We All Know What Trump Means When He Says the Election Is Rigged

RUSH: Let me ask you a quick question here, folks. If a Democrat campaign headquarters office, say a Hillary for president campaign office, in a sizable left-wing university town, if it's blown up, you think you'd hear about it? Nothing but that, right? If a Democrat headquarters, a Hillary campaign headquarters had been blown up, do you think the Drive-Bys would be blaming Hillary's rhetoric for it? Kind of doubt that. Do you think that may be all you would be hearing about?

If a Democrat headquarters were blown up, do you think that you would hear anybody say, "Well, you know, Hillary's responsible. She's out there saying all these irresponsible things, the Hillary campaign." No. And then they'd be tracking down every potential Republican suspect starting with Trump and then Trump's family and then Trump's campaign staff and then some of Trump's redneck supporters and some of these whoever, you name it.

They would be devoting every waking moment to finding out if the Tea Party did it, if some conservative madcap group did it, if somebody on the hate crime list did it. And then they would be wringing their hands, and they'd been talking about the threat to democracy posed by all of this. And if Hillary Clinton were claiming that the election were rigged, do you think that they would be investigating her claim?

If Hillary Clinton or Tim Kaine, the eye, or anybody else on the Democrat side were complaining of any aspect of the election being rigged or if they discovered that the media was dramatically in favor of Donald Trump, do you think that they would be talking about it? Damn right they would. And if Hillary were claiming the election were rigged, they would assume it is rigged, and they'd be looking for Republican suspects.

And Obama would be enacting the Justice Department to conduct an investigation, the civil rights division would be impaneled, and they would pull out all the stops to go out and find out who in fact is rigging, and they would find somebody just like the guy that produced the video that caused the uprising in Benghazi. They would find somebody, they would charge somebody, try to put them in jail right now. They would find their family.

They're doing none of that. And yet both of those things have happened, except it was a Republican campaign headquarters, a Trump headquarter office in North Carolina in the same county where you'll find the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and just across the border boundary line from Duke University. You can't find any reference to this outside the so-called conservative media. The Drive-By Media is not concerned with it at all. What they are concerned with is Trump's allegation the election is rigged. They are acting like that this is the greatest threat that our country has faced recently, this unhinged allegation challenging the legitimacy, the authenticity, the sacrosanct nature of our elections, and Trump's out there accusing them of being rigged.

And the Drive-Bys are righteously indignant, they are offended, and they can't get over it. Meanwhile, people are wondering if Julian Assange is alive. Supposedly his connection to the internet has been terminated. I think Julian Assange is alive, but I'm gonna tell you there's a 1% out there that everybody needs to refocus on, and it's been exposed by WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has exposed a vast left-wing conspiracy made up of the Democrat Party, Wall Street, and the media.

That's the top 1% that Americans should worry about, instead of the top 1% of the rich, which is a standard ploy every two years, every election year. The Democrats yank out of their playbook the rich aren't paying their fair share, but the 1%, the top 1% that Americans should worry about as exposed by WikiLeaks, this vast left-wing conspiracy: Democrats, Wall Street, media.

Now, back to this Trump charge the election is rigged. Mr. Snerdley, interrupt for a moment your screening of calls. Let me ask you off the top of your head, what do you think Trump is talking about when he says the election is rigged? What is he talking about? Exactly. He's talking about the media. He's talking about the fact that 95% of the media is stacked against him. He's talking about all the dirty tricks the media are playing, he's talking about that.

Rudy Giuliani's talking about the dead vote. It can't be denied. Dead people vote, and they vote Democrat. They did it for JFK in Illinois and West Virginia in 1960. But the righteous indignation coming from the media and the Democrats as though some precious thing has been violated here that's just unacceptable. I even saw on TV today a Republican official lamenting this, that this is such an unnecessary and such an unfortunate assault on one of the greatest God-given acts that humanity engages in, that is the presidential election, and to taint it this way is just -- you know, folks, I actually think so much stuff is out of proportion.

By the way, Rush Limbaugh, I didn't tell you my name because everybody knows who I am, and I didn't tell you the phone number because you know what that is. 800-282-2882.

The proportion of people that think the election is over and Trump's toast, these people are acting, I don't know, like they don't think that. And look, I'm not the guy sitting here trying to offer you false optimism. I don't engage in that. Something's not right here. I can't put my finger on it. The left, for having something in the bag, they're not happy. They're not pre-celebrating. They're not pre-popping champagne corks. They're out there angrier than ever, which is not new. I mean, they're angry all the time, and they do get angry as they succeed. It's one of the craziest psychological things about them.

