nationality. They\u2019re all treated the same. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re all treated with respect. They\u2019re all treated as they are, winners or losers, and if they\u2019re losers, Trump tells \u2019em they\u2019re losers. He gives everybody a shot though. There\u2019s no favoritism. There\u2019s no special treatment. He is the commanding presence. He is perceived as the expert in everything and anything that comes up for discussion on either of those shows. He\u2019s seen as likable. He\u2019s seen as fair. There is no racism on that show. There is no bigotry. There is no homophobia or any of that. And it is also what? Reality TV. It\u2019s not scripted. Although it is. But it\u2019s not perceived as scripted. It\u2019s perceived as real. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m telling you that millions and millions and millions more people have seen Trump on those two shows than have ever seen The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. Millions, millions more. So you have that. That\u2019s people\u2019s real-life experience with <\/line>Trump, watching him on TV. Which is a big deal. People think TV\u2019s a big deal. It makes you a star being on TV. So here comes whoever it is in the media or in the party over here saying Trump\u2019s a racist or a bigot \u2019cause of what he said about the Mexicans or that. <\/line><\/p>\n

But that conflicts with what the people who\u2019ve watched him on TV have seen. And they haven\u2019t seen any of that. They haven\u2019t seen any bigotry. They haven\u2019t seen any mean-spiritedness. They haven\u2019t seen any extremism. They\u2019ve just seen a very successful, funny guy dead-serious about people succeeding. And if they don\u2019t, they are gone. They are there to make him look good, and it\u2019s his job to get the best to do what has to be done and if they don\u2019t qualify, they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter if he knows them or not. There\u2019s no favoritism; there\u2019s no special treatment. Everybody\u2019s treated the same. In fact, who was one of the biggest stars to come out of those TV shows? A black woman named Omarosa Stallworth, who is still a recognizable celebrity. I think she\u2019s got a cameo-type appearance still on one of those shows. So the whole Republican establishment theory about what\u2019s gonna take Trump out is maybe challenged a little bit by the reality of how it is that he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a name recognition of 100%.<\/p>\n

His favorabilities now have moved up to the sixties.<\/p>\n

The people that were being polled back in May, unfavorable-favorability, may have been strictly people that make judgments based on politics and so forth. But whatever. There\u2019s been a dramatic shift in Trump\u2019s favorable and unfavorable numbers, and he\u2019s doing things that candidates on the Republican side haven\u2019t shown in polls or elections in decades. So you can either say, “Well, it doesn\u2019t mean anything. It doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s so early. It\u2019s just people having fun. Nobody\u2019s taking Trump seriously. Like Schwarzenegger, Rush! It isn\u2019t gonna matter. In fact, if he wins it\u2019s gonna be disaster, blah, blah.”<\/p>\n

Or you can say it\u2019s real and start asking why. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: To the phones, and we are gonna start Toledo, Ohio. This is Norm. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m great, sir. Thank you for asking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Man, it\u2019s just such an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I understand. I appreciate that very, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t even actually think I\u2019d be this soon, to tell you the truth anyway.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it happened. You need to make it count.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The thing I wanted to talk to you about today is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The thing that I just don\u2019t think the people understand is that they just don\u2019t get it. The columnists, the writers, the talking heads — all these people that think they know politics and tradition and how it\u2019s done and all this other stuff — I just don\u2019t think that they understand that the people that support Donald Trump, they want John Wayne in the office. An American. A man\u2019s man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I have a really… It\u2019s a long piece. It\u2019s a good piece here by a website called The Conservative Treehouse, no doubt inspired by me. Well, most of the conservatism in the media is inspired by me. I mean, there wasn\u2019t any of it \u2019til I came along.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, it is what it is. The Conservative Treehouse: “An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg — RE: The GOP and Donald Trump<\/a>.” Jonah Goldberg at National Review wrote a piece recently saying if Trump\u2019s conservatism, count me out. I\u2019m not conservative. And these guys are responding to it. It\u2019s actually quite good. I\u2019ll share it with you got more time in the next hour. Let me ask you a question. Another guy, Ben Shapiro — who is a young conservative columnist admittedly inspired by me — says he likes Trump.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s a little frightened because he sees parallels to this and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the sense that Schwarzenegger goes on TV one night, the Jay Leno Tonight Show, and all of a sudden the next thing he knows he\u2019s the governor of California. He\u2019s a candidate, and everybody\u2019s going, “My God, exactly what we need!” It\u2019s exactly what you said: John Wayne, tough guy, no nonsense. Well, what happened? <\/p>\n

