Rush Limbaugh: The Establishment Shifts to Trump? "Think they will be able to go to Trump and m
Rush Limbaugh via Facebook
January 21, 2016
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RUSH: Yesterday on this program we had a caller who said -- and I don't think he was joking. I don't even think he was half joking. I think this caller was serious. He said (paraphrasing), "You know, the Republican establishment's really missing the boat here. If they really hate Trump, and if they really want to get rid of Trump, they should all come out and endorse him. And if they did that then half the Trump supporters out there, since they hate the establishment, would think something's up and maybe abandon Trump and go to Cruz or something."
And, lo and behold, we wake up today to the news -- well, maybe some of you saw it last night. I was still working on my battery problem. I was. I was working on the battery, and I isolated it. I know what it is. I'm unable to fix it because I don't run iCloud. But, anyway, I isolated it, I figured out the problem. I haven't isolated the exact -- but I know what the problem is. So it may have been news last night, but Bob Dole has come out and said (paraphrasing), "Oh, yeah, Donald Trump, far, far, far more preferable than Ted Cruz."
And then I have a story here in the Stack of Stuff about all of the donors that are warming up to Trump. From TheHill.com: "Republican donors are quietly coming around to the idea that Donald Trump could be their party’s nominee for president.
While many major Republican donors still cannot abide the idea of Trump as their party’s 2016 standard-bearer -- and some remain flat-out in denial about the strength of his candidacy -- interviews with GOP business owners and CEOs in six states suggest shifting attitudes toward the controversial billionaire.
"Trump has to date rejected financial support from wealthy donors, saying he does not want to owe them if he gets into office. But winning the acceptance -- or even the favor -- of donors could prevent a big-money assault against Trump and ultimately benefit him in a multi-billion dollar general election." I don't know if Trump said he wouldn't accept any money in a general election. I don't know. He might have only meant the primaries when he said he wasn't gonna take any money. Who knows. But it is kind of coincidental, the timing.
All of a sudden these establishment types come out for Trump. And what it really signifies is their hatred for Ted Cruz. Folks, it's the most incredible thing to sit here and watch all of this. They literally despise Ted Cruz. They are beside themselves with hatred for Ted Cruz that goes beyond the rational. Except it is rational if you understand the establishment's absolute hatred and distaste for conservatism. These people are out there, some of them are actually saying that they would actively, publicly support and vote for Hillary Clinton over Ted Cruz. Other elected Republicans are saying so, Republican consultants, typical establishment members, even some donors.
And make no mistake. If there is an establishment shift here to Trump, it is to cut Cruz off at the pass. They clearly think that they could make deals with Trump. If they look down the road and they see Trump as president, they think they'll be able to go to Trump and make deals and agree with the Democrats and come up with compromises and so forth. But they are aware that no such deal-making that damages the country will occur with Ted Cruz. And so they are telegraphing their fears, letting it be known exactly where they come down on all this.
So Bob Dole was dragged out of there, from wherever he was: Trump would be a better nominee than Cruz. It's fascinating to watch this stuff. It really is. I sit around, I marvel, I look at this, I try to keep track of it all and have it make sense. And that's what we do here, analyze all this and explain it to you.
There was a shock poll result that came out of New Hampshire yesterday. This was after the program, I got home, and I'm in the midst of isolating and tracking down my battery life problem. And it's on every device, by the way, it's every iPhone and every iPad. I took a break from it, went back to working the program today, and I get this headline: "For John Kasich, a New Wind in New Hampshire."
The story is out of the Cincinnati Enquirer, but basically it's the Real Clear Politics rolling averages poll, Kasich is in second place in New Hampshire. He's 20 points behind Trump, it's like 32 to 12, and then Cruz is at 11. And everybody is saying, "What happened here? How in the world did this happen? Kasich?" So it was just a minor blip that caused people to scratch their heads just a little bit and to realize that none of this means anything now, maybe even not for a fundraiser, get right down to it. Doesn't mean anything 'til the actual votes come in.
North Carolina, Donald Trump is adding to his lead there, at 38% and has the highest favorability. North Carolina was the first place that polling ever found Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential race. He just keeps getting stronger there. This is from Public Policy Polling, the liberal bunch headquartered in North Carolina. Their latest numbers have Trump at 38, 16% for Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio is at 11, Ben Carson's at eight, Mike Huckabee and Jeb at 6% each, Chris Christie at 4%, and then the others -- John Kasich, for example, North Carolina is at 2%, after coming in 12% second place in New Hampshire. Trump is up five points over where he was a month ago.
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