Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that President Trump’s supporters should relax a bit over election chaos because he’s a fighter who won’t roll over and die in the face of chaos.
The talk radio icon said the election math is in Mr. Trump’s favor — along with lawyers who aren’t easily fooled.
“There’s no trick they haven’t seen that they aren’t prepared for,” Mr. Limbaugh said. “The Trump family and the team they have is not the old, shall we say, Republican Party of 20 years ago where we believed that the way to behave was to lose with honor and turn the other cheek. ’Let’s not get political, let’s not get dirty, let’s not have politics soil the office of the presidency.’”
Mr. Limbaugh’s comments come in the wake of political uncertainty over election outcomes in a handful of states that include Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The president has vowed to mount a legal campaign over mail-in voting issues all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“This [mail-in voting issue is] going to be the second-biggest political scandal in history,” Mr. Trump predicted while talking to the radio host in October. “The first biggest is the Russian crap that we’ve been going through for three and a half years. That’s the biggest. Every day I’m seeing accounts of ballots that are thrown away. You saw the military ballots that were thrown away with my name on it the other day. Every day you see scandal about these millions of ballots that’s being sent out. It’s the single biggest risk in this election.”
Mr. Limbaugh, noting the prescient nature of Mr. Trump’s comments, said voters who are skeptical of foul play should ask themselves a specific question: “Why is it every state except swing states run by Democrats … every other state can count the ballots — can get them in by the end of the night on election night and tell us who won — except swing states run by Democrats?”
“What does that tell you?” he continued. “It answers itself, does it not?”
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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