Well, Schwarzenegger ended up hurting the Republican Party and conservatism, if you like, to the point now that the left and the Democrat Party literally own the state of California. According to Ben Shapiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger was an abject, total disaster \u2019cause he really wasn\u2019t a conservative, and it mattered. <\/line><\/p>\n

He really wasn\u2019t, and when he got into office it was too easy. Warren Buffett was able to bully him out of it and a bunch of other people were able to bully him, and it became just whatever the Republican Party of today is: “Like me! Love me!” whatever it takes. Do you have that…? Do you see any kind of similarity to that and what Trump is and could be?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not today. That was then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was then; this is now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is now, because I want to tell you something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Trump is not Schwarzenegger.” That\u2019s what you\u2019re going to say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, and this country… You know what I love about him is that he says what he says and he means what he says, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question. Look, I have to be rude and interrupt because of time. I gotta go. I really do. We\u2019re out of time. I don\u2019t mean to be rude. I really wasn\u2019t being rude. I had to do it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Henry in Findlay, Ohio, you\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you here on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Earlier I was wondering if you could provide some analysis and comment. Earlier you were talking about the drastic turnaround in the Trump polls, on how he\u2019s continuing to surge and all. And what did it for them was last week when Jeb Bush decided to get into it with him, and he was speaking to a group on TV in Spanish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Trump came back and said, “In America, would you mind speaking English?” Something to that effect.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s what pretty much put my feet in concrete. You\u2019ve been right all along about this. They don\u2019t get it; they don\u2019t understand. We\u2019re dumb out here, but we\u2019re also very angry. And Mr. Trump has found a way to tap into that and put a voice to it, and I was wondering if you could provide some analysis here for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the interesting thing about the Trump image turnaround is that it\u2019s from May to the present, and in May… These are political polls. Now, somebody help me. Had Trump announced in May? (interruption) He hadn\u2019t announced in May, right? So he had favorable… It was in the mix. It was thought that he might. He was toying with it, but he had not come down the escalator at Trump Tower and launched his announcement speech.<\/p>\n

So before Trump had ever made a political speech… It was June 16th. Long before Trump had made a political speech of any kind, the only news about Trump was that he\u2019s thinking about running and people were laughing at him and joking about him and calling him a TV star and an egomaniac and so forth. So the disapprovals versus approvals were 29% approve, 60-some-odd percent disapprove. Those were numbers basically made by the media. Now, people were watching his TV shows like The Apprentice.<\/line><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t attach a political element to Trump while watching the show. That connection just wasn\u2019t made. Just watching a television show. Trump\u2019s a figure. He\u2019s a celebrity. He\u2019s likable, he\u2019s funny, and he\u2019s perceived to be all those things. But then the media starts talking about him as a potential political candidate, starts mocking at him, laughing at him, making fun of him. And the pollsters start calling people and people think:<\/p>\n

“Maybe the smart thing to say here is that Trump\u2019s a jerk and I don\u2019t like him,” but then all of that changes when Trump announces. On June 16th, it\u2019s all over. At that point, everything changes. Now Trump is defining himself; the media isn\u2019t. While Trump is defining himself, don\u2019t forget, the media is saying every time he says something. “That\u2019s it! He\u2019s stepped in it. That\u2019s the end. It\u2019s over for Trump; he doesn\u2019t know it. Nobody can survive a stupid statement like that.”<\/p>\n

Trump expands his support every time he makes a statement the media or establishment thinks is gonna doom him. So Trump\u2019s favorable-unfavorable turnaround is due exclusively to Trump. And being on TV a lot. But don\u2019t forget, there\u2019s a foundation for the positive approval numbers. It\u2019s my contention that his TV shows, The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, mean a lot in this. <\/p>\n

People watch television. They love reality TV. It\u2019s not scripted, not a drama. This is real TV. This is Trump with real people, and they\u2019re seeking jobs with him and projects to accomplish and he\u2019s assessing them. And as they watch the show, they see a funny guy, a fair guy. They don\u2019t see a racist. They don\u2019t see a bigot. They don\u2019t see a homophobe. They don\u2019t see any of these things that people normally associate with the Republican brand. <\/p>\n

