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Trump Hits 50% Approval After His Appearance on This Show
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 2, 2018 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 08/02/2018 4:27:14 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: Man, oh, man. How do we outdo yesterday’s program? I’m not sure I can top it. And, folks, I have to tell you, I was… I shouldn’t admit this, but I had more butterflies than usual starting about two hours before the program because I’m so uncomfortable. I really am. I’m uncomfortable bringing the focus on me. I have no problem when other people do it, I just… (sigh) Yet I’m aware what a lot of people think. Thirty years is a significant achievement. So it was… (exhale) It was pressure packed, and it turned out better than I thought it was going to turn out.

We mixed everything in there. Fabulous. We had a call from the president of the United States, which now the rest of the Drive-Bys are talking about and have been since it happened. We have audio sound bites of that, and I was thinking, “How do I top that?” I thought maybe today I’d talk about Apple and talk about golf and talk about the NFL, and just stick it to the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. But then I realized the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd probably didn’t like half of yesterday’s show. Not disliked it, just, “Okay, okay. We get it. But move on, move on.”

Anyway, 30 years behind us and we move on.

Thank you all for being with us today and yesterday and for the entirety of the 30 years.

In the presidential tracking poll at Rasmussen, the president has hit 50% approval. Now, the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party do not recognize Rasmussen. They think it’s an outlier or it is a polling unit that is… well, biased towards Trump, maybe biased toward Republicans. But it is a poll, and it’s a tracking poll and it’s been accurate. The Rasmussen people have been doing this kind of polling for years.

They have traditionally ranked in the top five, maybe even top three, when you get to presidential election polling and daily tracking polling. Their tracking poll for today shows “50% of likely U.S. voters approve of Trump’s job performance; 49% disapprove. The latest figures include 35% who strongly approve of the way Trump is performing, 41% who strongly disapprove. The presidential approval index rating is minus 6.”

So I don’t expect you’re going to see any of this reflected much if at all in the Drive-By Media today. But I wanted to pass it on to you because they’re going to know it. They will notice it. They will process it internally. They will curse it. It will affect the way they go about reporting on Trump today. It will, if possible, ratchet up their hatred.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I got an email from Koko at the website. “Hey, Rush, do you think it’s a coincidence that Trump bumps to 50% approval for the first time the day after he appears on your show?” I didn’t want to say it. I’m trying to dial back the braggadocio. I didn’t want to say it. But now that Koko has raised the possibility, how could I deny it? It’s the one thing that Trump hasn’t done. This was the first time he’s appeared on the program. He appears on the program and bammo! He jumps up three points, maybe two, in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking poll.

I’ll tell you something else: If you look at the candidates that Trump is backing… You know, on this program he said he’s not sure if support for him will transfer to Republicans in the House races in November. Meaning he doesn’t know what coattails he’s going to have. Every Republican primary candidate that he has endorsed is winning or leading. In fact, CNN just had a little blurb on it saying, “Trump-backed candidates are crushing it.” So I would say that Trump has some coattails and he’s going to be ratcheting up these rallies as we get close. He has another one scheduled today in Pennsylvania. This isn’t over yet!


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To: Robert A Cook PE

BTW, TN had RECORD GOP turnout in a non-presidential primary year.

Yeah, muh blue wave.


41 posted on 08/03/2018 6:16:41 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ExTexasRedhead

TN just had RECORD GOP turnout in a non-presidential primary.

“Muh blue wave.”


42 posted on 08/03/2018 6:19:00 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: laplata

TN yesterday had record GOP primary turnout in a non-presidential year.


43 posted on 08/03/2018 6:20:26 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Red Steel

TN just had record GOP turnout in a non-presidential primary.

“Muh blue wave.”


44 posted on 08/03/2018 6:21:01 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ExTexasRedhead
91% of Orthodox Jews thinks President Trump is amazing!

And THAT is amazing too! :-)
45 posted on 08/03/2018 6:46:42 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Howie66

IMO, Trump’s poll numbers are between 60-70% or higher.


46 posted on 08/03/2018 7:27:13 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: LS

TN yesterday had record GOP primary turnout in a non-presidential year.

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That’s a very good sign.


47 posted on 08/03/2018 7:38:57 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: rodguy911

Yes we are, and one day we won’t. And there is going to be a massive empty space on the radio dial.


48 posted on 08/03/2018 10:34:14 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: LS
Rs have their best record primary turnout in TN with 2 to 1 over Dems and how do these pollsters have it? Something is wrong with these pollsters and their methods.



49 posted on 08/03/2018 6:25:41 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: KavMan

I agree that the numbers do not make any sense. If he is more popular with blacks and Latinos than in 2016, and I have not seen any credible information showing he has lost the support of his base, then he has to be at about 52-56% approval rate.

The news media still acts as though when they say something is true, then it is true. But, they never leave their bubble of leftists. From morning to evening, they surround themselves with left-leaning people, and then act surprised when others do not agree with them. We must all be deplorables according to their logic.


50 posted on 08/30/2018 4:47:20 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: KavMan

I agree that the numbers do not make any sense. If he is more popular with blacks and Latinos than in 2016, and I have not seen any credible information showing he has lost the support of his base, then he has to be at about 52-56% approval rate.

The news media still acts as though when they say something is true, then it is true. But, they never leave their bubble of leftists. From morning to evening, they surround themselves with left-leaning people, and then act surprised when others do not agree with them. We must all be deplorables according to their logic.


51 posted on 08/30/2018 4:47:21 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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