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RUSH: Abbey in Gainesville, Florida. It\u2019s great to have you. You\u2019re next. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. I\u2019m a first-time voter and actually a college student, and I\u2019m voting for Cruz. And my main reason why I\u2019m not voting for Trump is because he encourages people to break the law, like encouraging violence at his rallies. I just… I think it\u2019s very immature and kind of thuggish. So that\u2019s my main thing against him, is that he\u2019s encouraging people to be violent, and I don\u2019t agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me… I\u2019m going to take the occasion of your call to say something here about both men. Because it\u2019s not good for people on our side of the aisle to start harboring opinions of our two front-runners here that may not be entirely accurate. I understand the nature of competition. And the Cruz people want desperately to win, and the Trump people desperately want to win. And within the framework of this competition, obviously, critical things are going to be said. I know both these guys, and I know both of them very well. <\/p>\n

Folks, I just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart. First off, for those of you Cruz people who think that Trump is some thug, he\u2019s not. The “encouraging violence” thing is a little bit of an exaggeration of a couple of things that happened at some of the early Trump rallies that were largely symbolic. You have to understand this is one of the things that put Trump on the map. People on our side are fed up with having life dictated to us by public agitators and protesters who are not legitimate. <\/line><\/p>\n

They come in for one purpose, and that\u2019s to interrupt, disrupt. They don\u2019t have a legitimate grievance. They\u2019re faking it. They\u2019re nothing but a bunch of bullies themselves, and Trump was not going to surrender his events to them. He simply wasn\u2019t. In some faux sense of politeness or tolerance, he was not going to surrender his event to these people. Donald Trump is a… You would love him living in your neighborhood. You would love him if he were one of your friends. He is a nice guy, but he\u2019s committed, and he\u2019s driven, and he\u2019s confident.<\/p>\n

And many people assume, from that, that he is arrogant. Some people assume that people like that are intolerant, that they\u2019re know-it-alls or what have you. But if you would spend any time around Trump, you would enjoy yourself. You\u2019d be laughing, and you would have a good time. You might think some things are beyond the pale or what have you, but he\u2019s not a bad guy. And, by the same token, on the other side, I really am uncomfortable with what some of the Trump people think of Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is…<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how else to say it. He\u2019s wholesome. He is solid. He is an excellent citizen. He\u2019s possessed of incredible dignity and integrity. He\u2019s not a cheater. And, by the same token, if Cruz lived in your neighborhood, it\u2019d be a great neighborhood, and you\u2019d be happy to have him in your neighborhood. You\u2019d be happy to have Cruz as one of your friends. He may seem stiff to some people because of the way he appears on the campaign trail, but both of these people are okay people. They\u2019re nice people. They\u2019re nice guys. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re driven in their own ways, and both of them are profoundly preferable to Hillary Clinton. You want to talk about negative characteristics and personality traits? Gaming, cheating, this kind of thing? I mean, that is the name of the game for the entire Clinton machine. What they have is a political machine, and it takes no prisoners. And they are in it for the express purpose of maximizing as much personal gain as they can out of it while at the same time altering the status quo in this country in a negative way for the most people. <\/line><\/p>\n

They are elitists, and they\u2019re just not… You wouldn\u2019t, I don\u2019t think, fully trust them or their organization. But when it comes to Cruz, you have a deeply religious, committed family man. He believes in God; he lives his life accordingly. These are not bad guys. These are not bad people. And it\u2019s kind of part and parcel of campaigns that you have these kind of negative attacks, critical things said about people. But you can rely on the fact that when all this is done, these are people that you would not mind being around at all.<\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t mind them having some role in your life, be it friendship, member of your church, or what have you. But they\u2019re both in a pretty heated competition here for the most powerful job in the world. And there are certain things that you have to do, certain requirements that you have to do to achieve this job, to win. It\u2019s what it takes to win this job, and it\u2019s something most people wouldn\u2019t even subject themselves to. Most people wouldn\u2019t even enter this arena. <\/p>\n

Most people wouldn\u2019t be able to take one-tenth of the criticism that you get and remain smiling and have an upbeat and positive attitude. Most people wouldn\u2019t want to get anywhere near it. And so you have to make — I don\u2019t know — allowances for various things that might happen that seem to be extreme in the heat of a campaign. But you can, I think, rest assured that we\u2019re not talking about bad people here. Not in my estimation, anyway. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scott in Ohio, great to have you with us. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh, thank you for taking my call. It\u2019s a privilege to talk to you. I had a question. I\u2019m a little curious as to, it seems like your attitude towards Trump and his supporters has changed as of late. And a prime example yesterday to me was, you had callers calling in, you know, many of which are complaining about the whining of Trumpists, if you want to call \u2019em that, and Trump himself about delegates. And in the next breath, seemingly, you praise Trump for exposing what is a corrupt delegate system. So I sense a bit of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, I don\u2019t think that the delegate system is corrupt. My opinion of Trump and Trump voters has never changed. I like Donald Trump. I\u2019m fascinated by his campaign. I have studied it. I think I\u2019ve spent more time than anybody, seriously, that\u2019s not a professional sociologist, trying to understand it. It fascinates me. I hope it\u2019s huge. I wonder how big it is. I wonder how much bigger it can get. <\/line><\/p>\n

There are a lot of things about the Trump campaign that intrigue me, and I\u2019m sure they intrigue everybody else, and one of them is he\u2019s not a professional politician, an outsider. This stuff\u2019s not supposed to be possible. The insiders will tell you this is not supposed to be possible. The consultants, the professional consultants, both parties, they\u2019re chewing their fingernails down to the quick over this, because this is not supposed to be possible. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t supposed to happen. Guy\u2019s not supposed to be able to self-fund; you\u2019re not supposed to be able to do this without donors; you\u2019re not supposed to be able to do this without advisors and TV ads and consultants running the campaign and so forth. And Trump voters and what they represent, look, I think the future of this country rests with the people. And I have great faith in the people of this country. I still think a majority of the people in this country are appalled at so much of what is happening to our culture. <\/p>\n

I think they\u2019re fed up with it, but they have been not represented. And whenever they do speak up, they\u2019re shouted down and they\u2019re mocked and they\u2019re made fun of and they\u2019re ridiculed into silence. So somebody\u2019s come along and speaks up for them who refuses to be silenced, that they applaud. I understand it all. But I don\u2019t think the delegate selection process is corrupt. Not as it\u2019s being used here. <\/p>\n

Now, look, I\u2019m not saying politics isn\u2019t corrupt. I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s not vote fraud that takes place on Election Day. But what we\u2019re talking about here in the way these delegates are being chosen, the way they\u2019re selected and the way they\u2019re assigned, there isn\u2019t any corruption. There\u2019s just a contest. And Trump has had his own way of going about getting these delegates. Cruz has had his. <\/line><\/p>\n

Cruz is at a — look, you\u2019re gonna misunderstand this. But I\u2019m gonna say it — he\u2019s at a disadvantage. He\u2019s losing. He\u2019s only got one option open to him. And that\u2019s winning on a second or third ballot. That\u2019s all he can do right now. And so he\u2019s doing what\u2019s necessary to win, should that eventuate. Trump wants to win it without ever there being a second ballot, and he\u2019s trying to pull that off now. And he\u2019s going about it in his own way. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re competing for the same thing, but not in the same way, because Trump can win it in ways that Cruz can\u2019t. Trump can win it in both ways, but Cruz only has one way. That\u2019s the best I can do to explain it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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