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RUSH: Hey, folks, how are you? You know, I\u2019m old enough to remember when people said, “Go ahead! Go ahead and vote for Bill Clinton! Things can\u2019t get any worse. You go ahead and vote for Bill Clinton. Let\u2019s show everybody how rotten the Democrats are. You elect Bill Clinton. You vote for him. You vote for Clinton and we\u2019ll finally demonstrate for the people what a bunch of rotguts the Democrats are!” Now, the people that used to say that are average, ordinary voters. Today, it\u2019s the Republican establishment saying it!<\/p>\n


\nIt seems like every election there is somebody out there saying, “Go ahead! You vote for the Clintons,” and every time we did it, it\u2019s supposed to demonstrate to the people how rotten and horrible the country becomes when the Democrats run it. I\u2019ve been doing this for 27 years and that refrain has been heard in every election. And could we say here that with the election of Obama, and after two terms of Bill Clinton, the country\u2019s not getting the message on how bad the Democrats running the country is?<\/p>\n

Some of the country is, obviously, but they keep getting elected. Anyway, folks, great to have you here. We are gonna do a major dissection today. Everybody is bursting with all kinds of questions. Ted Cruz getting out last night was a shock to a lot of people. They weren\u2019t expecting it. Apparently the decision was made by Senator Cruz long before Trump came up with his Lee Harvey Oswald comment<\/a>. I\u2019m not saying that isn\u2019t a factor, don\u2019t misunderstand here. This is gonna be one of those programs that you\u2019re gonna want to spend the entire three hours here with us.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re just loaded and there\u2019s a whole lot of things that I want to say and get into, and I don\u2019t want to try to have to pack it all here into this opening segment. I got so many emails. “You know, you\u2019re gonna have the biggest audience maybe you\u2019ve ever had tomorrow.” And then people tell you, “Oh, wow! Okay, you better pack it all in the opening segment!” I\u2019m not gonna even try to do that this time. It can\u2019t be done, and I don\u2019t want to do it in bullet-point or headline fashion. Plus, I\u2019m curious to know what some of you think happened.<\/p>\n

What went wrong (if you think it did go wrong) and why you\u2019re happy if you are. What you think the future holds, and how many of you really never thought that Trump was gonna get the nomination, but you didn\u2019t really work against it. You were kind of fascinated by it. You really didn\u2019t think this day was gonna come, and then you watch Ted Cruz drop out last night and you\u2019re shocked and you\u2019re stunned and you can\u2019t believe it, because somewhere in the back of your mind all along has been this thought.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It may be comforting to some, to others just a thought, that Trump\u2019s not gonna really do this. “When you get to the end of this, it isn\u2019t gonna be Trump,” and now it is. I mean, I think the number and the types of reactions out there are infinite, and the attitudes about the future are multifaceted as well. We\u2019re gonna explore here what happened, why it happened, what went wrong, where do we go from here, what does this all mean. But again, folks, I can\u2019t do this in one show, can\u2019t do it in the opening segment certainly.<\/p>\n

But — and this is not a trick or a hook to get you to listen to all three hours, \u2019cause you do anyway \u2019cause it\u2019s a good show. I just… I don\u2019t want anybody laboring under the false impression that whatever I say here in the opening segment is it, \u2019cause it isn\u2019t gonna be. I\u2019m sure that those of you who get through today on the phones are gonna inspire things that I think and haven\u2019t even realized yet, which is really what makes a great caller. By the way, our phone number: 800-282-2882. I didn\u2019t know Cruz gonna drop out.<\/p>\n

I had no inside advance information. I read Byron York today,<\/a> who did a little bit of a postmortem on what went wrong, and the basic element is that Cruz just lost too many elections prior to Indiana that he chose to sit out too many states like New Hampshire. He didn\u2019t put full-force effort, as opposed to Trump who sought to just win every state. Just blanket, shotgun the country. Win every state. Appear to be competing in every state. That created momentum, constant media presence. It doesn\u2019t even count the media loving putting Trump on.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s… Trump forced him his way into this. He forced the media coverage, even though the media loved covering him. Too many states that Cruz sat out in that Northeastern sweep just a couple of weeks ago, that Trump won every county in five states. In Byron York\u2019s opinion, you just can\u2019t lose like that and expect to go to the next state and sweep it. You just… It\u2019s unreal expectations. People want to vote for winners. You know, losing is one thing. Landslide losses are another thing.<\/p>\n

Even if it is the Northeast and you\u2019re not expected to do well. Even if it is New York where you\u2019re not expected to do well. People don\u2019t want to vote for somebody that\u2019s not expected to do well some places. They want to vote for somebody they think is gonna win. So that\u2019s just one theory. I\u2019m just sharing it sharing it with you. York also does have some insider information that Cruz had made his decision to get out even before Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

And if you knew that Cruz was gonna get out and you listen to everything that Cruz said and did on Tuesday, it makes total sense. He unloads on be Fox News, unloads on Ailes, unloads on Murdoch, unloads on Trump, just gets it all off of his chest. And then here comes Trump on Fox & Friends with the Lee Harvey Oswald comment. That might have been the icing on the cake, but Byron York\u2019s point is that the decision had been made long before that. I\u2019m watching Cruz last night with his acceptance — acceptance! — his exit speech.<\/p>\n