But there's a guy out there with an account on social media. By the way, I need to add social media into this top 1% of deceit, this intricately woven web of deceit, you have the Democrats, Wall Street, media, and social media. I would throw them in. That's the top 1% that everybody needs to be concerned about. There is an account on social media from a guy claiming to work for the post office who is bragging about how he is destroying Trump absentee ballots.

Let me ask you this. If a postal worker went on social media, don't care whether it was Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, you name it, and was bragging about destroying Hillary absentee ballots, do you think they'd be trying to hunt this guy down and put him in jail with the guy who made the video that started Benghazi? They wouldn't be stopping. They'd find this guy, they'd hunt him down, give him to Marilyn Mosby and say, "Have at him." Charge him here, charge him there, put him in the back of a Baltimore police van and let's see what he looks like when he comes out. Whatever it takes. They would be unearthing everything to find out who this guy is.

What Trump is talking about with rigged election is the without doubt completely in the tank for Hillary media, which isn't media, again, and it's not even journalism anymore. And that's the nature of "rigged." Now, in terms of polling places and things being done with early voting and this absentee ballot stuff here being destroyed, Trump absentee ballots being destroyed, how would you know, by the way, when absentee ballot cast for who, how would you know which ones to destroy, which ones not to? I've never seen an absentee ballot, never filed one, never done one, I've never been at the voting office when they come, so I don't know what they look like. (interruption) So you'd have to open it?

So you've got a postal worker out there admitting he's opening absentee ballots that have been mailed in and he's just destroying the ones for Trump. What happens if he opens one up for Hillary, gotta reseal it? I guess they don't care, what does it matter, as long as it says Hillary on it, what do the Democrats care where it came from? It could be postmarked Mars and they'll take it.

Anyway, how are you, folks? I can't tell you so many people I know -- and I heard Newt say this on TV over the weekend. He thinks that -- and I've got friends, smart, engaged friends who think that everybody's gonna go to bed on election night prepared for a massive surprise and shock and wake up to find one, and that is Trump winning. And they're basing it on real evidence. Well, I don't know if you can call it evidence. They're basing it on things that they see, Trump's rallies.

By the way, in the Stack of Stuff today I have a story from somebody, I think it's at TheHill.com. If it's not The Hill; it's something like that. Anyway, somebody, a writer there, actually went to a Trump event wanting to document that it's a bunch of toothless, gummer, Deliverance types out there shouting all kinds of insults at Hillary, basically hayseed hicks, combined IQ at a Trump rally of a pencil eraser is what they think, and the guy or the girl, whoever, was stunned and shocked at what she saw or he saw in terms of the substance, in terms of Trump's supporters.

In other words, it was another glaring example of how the media creates these images that they then believe and then when confronted with reality they are in absolute shock and don't believe what they see. And in this case the writer saw a Trump really that was at total variance of what he or she expected on the plus side. In audio sound bite roster we've got an infobabe who went somewhere and talked to a woman that loves this program, and she said, "You know what, I've gotta find out why. I've gotta find out why this woman --" and the reporter that you'll hear in the sound bite's coming up was shocked at what she had heard.

So the Trump rallies continue to be huge. I can't tell you the number of emails I get from people who are either at these rallies or watching them on the Web and who say if the media were covering these, Trump would be up by 10 points. If the media were televising these rallies of what Trump is saying and the way the public is reacting to him, then it would be an entirely different campaign. And by contrast, Hillary is in hibernation, Hillary's hiding, can't find anybody that can find her. She's not out there doing personal appearances anywhere. The outward signs, you got the polling data -- by the way, Washington Post/ABC poll, latest one out, Hillary up by four. That is margin of error. In fact, you could call it a dead heat given the margin of error in the Washington Post poll.

I think when the Washington Post reports their poll they discredit their own poll in a way by calling our attention to other polls that show Hillary much farther ahead. But this poll has to have some of the people in the media distressed. Here we are three weeks out and the ABC/Washington Post poll shows Hillary leading Trump by four. Even if that were outside the margin of error, stop and think of this now. This is four points. Here's what the Washington Post says.

"The poll was conducted during one of the most tumultuous periods of Trump's candidacy, after the release of a video in which he spoke about taking sexual advantage of women and during a time when numerous women have accused him of sexual misconduct. ... Nonetheless, the controversy appeared to have had only a minimal impact on his overall support."

