The Art of the Steal: Dems Set Stage for 2020

RUSH: Okay. So, here we are. We’re sitting here one week after the elections, and in Florida the elections are still going on, or at least the count, the recount, the search, the quest for votes continues unabated. Georgia as well. Even though Stacey Abrams finds herself down by one and a half percent and tens of thousands of votes, they are still looking for votes, counting every vote.

Are you tired of that mantra yet? “We must count every vote,” as though somebody is trying not to count every vote. You could say the same thing about Arizona, except Martha McSally has conceded and her number one praiseworthy advocate is Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, who says this is how Republicans need to act. When they lose, they need to concede. Obviously, McSally cares about being a good citizen and being a good American, and she did what all good Republicans should do, and that is concede.

So how come it isn’t Democrats never concede, or when they do concede, they withdraw the concession? You know, Algore conceded in 2000. He pulled it back. Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson conceded one week ago today. Maybe the next day they pulled it back. So even when Democrats do concede, they unconcede within just a few hours.

So, I guess when a Republican wins an election it’s perfectly fine to allege the election was stolen or that it was the result of collusion. But when the Democrats attempt to steal an election, it’s justice, it’s just the way things ought to be.

So which party is it that will not accept the results of elections? Which party is it trying to undermine our faith in the elections? And, by the way, do you think what’s going on in Florida is really all about these two races here, the governor race and the Senate race? I mean, it is, but there’s something much bigger at stake as well, and that’s 2020.

You know, Florida is perennially close, like Ohio is, and I think that the focus on the recounts here for Nelson and Scott and Gillum and DeSantis is actually intended to keep our attention distracted from what may really – I don’t know what it is. Do not misunderstand, I cannot specify what might be going on, but I can tell you all we have to do, if you think things are normal in Florida, take a look at this. This is not normal. This is abnormal.

Deadlines are being missed. We have an election supervisor who has already been found guilty of screwing around with ballots and she’s still on the job. The point about Jeb Bush, by the way. There was a lunatic before Brenda Snipes. Her name was Miriam Oliphant, and she was in there, and she was just as bad. In Broward County, she was just as bad as Snipes. Do you remember Miriam Oliphant? Guess who appointed both of them? The Jebber. Jeb Bush.

Why would you do that? Well, the theory is that Broward is a majority Democrat county, so we have to appoint a Democrat Board of Elections director down there. We have to name one. It’s an elected position but then there’s an opening, there’s an appointment involved. This is classic, to show the Democrats and to show voters that we are fair and equitable, and we realize that it’s a county where more people are gonna vote against us than for us, and so we’re gonna acknowledge this.

Somehow this is supposed to buy us goodwill from leftists and Democrat voters.

Do you think the Democrats would ever appoint somebody in the opposite party in a position that mattered to them just to show us that they could be — they wouldn’t care a whit about it, and of course Trump is just like them in this regard.

So, they’re out there saying count every vote, count every vote, the vote is sacred, every vote must count. But158 people who lost their homes to Hurricane Michael were allowed to vote by email or fax, and Gillum is opposing this. You might be saying, why, if you’re saying count every vote. Well, because you can’t vote by email, and you can’t vote by fax. Well, a special dispensation was granted because they lost their homes and their polling places. It’s 158 people.

The Democrats are on the warpath against those 158 people, while out there shouting at the rooftops that every vote should be counted. So how does that square? The problem that these 158 votes come from a predominantly Republican county up in the Panhandle and therefore their votes shouldn’t be counted. Meanwhile, noncitizens’ votes should be counted. It isn’t their fault that they were registered. They showed up, they are trying to participate in our democracy.

But 158 votes from up in Bay County, predominantly Republican by email or fax, ah, ah, ah, ah, nope. Andrew Gillum says those votes should not be counted.

The third thing this is about is taking the occasion of this recount to put in place various safeguards and protections for themselves for the 2020 presidential election, which they also lost to Trump. Folks, this is why we are in a real hellish position right now, because they refuse to accept the outcome of elections. That’s what’s happening here, it’s what happened in 2016. They simply refused to accept the election results. When that happens, that’s the glue that keeps everything together. Here the winners win, the losers lose. The losers figure out what they did, what went wrong, try to fix it.

That’s not what’s happening now. The people that lose are saying they were jobbed, they were cheated. Republicans cheated, the Russians did this, or there’s something screwy with the ballots in Florida or what have you. But as this goes on, as there is an ongoing refusal by one party to accept election results, there’s nothing good that’s gonna come from this.

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