Limbaugh: 2 things raise red flags for Trump
Limbaugh: 2 things raise red flags for Trump
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While insisting he’s not throwing anyone under the bus in the presidential race, radio host Rush Limbaugh is raising red flags concerning statements by Donald Trump that he says could be “potentially huge errors” for the Republican front-runner.
“If you’re a conservative voter in the Republican primary, these two things have gotta raise some red flags for you people, I would think,” Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Monday.
The first concerns Trump’s answer to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” when the billionaire businessman was asked: “What do you think of Ted Cruz?”
“I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment,” Trump responded.
“You look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate where he goes in there like a … You know, frankly, like a little bit of a maniac. You’re never gonna get things done that way. You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people. He’ll never get anything done, and that’s the problem with Ted.”
Limbaugh sounded stunned by Trump’s remark.
“Whoa! Wait just a second here,” the radio host exclaimed. “Doesn’t that kind of describe the way Trump has been dealing with people he disagrees with? I mean, he’s been calling them stupid, he’s been calling them incompetent, he’s been saying you can’t get anything done with these people.”
“Even people who are not particularly aligned with Cruz on the right have gotta be curious about this because this is no different than what the media would say about Ted Cruz,” Limbaugh continued.
“This is no different than what the Democratic Party would say. I mean, this is what the Republican establishment would say, for crying out loud. I mean, this is akin to saying, ‘I’m the guy who can cross the aisle and work with the other side.’ That hasn’t been the way Trump has come off up ’til now. He’s not positioned that way.”
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Limbaugh said the Trump strategy was glaringly obvious.
“This is obviously the Trump campaign deciding to use the most common criticism against Cruz because they see that Cruz has negatives. They see that Cruz is not liked by the Republican establishment, and so they’re just piggybacking on that, I think, as a way for Trump to maybe score some points with the Republican establishment. ‘Cause after all, he needs ‘em on his side for the nomination if he wants there to be the respect and unity, and not have to go third party.
“So he’s decided to go after Cruz here in the way the establishment Republicans go after Cruz, in the way the media goes after Cruz, in the way the Democrats go after Cruz. He’s essentially put on his John McCain hat here and is saying, ‘I’m Donald McCain, and I’m the guy that can cross the aisle and work with the other side. Ted Cruz can’t.’ I was kind of surprised by that.”
He labeled Trump’s answer about Cruz “a huge mistake.”
“On paper, it’s a huge mistake,” Limbaugh explained. “Trump gets away with his mistakes. Such is the bond of loyalty that his support base has for him that he gets away with them. And I don’t think he’s made that many. Don’t misunderstand. But for any of you who are holding out hope that Trump is a genuine conservative. A genuine conservative, even in the Republican field, would not go after Cruz this way. So that just raised a red flag for me.”
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The second flag came with Trump’s response Sunday to a question on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“What do you think of Justice Scalia’s remarks, and where are you today on affirmative action?” asked host Jake Tapper.
Tapper’s question stemmed from an oral argument for a case challenging affirmative action at public universities last week. As reported by the Hill, Scalia posited that minority students who were not qualified for admission at elite universities would perform better at “less-advanced schools.”
Trump told Tapper: “I thought it was very tough to the African-American community, actually. I don’t like what he said. I actually saw it in print, and I’m going … I read a lot of stuff. I’m going, ‘Whoa.’ I have great African-American friendships. I have just amazing relationships. But, yeah, I was very surprised at Scalia’s statements, actually.”
Limbaugh noted, “Well, they weren’t ‘Scalia’s statements.’ They were arguments that had been submitted to the court that he was engaging in oral argument over.”
After his analysis, Limbaugh’s staff informed him that “MSNBC cannot stop reporting you turned on Trump today.”
“I did not throw Trump under the bus today, I did not … turn on Trump,” the host stressed. “I haven’t turned on anybody. I haven’t thrown anybody away, I haven’t announced support for anybody. All I did was raise a question about the way Trump went after Cruz.”
Regarding the national news media, Limbaugh says they have been waiting and hoping for a moment like this where it would even appear the radio powerhouse might be turning against Trump.
“They think I have the ability to make or break any of these candidates. They can’t. They think I have the moral authority,” Limbaugh concluded.
As WND reported, Donald Trump’s campaign rocketed to 41 percent with primary voters in a new national poll released Monday, but he trails Ted Cruz by 10 points in the early-voting state of Iowa.
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