Posted on 11/23/2015 1:30:37 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Now, let's look at some of the headlines here in the Trump Stack because it's recent history repeating itself. How many times in the course of this campaign since Trump has announced have the Drive-By Media and the Republican establishment believed that they had him? I can't count the number of times Trump has said something or done something that media and the Republican Party have salivated. "That's it," they say, "that's it, he just stepped in it. No recovery from this," and yet he just keeps climbing. And he's continuing to climb in the polls, and that's what this Stack is basically about.
From TheHill.com: "GOP Fears Trump's Muslim Comments Could Hurt -- Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have helped him with GOP primary voters, according to most polls. But Republican insiders are concerned that his words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience."
This is stunning. Can I read that to you again? "Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have helped him with GOP primary voters," which is what this is all about right now. We are in the middle of the GOP primary. This is where soon the Hawkeye Cauci and New Hampshire primary will happen. The first votes will be cast on the way to selecting the Republican nominee. Fine. Despite the fact that Trump's rhetoric is helping him with Republican primary voters, which ought to send a message to Republican leaders about how to do this, they instead are telling people like The Hill and Politico, they are leaking that they are concerned that Trump's words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience, not realizing that that's what Trump is achieving, is the broader audience.
Have you taken a look at Trump's demographics, the demographics of his group of voters? We looked at this last week. One of the biggest blocks of support Trump is getting is from blue-collar voters. Now, those are traditionally thought of as union workers, hourly wage workers, Democrats, blue collar. I think there's a new definition we need to attach here to blue-collar, and that is "taxpayers." But the Republican base is never, ever described as blue-collar, and yet here's Trump, you talk about broadening the base, appealing to a broader audience, that is what Trump is doing. And the Republican establishment is wringing its hands, worried silly over this.
"In recent days, Trump has suggested that the United States could have 'no choice' but to close mosques. Even more controversially, he told an NBC News reporter he would 'certainly' implement a system to register and track Muslims," no, he didn't. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time again refuting this because I spent the first hour on Friday refuting this, but this story is out. It's not working. It's backfiring on the media. These attempts to impugn Trump by lying about what he says and by lying about what he thinks, which is no different than what they've done about every other Republican, it's backfiring on them. These efforts to harm Trump are not succeeding. His poll numbers are up. The energy behind his support is up. He's drawing huge crowds.
Is anybody else drawing big crowds out there? Have you seen anybody out there as often as Trump is? I mean, there's no mystery why this is happening. Trump is out there all the time, and he's good at this, and he's obviously enjoying it, and he's having fun. And the media is distrusted. There's a poll out today, 63% of the people in this country blame the media for an overall negative attitude about America and its future.
And Trump, whether he's trying to or not is playing into that and bouncing right off of it. So all of these efforts, these traditional media tricks of taking people out of context or accusing them of saying something they didn't say, which is what's happening in this case -- this is the great service that Trump is performing here. It's a point that I made yesterday. He's demonstrating you don't have to be afraid of the media if you're Republican. And you don't have to be afraid to violate political correctness. You don't have to fear being aggressive. You don't have to fear disagreeing with the president or with the Democrat Party or with the media. You can triumph doing so. That's a great service he's performing.
One of the reasons I was so excited about his entry into the race early on, I was hoping it would inspire similar courage throughout the Republican field. And it may yet because the best efforts of the media to take Trump out are gonna fail as they are continuing to fail now. And the reason is they didn't make him. I know it's redundant saying this, folks, but it happens to be true. The media can't take you out if they didn't make you. But if you let the media make you, if you let the media be responsible for your being popular or well known or liked or whatever, they can change that on a dime. But if all that is because it's real and you've engendered it yourself because of a connection you have with people, they can't break that bond, and they're gonna spend the rest of this campaign trying to, to prove to themselves they can.
And as they try to break this bond that Trump has with his voters they're gonna make fools of themselves even more and more, as they are now doing. He did not tell an NBC News reporter he would implement a system to register and track Muslims. He was talking about the border and how he would build a fence and how he would keep them out. Now, The Hill says, "It was unclear whether he is referring to new immigrants or all Muslims on American." He was referring to Hispanics and others coming across the Southern border. He wasn't even talking about ISIS or Muslim in that. That's how bastardized this whole report is.
