Watch: Rush Limbaugh on Trump: Much bigger upside than downside #Trump2016
David McCabe, The Hill
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Sunday that there’s a “much bigger upside than downside” in the Republican presidential candidacy of real estate developer Donald Trump.
“I think with the case of Trump, there’s a much bigger upside than downside,” said Limbaugh while appearing on “Fox News Sunday.”
Limbaugh also said he believes that the divide between the Republican establishment and conservatives is “longer, broader, wider than I have ever seen it.”
But Limbaugh said that despite its divisions, he thinks the Republican Party will eventually settle on a nominee who will be better than the Democratic candidate, regardless of whether it is Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
He also said he doesn’t believe that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) will have an opportunity to get enough traction to get the nomination. And he generally praised Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R).
I actually think, when we get down to this summer and this all comes together and the pressure and intensity now is…
Posted by Rush Limbaugh on Sunday, March 6, 2022
“I think it ends with everything working out,” he said. “I think it ends with a nominee.”
WALLACE: So, bottom line: You do…? All this talk about a rupture, a shattering of the Republican Party — and if Trump wins the nomination, there will be a third-party run — you think a lot of that is overblown?
RUSH: I do, but, look: I’m rarely wrong, but it could be. There might be a third party. I just think that the realization that Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party pose the greatest threat to our future — children, grandchildren, all of that — is gonna bring everybody back to reality. The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing, either, in and of itself. This… Chris, this is real.
This is not a phase. It’s not a temper tantrum. The average, ordinary American — who I believe makes this country work — thinks the Republican Party is actually oriented against its interests, and does not understand or believe the crisis they think the country’s in. So the party will not be healed by any of this. But I think clear heads will prevail, and the correct enemy will be identified — political enemy will be identified — and efforts will come together to defeat whoever it is they throw up. Democrats, I mean.