Let me translate that for you. "We thought we had him this time. We made him out to be the next Bill Cosby, not Clinton. Sorry. The timing was perfect, the same kind of October surprise we used to destroy Romney, Bob Dole, Herman Cain, you name it. We turned that Goody Two-shoes Mitt Romney into a monster. If it wasn't for 9/11 we could have taken out Bush 43 like we did his dad."

In other words, if Trump is at four points after withstanding this barrage, then they have to be scratching their heads. Now, I want to remind you of one more thing. We're getting close now to the period of time where the pollsters are going to have to start showing the race as it is. Now, I'm of the opinion they're not yet. I'm of the opinion that they're still using their polls to make news, to shape public opinion, rather than reflect it.

But as we get closer to the election -- we're not there yet, by the way. But as we get closer to the election, all of these polling companies are gonna want to be right when it's all over. So the polls that we get a week prior, the last polls before the election from all of these different outfits probably will be closer to what they really think is gonna happen, and because they have their reputations to protect after the election is over. Of course, they may not care about that anymore, it's such a one-sided thing. Nothing is gonna happen to them if the blow it.

But there still is this professional reputation. So we'll see if other polls start to tighten and get closer as we near Election Day. But the conventional wisdom is that Trump's toast, he's had it, he's unhinged. He won't stop talking about these women. He won't stop reacting. He won't stay on issues. Except when you go to one of his rallies he's totally on issues. And the people are as revved as they've ever been, and more people are showing up at Trump rallies than ever before, and more people are being turned away because they can't fit in than ever before.

And everybody tells you, "You can't judge it by that, Rush. That's not scientific data. That's anecdotal. That's just people talking." Well, it's not just people talking; we see it. "Yeah, but we don't know who those people are. We don't know how many of them are actually Hillary supporters that are just rubbernecking." I doubt that is the case.

RUSH: Okay. So ABC News/Washington Post has the race at Hillary plus four. NBC News is just out with a new poll with the Wall Street Journal. Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump by double digits. It's 11 points with just over three weeks until Election Day. This according to a brand-new national NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll conducted entirely after the second debate.

"In a four-way race, Democrat Clinton holds an 11-point lead over Republican Trump among likely voters, 48 percent to 37 percent, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7 percent and the Green Party's Jill Stein at 2 percent. In a two-way contest without Johnson and Stein, Clinton is ahead by 10 points, 51 percent to 41 percent."

I have a little bit of a question, it's obviously rhetorical, but, you know, the Drive-Bys are prohibited from announcing the winners in various states on Election Day 'til the polls close, right? They observe this. It started back in 1980, by the way, I'll tell you why. My question is, how come they can run article after article after article claiming that Hillary has won certain states already when early voting is already taking place? But you can't report on election returns before a state is closed, yet early voting doesn't have any prohibition.

RUSH: Folks, I want to remind you again what is happening here with this obvious out-of-balance media coverage of Trump. I'm not trying to do a See, I Told You So, but I have mentioned countless times that this is what it's always gonna look like whenever an outsider attempts to defeat and oust the establishment. It's gonna look like this no matter who the nominee is, if the nominee is a genuine outsider.

The establishment owns the establishment. They are the media. They are Wall Street. They are some major corporations in terms of donors. They are elected officials in both parties and they have worked hard. The establishment's been around as long as humanity. Every organization of human beings has its elite members, from a town, to a town council, to a sports team, there are always the special few elites. They know it and they work hard to protect it. And they work very hard building walls to keep people out of it, particularly people who want to overthrow it.

So this is what it's always going to look like. The people who are members of the establishment, the elite 1% here that make up the establishment are going to circle the wagons and join forces, and they're just not gonna trust their fate to a normal, everyday, standard-operating-procedure election taking place under the auspices of democracy. They're just not going to. They didn't get power by randomly winning things. They didn't keep their power by hoping that random events continue to fall in their favor.

They got power by taking it. They keep power by engineering the outcome of events that keeps them in power. It's the nature. You could almost say the human nature, the psychological aspects of this. So it's understandable in that sense that they're not just going to sit by and watch a campaign happen and then deal with whatever the results are, especially if they lose.

They're not even gonna give that a chance. They're going to go to every length possible to eliminate any possibility that any outsider is going to succeed. So they have, in this case, done so. They've joined forces and it's all-out destruction: personal, career, political, you name it, all-out destruction of anybody who joins the outsider in his, in this case Trump's, effort.

