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RUSH: Steven in Newington, Connecticut. Thank you, sir. You\u2019re up first today. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a privilege to talk to you, Rush, a privilege to be first.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is simple. If Trump is able to pull off the nomination — and I\u2019m a Cruz supporter — do you think that they could possibly make amends where Cruz could take Scalia\u2019s place, which would be a logical transition for Cruz. Your thoughts on that and, you know, would that change the power of the Senate and the whole picture if that did happen? And would McConnell actually invoke the nuclear option in order to get him through the Senate committee?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s take the first thing first here, and that is Cruz agreeing to drop out in exchange for a promise by Trump to name him to the Supreme Court, fill the Scalia vacancy. That has been —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw that speculated upon last night. There\u2019s some people actually hoping that happens. Not Cruz fans. There\u2019s some people hoping it happens because they don\u2019t think Cruz is gonna win and they want Cruz involved, think he\u2019d be great up there. The answer to the question is, I mean, Trump doubled down today on Cruz. You know, Cruz had to fire Rick Tyler. Well, he fired Rick Tyler. Whether he had to or not, that\u2019s even up for debate, but Tyler, you know what happened on this — and this is really crazy. You talk about a dirty trick. And this is one that Cruz guys fell for.<\/line><\/p>\n

Apparently in a hotel lobby Cruz\u2019s dad and some people are sitting around and Rubio goes walking by and sees that they\u2019re reading a Bible. Somebody\u2019s videoing this. And they close caption it before they circulate the video saying that Rubio, pointing out at the Bible, said, “You won\u2019t find any answers in there.” And Rick Tyler was presented that video (imitating Tyler), “Oh, my God, God, it\u2019s a gold mine, it\u2019s a godsend,” and went with it. And it turned out to be a setup, that Rubio had not said that. In fact, he had said the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d said: “All the answers are in there,” and then even quoted a chapter and verse. And then the news went out that Tyler, communications director for Cruz, had run the video and had to apologize for it. Cruz asked for his resignation. Even if it had happened the way it was presented to Tyler, Cruz says we wouldn\u2019t do anything like that, that\u2019s not who we are. So Tyler, who was good, Tyler is a good communications guy, been watching him on TV, does good things for Cruz, he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

And Trump, who has just been nailing Cruz unmercifully, every day Cruz is a worse liar than he was the day before. He\u2019s a nasty, nasty guy. He\u2019s a liar. This guy, he holds the Bible up when he lies. I\u2019ve never met a guy lying like that. And then with this incident he\u2019s now all over Cruz for scapegoating his poor communications director. Trump\u2019s out there saying essentially this is Cruz\u2019s fault. That\u2019s the people he\u2019s got working for him. It\u2019s his mistake. He stupidly fell for this trick and now he\u2019s blaming his guy, making his guy fall on the sword.<\/p>\n

My point to you is, Steven, Trump has gone so far in insulting Cruz in terms of his integrity and character. I don\u2019t know how he turns around and nominates him for the Supreme Court. Now, I know that it\u2019s politics and stranger things have happened and it probably wouldn\u2019t be much to mend the fences, you know, mutual acknowledgments that might have been comments that went beyond the pale, but we all know what was going on, it wasn\u2019t meant personally.<\/line><\/p>\n

I guess it could happen, but, boy, it would be a huge, huge turnaround. But beyond that Cruz is not gonna get out of this race and he\u2019s certainly not gonna get out of the race on a promise that he\u2019s gonna be a Supreme Court nominee. So he\u2019s gonna play this out. He\u2019s still got Texas and the rest of SEC and Super Tuesday to go and thinks that there\u2019s still a chance. So it\u2019s one of these ideas that pops up as the intelligentsia in politics starts filling what I call downtime or blank time between primaries, between elections. By the way, the Nevada caucus for the Republicans is today, and you can\u2019t find this in the news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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