http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/04/13/why_didn_t_the_trump_campaign_say_something_about_colorado_soonerWhy Didn't the Trump Campaign Say Something About Colorado Sooner?
April 13, 2016
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RUSH: Yeah, I was just asking a question here of the staff. I'm gonna ask you, and if anybody wants to call and give me your answer to this, have at it. We all know that the Trump campaign is continuing to actively -- I don't want to use the word "complain," but they're being very critical of the Colorado process, okay? So my question is this. The Colorado process has been known for months and months and months. I'm serious here. Not trying to make a point with it. I'm actually asking a question.
Why not complain about this two months ago? Why not call attention to it last month, two weeks ago, two months ago? Why wait until after the results to start complaining about how it was rigged? It's not as though something happened in Colorado that nobody knew was gonna happen. It's not as though they changed the rules in the middle of the process during the weekend. So why complain, why call attention to it now? Why not do so a month ago? Why not back in September or October or whenever the Trump campaign found out how Colorado was gonna manage its affairs here during the primary?
Greetings, my friends. Welcome to the EIB Network. Rush Limbaugh back at it here for another three hours. The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
I guess one of the biggest bits of news that's out there now is that apparently a member of the Republican National Committee, a guy by the name of Randy Evans, was on MSNBC this morning. We have a ban on anything that happens there. And I'm not gonna lift the ban. I don't need the ban lifted. This guy said on MSNBC this morning, "If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 delegates, then he's gonna get the nomination." If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 delegates, he will become the nominee, even though he may not have 1,237.
Well, this has caused a lot of buzz. People are asking, "Wait a minute. What does this mean?" There are any number of possibilities. Does this mean, is this guy speaking for the whole committee? And has the committee internally decided that if Trump gets that close, 1,100, they're just gonna scrap the 1,237 rule and hand it to Trump? Or does he mean, hey, if he gets to 1,100 there's no stopping him no matter what anybody tries to do. Does he mean that? Or does he mean something else? And everybody is digging deep trying to find out exactly what Randy Evans meant.
And apparently somebody named Caitlin Huey-Burns, Real Clear Politics tweeted out: Just got off the phone with Randy Evans, the Republican National Committee, and he said the 1,237 number is not flexible, only that if Trump is close that he can wrangle enough unbound delegates.
So I hate to be the bearer of what some might consider bad news, but this does not constitute an official change of the rules from the RNC and the convention. It just happened this one committee member goes on TV today and says, "Hey, if Trump gets to 1,100, it'll be a snap to get to 1,237. All he's gotta do is go and get 137 unbound, 117 unbound delegates, whatever it is, and he's got it in the bag." So the guy was not saying that the RNC is going to modify the 1,237 rule and count 1,100 close enough to say it's a done deal. He's simply saying if he gets that close, it's gonna be easy for the Trumpster to go out there and make up the difference.
Washington Post has a story today saying that the Cruz campaign is working diligently to make sure that Trump does not get to 1,237 on the second ballot, much less the first. So it remains unsettled. We have polling data coming in from New York where Trump continues to poll way, way, way out in front of anybody else.
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RUSH: And we start on the phones today in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This is Grace. I'm glad you called. What's on your mind?
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: Well, I have a lot of questions for you. We've been listening to you since 1997. My husband corrected me, '91. We're Colorado voters and we don't agree to the point, yeah, okay, they made the rules, this Republican deal thing here. In fact, we know that Cruz was here, and what I'm trying to say is, we just don't find that it's right for them to do that and disenfranchise the voters. And secondly, to us, because we've been Republican voters for years. And what we're saying is that the more that they try to destroy Trump, the same people are driving people to him. We were Cruz, now we're Trump.
originalRUSH: Well, see, in a way, these things balance themselves out. I know it appears unfair, it looks like it's disenfranchises voters. I don't think this is the first time Colorado's done it this way. But it does, it does disenfranchise. Voters don't play a role in this. That was the rule going in. The delegates are selected at caucuses, and they apply to be delegates, and they go out and they get 10 seconds to campaign 'cause there's so many of them that they only get 10 seconds to get put on a slate. But, look, it's backfiring in a lot of ways, and it's actually redounding in certain places to Trump's benefit here.
CALLER: We just find it so wrong what they're doing. And now we've been -- I even posted on Facebook, another voter here in Colorado that has done what the Republican Party, they're leaving the Republican Party left and right and going to Trump. And --
RUSH: Okay, so you were all-in for Cruz until this happened, and you got so mad because Trump got screwed that you're joining the Trump --
CALLER: No, no, no. We had made our decision for Trump some time ago.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: We just felt like, okay, you know, just because a man says he's a Christian or just because he holds up a Bible doesn't make him one, and we're not believing everything that we are listening to --
RUSH: Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho.
CALLER: -- because there's so much -- first of all, when you listen to the news, I mean, all you hear is nothing but garbage and trash and just trying to destroy each other. And the one thing that --
RUSH: Wait, wait a minute, wait -- hold it. Garbage, who's talking garbage about who? Who are you referring to? The media or other candidates?
CALLER: Actually, both. Both.
RUSH: Well, look what you just did. You just savaged Cruz (imitating caller), "just 'cause you hold a Bible up and say you're a Christian doesn't mean you're one." I mean, you're qualified to be on cable news.
CALLER: (laughing) Well, the thing is we even used to be Fox News listeners, and we don't even do that anymore. We're just so tired of all of this mess.
RUSH: I know. Look, I hear this. You do not know how much I hear it. I know exactly where you're coming from. I wish I had more time, but I don't.
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