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RUSH: Ed Rollins, GOP strategist, he worked for Huckabee in 2008 and Michele Bachmann in 2012. He suggested here that Trump's candidacy from the beginning has posed problems because there's a lot of danger, some of the things that Trump has said for a party that needs to reach out to Hispanics. You know, this is unfathomable, in a way. I mean, Trump is broadening the Republican base. In fact, if I were the Republican Party, I'd be scratching my head over that. If you look at the makeup of Trump's support, it's not primarily Republican primary voters. There are a lot of them in there, but there are a lot of independents that make up Trump's support, and he's far and away number one in the Republican primary field. He's securing the support of tons of blue-collar people, traditionally Democrat voters. He is broadening the base.
By the way, it's not Trump who said I'm gonna win despite the base. Republican establishment candidates have had it as their objective to win despite the base, by getting a nomination without winning the primary, I think was the terminology. I don't understand any of this. I mean, I understand they don't like us. I understand they don't like conservatives. I understand that they don't want to the GOP to become known as the conservative party, but to stare success in the face and resent it, it's understandable in I guess a human emotion way, but, boy, for people in a business designed to get the support of as many people as you can and a candidate out there showing how it's done and to be mad about it instead of trying to capitalize on it. Even if you don't like the guy, try to get your other candidates you do like emulating this? There's plenty to emulate here. There are plenty of things to learn about gaining support beyond the Republican base and beyond the Republican Party, there's one guy showing how to do it.
Washington Post, Philip Bump, you know they hate writing this: "The Paris Attacks Have Only Made Donald Trump Stronger." As I predicted the day they happened. Well, I was here the Monday after they happened, but on that day I predicted this was gonna happen. So did you. It does not take a genius to understand that Trump's -- particularly if he would double down on terrorism. I remember saying on Monday that if Trump doubles down on terrorism like he is on immigration, then nobody's gonna be able to touch him. Latest ABC News/Washington Post poll: Trump leads among most demographic groups.
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Agreed. It’s bizarre.
“All I know is that a number of the Cruz Supporters have no integrity at all.”
Ain’t that worth repeating.
Thank God America is awakening.
He sure is.
Thanks Trisham.
Always. :)
= :^)
I aim to give you your dollar's worth...
Thank you.
“:^)
Rest assured Trump wins without your vote or support. Stay at home when voting day comes for president. Your support is not needed.
Go Trump!
Trump will do what the current empty suit occupying the White House will not do. He will protect America and Americans!
Trump will win the Primary Republican election. Period.
It’s not a matter of “if” but when and how heinous will it be.
I am taking bets that it’s a Beslan type of massacre on steroids
But cut off your nose to spite yourself, little dog in the manger n00b; he'll win without your vote!
Agreed
It makes sense that the dishonorable GOPe would pay some people to become fake Cruz supporters and go ugly against Trump, damaging both Trump and Cruz in the process.
Well, makes sense to me. They are desperate like I have never seen them before.
McCain, that sorry wretch didn’t bother them at all.
Trump? “OMG we have to do somehing!”
Who predicted it would hurt him? I saw the opposite.
“Republican insiders are concerned that his words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience.””
Anyone who loves Jihadi refugees isn’t voting Republican anyway.
This is not winning him support from me."
That makes two of us.
I was for Cruz before Trump came along but Trump won me over because he can get elected and he can get the job done.
Even after I was all in for Trump I continued to donate to Cruz because I wanted him for VP. I eventually stopped my donations due to the venom spewed here on a constant basis.
Their arguments aren't rational or the slightest bit informed. Some are just downright rude and obnoxious and others are arrogant "know it alls".
I have yet to see a reasoned argument for why I should not support Trump. All I see are lies and, as you said, attempts of character assassination.
They think they are clever and "oh so intelligent" but they have managed to deprive Cruz of my little donations and probably not just mine.
I’ve spent six months pushing hard to build momentum for Cruz to be the VP on Trump’s ticket.
I’m done with that.
Trump can name someone else.
If Cruz can’t control his clowns any better than this, he’s not the leader I thought he was.
It’s too bad for Cruz but I just can’t do it anymore.
Every time I see or hear Cruz I just think of the Crazy Cruzers here on FR.
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