RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): My objective -- and I've said it I don't know how many times -- the objective here throughout this whole campaign, wherever we end up, is to beat Hillary Clinton. And that's what motivates me, animates me, informs me, and energizes me. That's where this is all headed. Everything else is a distraction. It's all got to be about beating Hillary Clinton. Whoever the nominee is, you don't have any control over it, I don't have any control over it. Nobody else does. Yet we all try to do what we can to bend and shape things end up the way we want them.
So we have a -- this is -- what happened -- you may not look at it this way, but I'm telling you in terms of the presidential election in November, what happened last night on MSNBC is huge. It is huge and if you don't recognize it because you're so opposed to Trump and you're dissuaded by Trump, and you're so angry or -- what happened last night is major in a damaging way, in a hugely damaging way. Because what happened last night was -- you know if any cross overs, Democrats thinking of crossing over, here comes this war on women thing. Last night, this was -- and it needn't of happened. It's all based on a phony premise, a phony hypothetical question based on a reality that will never be reality. But the ammunition that gave Democrats last night, I can't tell you how it's rejuvenated them.
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It's a major, major problem. I'm simply trying to explain to people what it was and how it happened in a small way to try to diminish the effectiveness of it for the Democrats. You think I'm defending Trump. You think I'm not helping Cruz. What I'm trying to do is limit the damage that's done to us and to prevent the Democrats getting a big score out of it. Because my whole point here is to defeat Democrats, defeat liberalism. That's the destructive force. This thing that happened, you might not want to hear an hour and a half about it, but I'm telling you what happened last night was huge in terms of rejuvenating the Democrats. They were moribund, they were falling asleep, they were depressed. They don't have a candidate that they can give a damn about. They're excited not at all. Their turnout is nothing. Now they're energized. I'm simply trying to do what little I can to limit the damage of what happened last night.