Now, even within the establishment you have groups. Even within the establishment you've got your top dog ruling class and then people that are not yet at that level, but they're still in the group, and they want to stay in the group. And they want to climb the ladder that exists in that group to get to the pinnacle. Some of them do. In this case I'm describing Republican members of the establishment. They want to stay there. They don't want to be ousted.

hat's why they're not in any way, shape, manner, or form supporting Trump because they don't want outsiders to take over the vaunted positions of power that run the world. And that's what these positions do. People in the establishment, the elite establishment of the United States not only run America, they run the world in consort with other establishment members around the world -- United Nations and various other friendly nation states.

They all circle the wagons for each other, and they will protect each other when they're under assault. When they have staved off an assault, they'll go back to internecine battles among their own selves and their own group, but their circling the wagon. This is what it looks like. It was never gonna be easy. It was never going to be fair. The media was never gonna roll over and just let this happen. They're part of it. The media is part of what I call the media-establishment complex or the top 1%.

I think a lot of people would have crumbled by now if they had been dished the treatment Trump has gotten. I think a lot of people would have caved and said, "You know what? I've got a life after all of this is over and I don't want these people destroying what I'm doing here." They would have caved. They would have quit. They would have ceded or what have you.

Trump has not done that and I think the establishment is kind of surprised and shocked and a little not sure what's going on here. Because the one thing they know is that their hold on power is, as this is demonstrating, they are a minority. They govern against the will of the people. Once it is discovered who and what they are, it's very obvious that they are not us and that they do not share our concerns and that they're not nationalistic Americans the way we are.

They view America in an entirely different way as part of a global organization and arrangement. Their power goes way beyond their positions in the United States. So here comes an outsider, and they're gonna destroy the outsider whoever he or she is. This is what it looks like. And it is always going to look like this, until it happens. And if it does happen, if an outsider ever really wins, I shudder to think what the aftermath is going to be. We'll deal with that, should it occur. But I just want to remind everybody that's what this is.

There's no pretense of fairness, and there never was gonna be. There's no pretense of objectivity, and there was never gonna be. There's no pretense of anything but rigged. You know, in the sense that Trump means it, he's right. When I say rigged, the establishment is using every asset it has to ensure that they win this. They're not leaving it up to just a vote, like you're taught in civics 101 that elections take place and the winners win, the losers lose, and you have campaigns, fundraising, they're not leaving it up to any of that. And they were never going to.

So in that sense, if the powerful, using every aspect of their power to hold on to their power equals rigging the game, I mean, there's no doubt that that's happening. But it's also not surprising. Shouldn't be, anyway. I mean, many of the people in the establishment are not there because of the democratic process. The elected ones are, but there are vastly many more people within the elite, the establishment, that have never been elected to anything.

They got there in an entirely different way, they stay there entirely different ways, and many of them have much more power over elected officials, as we are seeing.

RUSH: Just now, John King -- we're talking about polls, we got the ABC News/Washington Post poll, which was taken after the debate, second debate and with all the allegations from these women. Many of these allegations, by the way, are being blown smithereens. Many of the allegations from women saying Trump abused them have been blown to smithereens.

The Drive-Bys are not covering any of that. They're sticking with the original theme which is that Trump is a reprobate and doesn't matter what Bill Clinton did. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is out showing Hillary up 11, same time frame as the Washington Post/ABC poll that shows Hillary up by four. Here is, just moments ago, John King Inside Politics on CNN.

KING: Battleground state of Ohio, good news for Donald Trump: Trump up 48% to 44%. North Carolina, poll shows Hillary Clinton with the narrowest of lead, a one-point lead. So statistically a dead heat. Go west to Nevada. This one's a bit of a surprise. 46-44, again a very narrow Clinton lead. The statisticians would say that's a dead heat. If you look at those numbers right there and you're a Trump supporter, well, after a tough couple of weeks reason to see the glass is half full, right? But if you look the other map, the electoral map, Clinton's state-by-state advantage is still pretty overwhelming heading into the stretch. The hard truth for Trump is, she can afford to lose all three of those states and still win election.

RUSH: So you see how this works. They have new polling data, great news for Trump in all these states, but it doesn't matter, because Hillary is still gonna win. I think they're not sure of that. In fact, I know they're not sure of that because that's what's shaping the way they are continuing to report on this. And if you look at the polling data, there's an interesting aspect to all of these polls, and that is that Hillary Clinton is not at 50% in any of them.

And nobody's talking about that aspect I think largely because in many of these polls now there are four people. Hillary and Trump and then Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. So you got four people there and it divvies the vote up. I know Bill Clinton didn't win with 50%. But they're making Hillary out to be slam dunk massive landslide winner. She's not at 50%. She's back below it. She hasn't been at 50% or over. They really ballyhooed that. I think, what was it, the Reuters/Ipsos when she was up 11 and they had her at 50 over, they just went bonkers. They were ecstatic, 51%. But she's back below it now.

