{"id":4080,"date":"2016-02-26T17:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:33:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-26T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:33:17","slug":"cruz_exposed_trump_s_biggest_weakness_in_a_race_against_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/26\/cruz_exposed_trump_s_biggest_weakness_in_a_race_against_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Exposed Trump\u2019s Biggest Weakness in a Race Against Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: In terms of substance? I disagree with Chris Wallace. I think there was substance in this debate last night, and depending on what you want — depending on what you were hoping to see and then what you think going forward — there\u2019s really only one candidate in this debate last night which was chock-full of genuine policy-oriented substance, and that was Cruz. And I happen to know, folks…<\/p>\n

I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones. But there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn\u2019t know much about what all this is about, that he\u2019s getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that people get excited by and attach to. There have been people who say, “We\u2019ve gotta expose Trump. Trump\u2019s gotta be exposed. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. He doesn\u2019t know conservatism.<\/p>\n

“He doesn\u2019t know policy. He\u2019s just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense.” So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that. If that\u2019s what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night. And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is, one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is he\u2019s not really even a Republican. And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons.<\/line><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s response was, “Hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I\u2019m in business, and there are certain things you have to do to get things done. You have to work with these people. But I\u2019m a Republican.” And he\u2019s made it clear, and he\u2019s tried to make that point over and over again. But Trump found last night Ted Cruz illustrating that. (summarized) “Look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump\u2019s not the guy to do it. Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.<\/p>\n

“He has donated. All that would have to happen,” Cruz says, “is for Trump to hit Hillary in the debate and Hillary, and all she\u2019s gotta do is say, ‘Donald, I don\u2019t know what your problem is. You donated to me to do this exact thing. So I don\u2019t know what your problem is now.'” And Cruz said, “We can\u2019t nominate somebody who donated to her.” It\u2019s akin to the people that said we shouldn\u2019t nominate Romney. “If we nominate Romney, there\u2019s no way we can get Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

“Romney gave us Romneycare, and the guy that wrote Romneycare then turned around and wrote Obamacare,” and it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney\u2019s concerned. He couldn\u2019t hit it because there\u2019s a retort, “What do you mean you don\u2019t like Obamacare? You wrote its father. You implemented and signed into law its father, Romneycare. What are you?” And Cruz\u2019s point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur.<\/p>\n

Because it can be demonstrated that Trump\u2019s donations to the Clintons over the years — including to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation — have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made. So the people who have wanted Trump exposed, that was pretty substantively done by Cruz. On the Rubio side, what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night, literally made fun of him, mock him. Not act frightened or afraid of him, and not be worried about ticking off his supporters, either. <\/p>\n

A first for both.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, that\u2019s true. The Telemundo lady last night, the moderator — again, her name was Maria Celeste Arraras, and she only asked one question of everybody, and it really wasn\u2019t a question. She\u2019d make a speech about Hispanics and illegal immigration and how they go together and how they\u2019re inseparable and then say, “Don\u2019t you get it?” And then the candidate would answer. She\u2019d get frustrated, go to the next candidate, and repeat her claim. This woman had… Her questions went longer than the allotted 30 seconds the guys got to answer. <\/p>\n