http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/07/07/trump_convention_coup_threat_veepstakesTrump Convention Coup Threat, Veepstakes
July 07, 2016
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RUSH: There's also, folks, a lot of stuff going on in the Republican campaign. There are two things we need to get into today at some point. One is the Trump campaign, the selection of his vice president. And as you'll hear again coming up in audio sound bites, one of the names being bandied about is Mike Pence, who is being referred to here as "Rush Limbaugh on decaf." (interruption) Well, he's a former radio talk show host. They called him "Rush Limbaugh on decaf." Newt Gingrich's name is also being thrown out. There's some people very, very alarmed about this.
There's some people very concerned that it'd be a big boo-boo for Trump to go out and find an elected Republican -- no matter who it is -- to serve as his VP, because that's not who Trump is. He doesn't need to get these guys that are from the Republican establishment near his ticket. Ann Coulter has a piece saying that if he does this, it's the first thing that she's disagreed with Trump on. She very, very concerned about it. She says if Trump goes out and picks an elected Republican to be his VP, that the thing that's gonna happen is he's gonna be impeached in six months.
The Republicans will impeach him, and he'll get removed, and they'll install his establishment VP as the president and take the party back and take the White House back. That's just her theory on this. She thinks that he needs to get somebody nobody ever heard of like Lincoln did who is as big on immigration -- anti-illegal immigration -- as he is, and get somebody that nobody is gonna wish were president, so they don't impeach Trump. Get somebody that is gonna really be his advocate for the thing that really matters to him, that it's these consultants he's hired that are trying to gum up the works here 'cause that's not who Trump is.
So we'll talk about that. The Wall Street Journal has a story: "Anti-Donald Trump Forces See Convention Coup as Within Reach." That's right. I saw a story last night that they are up to 900 delegates for Trump now. They think that if they can get the rule changed, the rule that requires pledged delegates to vote on the first ballot for the guy who won the state. That gives Trump well over 1,237. But if they can get the rules changed, right now Trump's only got 900 delegates and wouldn't even win the nomination. The rules-change effort is well underway, and that's what this Wall Street Journal story is: "Anti-Donald Trump Forces See Convention Coup as Within Reach."
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