Rush Says Think Twice If You Believe Media Narrative that Trump is Losing Base

Off-year elections were held Tuesday in various parts of the country, but by far the bulk of the media’s attention was focused on one match-up in particular — the gubernatorial race in Virginia.

Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie by a wide margin to succeed out-going Democrat Gov. Terry MacAuliffe — keeping an already blue state blue — and the liberal media let out a cheer before immediately launching into a narrative that the Virginia election heralded a nationwide anti-Trump wave ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, and that President Donald Trump’s base was abandoning him.

But conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh disagreed during his Thursday program, and took the time to explain to his listeners why the media narrative was nothing but a lie.

Limbaugh first cited a new poll released by Politico/Morning Consult, which showed that some 82 percent of Trump’s voters in 2016 would vote for him if the race were held again. Conversely, only 78 percent of failed Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s voters would vote for her again.

Based on those numbers, Rush suspected that Trump would actually win a hypothetical rematch election by a wider margin than he did in 2016.

“This matters, and I’m pointing this out to you because it flies in the face of the new media narrative, which is the Republicans are finished, that the Virginia vote means everybody’s tired of Trump, fed up with Trump, embarrassed by Trump, and it’s over,” Limbaugh stated.

“And it doesn’t mean that at all. It doesn’t mean anything,” he continued. “… And yet the drive-bys, all they can talk about is the wave of resistance against Trump that swept so many Democrats into office yesterday. A virtual tsunami.”

Again, a reminder that the “virtual tsunami” was literally one blue state remaining blue (two, if you count New Jersey, where the Republican never had a chance to win after Gov. Chris Christie’s dismal term in office).

Limbaugh continued, reiterating that Trump would defeat Clinton by a wider margin if the election were held again, before he delved off into a discussion of the Republican establishment being torn on whether to work with Trump to please its base or fall in line with Democrats and the media against Trump.

“What I’m telling you is that this anti-Trump wave supposedly created by Virginia is a lie,” he said. “There is no anti-Trump wave right now is what I’m trying to tell you.”

Limbaugh recounted the heavy losses Democrats suffered during the eight years of the Barack Obama presidency, as well as the realization after Clinton’s loss that Democrats would be out of power for awhile, leading to their promotion of the “resistance.” He noted how the current narrative — of the anti-Trump wave — has been kept in reserve the entire time, waiting for an opportunity to be unleashed, like an election win.

“There have been special elections all year, this year, leading up to Virginia yesterday,” Limbaugh stated. “And in every instance, the Republican won, after the media had told everybody the Democrats were gonna win, after every one of those special elections was cast or portrayed or promoted as a referendum on Trump.”

“When Trump wins them, when the Republican wins them, of course that explanation is dropped,” he continued. “The narrative that it’s a referendum on Trump is dropped and the excuses are made for how unfair it was for the Democrat here or this or whatever …

“This is all media-manufactured narrative — and like all media manufactured narratives, it’s designed to dispirit you,” he explained. “It’s designed to quiet you down and depress you and hopefully to get you to not care anymore and just stand aside and realize there’s nothing you can do.

“Even when Trump wins, you still are not gonna win anything. The left, the media, they still run everything. And that’s the purpose of these narratives,” he added. “And so now we have this gigantic anti-Trump wave, right? Except that we don’t. This anti-Trump wave is a fabricated media lie.”

Later in the program, Limbaugh cited another poll that was even more telling of the media’s false narrative on Trump losing his base than the first, as it focused on likely voters instead of the general public, and therefore painted a more accurate picture.

It was a Reuters/Ipsos poll that revealed that President Trump actually pulled higher approval numbers from likely voters than from the general public — roughly 7 points better — and likely voters are the ones who really matter when it comes to polling.

That poll also found that 85 percent of Trump’s voters in 2016 would vote for him again, a higher margin than that found in the Politico/Morning Consult poll.

All of this to say, don’t believe the media narrative that Trump is hemorrhaging support among his base and Democrats are poised to sweep the nation with massive victories in 2018, because that really isn’t the case at all.

The mid-term elections are a year away. The media will probably be spinning plenty of other narratives before that time comes.

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Source: Conservative Tribune