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RUSH: Thirteen specific instances Cruz says that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are identical, policy-wise. We spent a lot of time talking today about Trump coming off this amazing — every county, Trump won every county in five states. <\/p>\n

“Well, I know, Rush, but what do you expect? The Northeast are a bunch of liberal Republicans.” Yeah, yeah, but nobody ever forecast winning 60% of the vote. Remember, at this point when all these other people were out of the race other than Kasich, it was supposed to be Trump and his 35% of the vote and all the other Republican votes were gonna coalesce behind Cruz. Now, that might not manifest itself in these Northeastern states, but nobody, nobody predicted these kind of margins. <\/p>\n

In fact, the conventional wisdom yesterday was exactly what I told you, that it was pretty much expected what was gonna happen. It wasn\u2019t gonna change things because it was already known. Trump\u2019s gonna win these five states, the delegates that he\u2019s gonna get are already factored into the count, so there\u2019s nothing new really that\u2019s gonna come out of this, and in fact that was turned upside down. All kinds of new was learned. Five states, every county, margins of victory, huge turnout. There isn\u2019t any evidence here in these five states — granted, they\u2019re Northeastern liberal states where you wouldn\u2019t expect Cruz to do well, but isn\u2019t that in and itself a factor? <\/p>\n

The point is that with all the other candidates out of the race, the Cruz theory was that during all these primaries Trump was getting 30, 35% of the vote, which meant 60 to 65% of the Republican primary vote was for somebody other than Trump. So if those guys would all get out and leave it just Cruz versus Trump, then Cruz would start sailing. Well, Kasich kind of got in the way by not getting out. But it hasn\u2019t happened. And Indiana is where everybody is looking for maybe it to happen. Indiana is supposedly an ideal state for Cruz. So we\u2019ll see. <\/line><\/p>\n

But we spent a lot of time talking about Trump because of that, and there are some things about Cruz, we want to spread it around a little bit here, and Cruz is, as part of his message, trying to alert people, “Hey, Trump is not really one of us. He\u2019s not even really a Republican, you know, he\u2019s fooling everybody. He and Hillary, they practically agree on everything,” and here\u2019s three sound bites, the first of three, last night in Indiana at the Hoosier gym at a campaign event. Here\u2019s Cruz specifying the first of 13 instances where Trump and Hillary agree on things.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: I\u2019m gonna walk you through 13 policy issues where Donald and Hillary have the very same views. Donald and Hillary both agree that our taxes should be increased. Donald and Hillary both support the Obamacare individual mandates. Donald and Hillary believe that illegal immigrants who are here should be able to become US citizens. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both support taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both supported Bill Clinton\u2019s national ban on many of the most important firearms in America. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both believe we should negotiate with Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats on Supreme Court nominations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course people in the crowd, boo, boo, boo. Now, just as an aside, Mr. Snerdley, are there other ways of saying what Cruz said here that, in your mind, might have been more effective? Or does this stuff not matter? Some of it does matter but some of it doesn\u2019t. Well, let\u2019s go through these. He says, “Donald and Hillary both agree that our taxes should be increased.” <\/p>\n

Okay. Hillary definitely does, and Trump has said that he thinks that the rich aren\u2019t paying enough, that he\u2019s gonna raise taxes on the rich. Okay. The hedge fund guys. Yeah, he\u2019s talking about carried interest, which if people had that explained to \u2019em, they\u2019d be fit to be tied. They\u2019d be demanding that be fixed. Why should the hedge fund guys be paying 15%, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n