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RUSH: Rex in Penns Creek, Pennsylvania. Great to have you on the program. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, good talking to you. Mega dittos from Steelers country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I had a commented sort of along the line of the last caller. I\u2019m a Ted Cruz supporter. I saw a couple of weeks ago that Ted Cruz said that if Trump were to get out of the race, then he thinks that he would get the lion\u2019s share of Trump\u2019s supporters. I just wanted your opinion on that. I found it interesting, the way that Cruz has treated Trump. He\u2019s almost gone out of his way not to attack him. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s because of Cruz\u2019s style and character or if it\u2019s a political calculation. And I actually think that Cruz probably is, in many ways, the most similar candidate that we have in the GOP to Trump, even though there are obviously other stark contrasts.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think Trump is gonna get out of the race?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I thought —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was just… And I\u2019m not necessarily anti-Trump. I would put him about fourth on my list. But I was just… The article that I saw actually on Ted Cruz\u2019s Facebook page, it quoted him as saying that he thought that he would get most of the Trump supporters at that time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think… Again, just off the cuff here. I\u2019ve not spoken to Ted Cruz about this. But you\u2019re right. Cruz has refrained from joining the crowd piling on Trump. And I do think it\u2019s strategic, because I think Ted Cruz sees himself as the Donald Trump of the Republican Party. He\u2019s an outsider inside. He has hit them and hit them hard, as though he is an outsider, even though he\u2019s in the Senate, is an elected Republican.<\/p>\n

And I think he thinks that he is probably in the same vein as Trump and is not exactly running a similar kind of campaign, but is occupying the same place. I\u2019ve seen stories, too — I forget where and I don\u2019t remember authorship — that some people think Cruz would be the natural heir to the Trump constituency if Trump ever got out. That talk is gonna have to stop at some point, Trump getting out. And I know you said you didn\u2019t say that. <\/line><\/p>\n

Trump is building his lead and Carson is staying right with him, and then the lower tier is fluid. The whole thing remains fluid, and the reason it does is because of Trump. Trump is clearly running the daily news cycle of the Republican presidential campaign. The media is not. And that is another reason why there is overwhelming support for Trump, is that he\u2019s running the agenda. He\u2019s in charge of it, he\u2019s putting the media through hoops, and he\u2019s the first candidate on the Republican side that\u2019s coming along and been able to do this.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of Ted Cruz fans, and they\u2019ve been curious why Trump — Cruz (I\u2019m sorry to conflate them) — why Cruz hasn\u2019t done better in the polls than he is, and it\u2019s because Trump has come along and basically occupies that position, but he genuinely is an outsider. Anyway, I\u2019m up against it on time here so I have to interrupt myself. But, Rex, I appreciate the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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