Had you listened as well? It’s hard to tell from the transcripts.
Yes, I heard her. She didn’t sound all that bright to me—Rush does tend to flatter young people who call, in my opinion, but maybe I’m being too demanding.
The remark that “it’s all about me” seemed jarring, but I interpreted it as being the sort of thing that comes out sounding worse than it’s meant. I (charitably?) interpreted it as meaning that the girl justly perceived that the election will turn on persuading people like her, people who are undecided and are looking for leadership.
She did not sound whiny to me, and as the mother of two teens I’m sensitive to whining. ;-) She seemed like a kid who had had a very tough row to hoe and was putting her life together, but was also frightened about the future and about the debt she was racking up. She is clearly working very hard. I was left wishing that Rush had urged her to change her major to something more lucrative than art history and political science. She sounds like she’s fighting a tiring battle to keep an open and free mind when surrounded by all the leftists on campus. That’s a hard thing to do.