http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/04/28/dueling_strategery_on_display_in_indianaDueling Strategery on Display in Indiana
April 28, 2016
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RUSH: The Indiana primary is coming up next week. Interesting, too, the way this is shaping up because what does Trump do? Trump goes out and gets Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight, one of the biggest people in Indiana. One of the most beloved, respected, and, by the way, a fighter. If Bobby Knight didn't agree with the refs, he'd throw a chair at 'em all across the court if he had to.
So here's Bobby Knight talking about the guy that can get it done, and that's Donald Trump. Same day that Ted Cruz announced Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential pick. So you have two strategies here, and they're on display side by side. Cruz announces a VP pick, Carly Fiorina, strategic for California there, I think. And also an attempt to change the narrative. And Trump appears on stage in Indiana with Bobby Knight, which is to keep up the momentum from the massive sweep of the Tuesday Northeastern primaries and then win Indiana and pretty much close it out, set up California.
So Cruz, his strategy is delegate strategic, Carly Fiorina in California trying to hold off Trump in Indiana. And Trump is going for voter intensity with Bobby Knight in Indiana and using celebrity and the power of celebrity to change the narrative and get people all hyped up for his side of things. Cruz is obviously the master of the inside game, Trump playing the people's choice card here.
And of course the media, this is the thing, folks, sad to say, the media's always gonna gravitate to the guy on stage with the celebrity. It's the way it is in America today. So Bobby Knight, big celebrity -- by the way, the media hates Bobby Knight. You should know this. The sports Drive-Bys hate Bobby Knight. They hate him 'cause he won and he did kowtow to them, and I don't think Bobby Knight broadcasts whatever his political affiliations are.
He's known as choosing what he thinks is the best guy for the job, whether he's Republican-Democrat, liberal-conservative, I don't know that it's widely known, and if it is, it's just because he's been in Indiana for so long and so many people know him, but he doesn't really broadcast it one way or the other. But the media will gravitate to the man of the people, the celebrity in his own right.
The insider game is not sexy, 'cause you don't see it. I mean, the insider game is Cruz working these state conventions for delegates, and nobody sees that, and even if anybody did, it wouldn't be exciting to cover. "Our cameras are live now at it San Cordoba state party convention where Ted Cruz is wooing local carpenters who might end up as delegates." Nobody's gonna watch that. It's not exciting. So you got Bobby Knight out there. But it's countered a little bit with Carly Fiorina.
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