And now you add to that Trump\u2019s comments on immigration and who\u2019s emigrating and why, and then his comments on McCain and his comments on the economy, and it all makes sense that his approval numbers would do a rapid turnaround, based on the media attention, the foundation he has from his TV shows, and the fact that people in this country are fed up (a lot of people are) with the establishment and everybody in it. <\/p>\n

The establishment consists of the media. It consists of the Republican Party and the Democrat Party and the inside-the-Beltway New York power corridor. Anybody perceived to be in that people are fed up with. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re listened to. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re respected. They\u2019re laughed at, made fun of, they\u2019re not taken seriously. The elites, the ruling class, whatever, are perceived to be insensitive and uncaring about the plight of normal, everyday life and people in this country. Here comes Trump, it makes perfect sense. <\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a piece I referenced earlier. The Conservative Treehouse. They published this on September 7th, so it was yesterday. “An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg — RE: The GOP and Donald Trump.” It prints out here on my printer to about four pages. What happened is Jonah Goldberg at National Review and a syndicated columnist who appears in, among other papers, the Los Angeles Times, wrote a piece and basically said if Trump is conservative, then I\u2019m out. If Trump is the new conservatism, then I\u2019m not conservative, want no part of it, Trump isn\u2019t a conservative.<\/p>\n

It was another one of these pieces written by conservative media people claiming that Trump is a disaster and portends disaster because he is causing people to abandon their conservative principles in order to support him. It is deathly bad for conservatism and please don\u2019t do it, Trump\u2019s a fraud, don\u2019t fall for it. <\/p>\n

Now, I have explained my own analysis of this, and I spent a lot of time on it a couple of days last week, and I don\u2019t want to recap it here. Well, I don\u2019t want to go through it in great detail here again, but it can basically be summed up this way. Okay, you guys — this is what Trump supporters are saying — you guys that claim to be the conservative leaders in the media and Republican leaders in Washington, what have you done for us? You\u2019ve got all your conservative theory and you have your conservative principles, but where are they? What are you doing besides writing them? What are you doing besides espousing them on TV? We don\u2019t see \u2019em being implemented. We see a lot of candidates promising they are going to, but then they get elected based on a promise and they get to Washington and we don\u2019t see it. <\/p>\n

Your average Trump supporter is saying conservative conshmervative. You guys may be brilliant writing about it, and you might be the smartest guy in the room on conservative theory, but we don\u2019t see any of it being implemented. Where is it? Along comes Trump. And Trump represents what all of his supporters think conservatism has been about. All of Trump\u2019s supporters believe that Republicans and conservatives understand that they are supposed to stop Obama and stop the Democrats and beat them. And they\u2019re not seeing that. They\u2019re not seeing anybody stopping Obama. They\u2019re not seeing anybody defeat Obama. They\u2019re not even seeing anybody try. <\/line><\/p>\n

So they\u2019re saying, “What good is all this conservatism if it just is words? If all anybody\u2019s gonna do is think about it and talk about it and argue about this principle or that principle, what the hell good is it? There\u2019s a real world out here, and we\u2019re being overrun by Obama and the Democrats.” Up comes Trump saying he\u2019ll stop it. It\u2019s not hard to understand this, folks. But I will share with you some pull quotes from the Conservative Treehouse piece, \u2019cause it\u2019s really good. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Conservative Treehouse. The Jonah Goldberg piece, if I\u2019m remembering the right one, essentially is that all of you Trumpsters are having a temporary little temper tantrum, and you\u2019re gonna come to your senses at some point. This is just your summer of discontent, and you\u2019re all gonna get behind Jeb at some point. But this discontent has Jonah and a lot of people bothered because it has great potential to destroy conservatism. And then these guys like Jonah and others have written pieces on what they\u2019re worried that Trump might do, how they can destroy this or harm that. <\/p>\n

Well, from the Conservative Treehouse guys, a list of things here, questions, actually. <\/p>\n

“Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO.<\/p>\n

Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO.<\/p>\n

Who gave us the TSA? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who created the precursor of ‘Common Core\u2019 in ‘Race To the Top\u2019? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Marco Rubio? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Rand Paul? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Ted Cruz? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Mike Lee? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Jim DeMint? The GOP<\/p>\n

Who worked against Ronald Reagan? The GOP”<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re asking here, you want to talk about damage that Trump will do? You\u2019re worried about the damage Trump will do? What about the damage you have done and are doing? And you wonder why people are frustrated and desperate for a person who can articulate some kind of push back, which is what Trump is doing. Conservative Treehouse, published yesterday, open letter to Jonah Goldberg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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