The people that pay attention to polling, that's weird. That doesn't jibe with somebody running away with this. And the fact that she is projected to be this landslide winner and she can't get to 50% I think might give some of them on her side pause, might concern some of them, because she's not demonstrating any upward movement. You might say that whatever polls are being taken show is that Trump is losing ground. But she's not gaining any. She's not likable. She doesn't have charismatic type personality. I don't know, folks. I don't know anything. It just doesn't seem that the people on the winning side of this who think they've already won it in a landslide, they just don't seem happy. I don't know.

Yes, he means that the election is rigged.

It’s entirely corrupt.

Every single aspect of it.

Just like our government and our media.

We all know that the dead voters will vote for the democrat.

We all know that the illegal alien voters will vote for the democrat.

We all know that the felon voters will vote for the democrat.

We all know that the multiple-time voters will vote for the democrat.

We all know that the ballot boxes will have additional democrat votes added.

We all know that the people who don’t show up on election day will have a vote cast for them at the end of the day, and that vote will be for the democrat.

We all know that multiple democrat strongholds will have greater than 100% turnout.

We all know that Illary would get absolutely DEMOLISHED in a fair election.

I knew it was rigged when they recounted the ballots in Florida in 2000. Gore was supposed to win, and they screwed up. And when Romney and Obama were having a debate, and Obama made the remark about the Bayonets and Mitt just sat there, I knew they had gotten to him and told him he is supposed to lose and just accept it.

Infuriating to see CNN and the disgusting media!

Trump MUST call out the media Wed!!!!

Not only do they ignore the O’keefe story..

Look at their front page!!!!! A story on Melania and the tape!!!!!!!!

Disgusting VERMIN!!!!

I did poll worker training in Cuyahoga Country. It's an incredibly complex system. Vote-by-mail, provisional votes, and early voting at county headquarters make it really difficult to imagine how there's complete confidence that there aren't flaws.

Back when I was a young voter, you voted at your home precinct on election day. The folks checking you in knew most of the voters, and got enough ID to convince them that a voter was who they said they were. The votes got counted, by hand, with anyone who wanted to be there looking on. The count was announced, so anyone could confirm that the reporting was accurate.

That old system has to be more accurate than it is now. It was simple.

Whatever Trump means, I and many others know the whole damn system is rigged or we’d have never started exporting jobs and entire factories instead of looking out for our own citizens.

In 1994, Republican Ellen Sauerbrey was “defeated” by Democrat Parris Glendening in Maryland’s gubernatorial election. The margin was 5900 votes, in what was a landmark year for the GOP.

It was discovered that dead people voted for Glendening in Baltimore City, if not elsewhere. The case made its way to the Maryland Court of Appeals, where Martin O’Malley’s father in law, the then-sitting AG in Maryland, Democrat Joe Curran, argued that “ONLY EIGHTEEN DEAD PEOPLE VOTED” and the election should be certified.

The Maryland judiciary agreed and upheld the result. In the annals of Democrat-ruled absurdity, the judicial precedent was set. Not enough dead people voted.

But even in Maryland, dead people voting requires live people committing voter fraud. And they let it stand.

Words can’t even begin to describe how much I despise these NeverTrump vermin.. they see the media lies, the attempt to destroy a good man, the utter corruption... and they still remain unmoved

Even worse, these scumbags pile on... I hate them even more than liberals!
Jonah Goldberg
Bill Kristol
John Podhoretz
Mitt Romney
George Will
Ben Shapiro
Erick Erikkson

And all the rest can burn in hell

My husband and I registered as Republican on 12/27/1979. To vote we had to go to our assigned voting (ward) district location, where we showed our registration card. We only voted once absent, because we went to a family reunion and weren't going to be here for the election. To vote absent we had to go to the election commission, show our registration, fill out the ballot they gave us and turn it in.

When TN started with early voting we took advantage of it because it was convenient, especially when you are working. To do so you showed your registration card. Then when the information on the registration card was confirmed you were sent to the appropriate voting machine. If you didn't want to vote early, than you just go to your assigned voting location.

I still show my voter registration card, plus as a picture ID I show my military dependent card. My Driver's license does not have a photo on it because here in TN it is not required for senior citizens to have a photo on the drivers license.

We all know that the rats count not win an election without voter fraud. Whether it is that dead people voting, illegals voting, voters voting in more locations than their assigned location, or just plain stealing an election.

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