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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your undocumented anger man, Mark Stein sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Donald Trump gave me an H1B visa on Thursday night and then took it back and tased me into submission two hours later.
	We are live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	Mr. Snerdley is running the show direct from New York City.
	It's a beautiful, beautiful snowy March day here in the North Country.
	Yeah, the snow is the snow is coming down fast.
	It's uh it's covering it it's it's like uh two-thirds of the way up all the Jeb 2016 signs still uh left in the snowbanks after after last month.
	It's very touching, very touching looking at the snow creeping up over the last couple of exposed inches of Jeb Bush signery.
	Uh Rush is out today fulfilling an annual charity commitment.
	He's extremely uh generous like that and a man of honor.
	Uh even on a political weekend with lots of developments, uh he's busting to talk about with you.
	Uh but he was on Fox News Sunday yesterday, and uh I hope you saw that, because uh he had lots of interesting things to say.
	We'll we'll uh talk about some of those things uh a little later.
	He will be back himself for authentic full strength all-American excellence in broadcasting tomorrow.
	In the meantime, a sinister foreigner's perspective on those weekend developments, and much more importantly, your take on what's happening.
	1-800-282-2882 is the number to call uh for uh Cruz fans, Trump fans, uh Rubio fans, and Kasich fans.
	Uh none of those people are speaking to each other, so we may have to do it like C-SPAN and break it down into uh liberal and conservative uh lines.
	But for the moment you can all use the same phone number 1 800-282-2882.
	In the midst of uh all these ructions about where the GOP's headed, we were reminded yesterday of the last man to change the party's direction, uh Ronald Reagan.
	Uh Nancy Reagan died yesterday at the uh grand age of uh ninety-four.
	She was a gracious and elegant first lady and her husband's rock for over half a century.
	She adored him and he adored her.
	And when they were out together, they held hands like uh like teenagers, and when they weren't together, uh when affairs of state kept them apart for a day or two, he felt her absence uh keenly.
	Uh, you know, when you talk to to Reagan insiders, almost all of them uh agree that the president was uh something of a loner, not a he wasn't a big buddy buddy guy, and the showbiz pals, all the Bob Hopes and Frank Sinatras were were more her set.
	Um he was a man who was at ease by himself, he was comfortable by himself, and really the one person, the only person uh he ever needed uh was uh was Nancy.
	And they didn't enjoy the retirement they expected to have, and uh the long twilight fade of his final decade must have been uh must have been tough on her.
	She said, um you look forward to walking down memory lane and then find you have to do it alone.
	And uh and so she did with grace and dignity.
	A long life, well lived, and she is in a better place with the man she loved.
	I I don't know how much attention uh she'd been paying uh to this election cycle, but if she did, um she must surely have been struck by the way today's Republican Party has entirely modified Reagan's eleventh commandment.
	Thou shalt do nothing but speak ill of other Republicans.
	Cruise supporters loathe Trump, and Rubio supporters loathe Cruz, and Trump supporters loathe Romney.
	Uh and they all listen to this show.
	And perhaps most remarkably, I I've just been uh in Australia for a few weeks, and I I landed back and been trying to bring myself up to speed.
	Most remarkably, uh which is something I can't really recall precedence for.
	Uh the establishment, the GOP establishment loathes the voters to the point where on all the talk shows now, they're full of strategies that will essentially render six Months and millions and millions of votes entirely meaningless.
	So we're going to try and break it down objectively over the next three hours here, without all this you're dead to me, and you'll never work in this town again, all this hyper queenery that's making the Conservative movement sound like bitchy waiters in Coconut Grove after uh John Kerry's uh sent back the Aubergine Cooley on a bed of arugula.
	It's uh m amazing to uh listen to people.
	The Daily Call had a terrific piece the other day saying that can Trump has turned conservatives into social justice warriors.
	Um it's now all the this high sti hysteria and apostasy tests uh and uh uh and purity tests and and enemies lists.
	You m you make one bad judgment.
	Um there's this guy, uh uh Mark Antonio Wright at National Review did a piece uh I think it was uh on Saturday, archiving the Trump endorsers Hall of Shame.
	He's compiling a list, an enemies list.
	He's making a list and checking it twice.
	This guy, Mark Antonio Wright, I don't know um uh uh who uh how big a deal he is at National Review.
	I think he's an editor or something there.
	But but he's making a list of people who've given support to Trump, such as Senator Jeff Sections of Alabama and Chris Christie and the main governor, Paul uh LePage, and he's uh compiling this enemy's list and he's saying we won't forget, we're not gonna forget.
	Uh so conservatives are trying turned into social justice warriors.
	They're like uh the fellas who tracked down that hundred dollar donation uh that the Mozilla guy gave to uh gave to a a campaign in support of traditional marriage and they forced him out of this job.
	We th that's what's happening now.
	So the pajama boy, whichever the whoever this pajama boy is over at National Review is compiling the enemy's list.
	But if you missed the weekend primaries, uh just to bring you up to speed, the small-handed con artist won Kentucky and Louisiana, the Lion Canadian won Kansas and Maine, and the little sweaty guy won Puerto Rico.
	So the upshot of the weekend is basically this.
	No one can win.
	No one.
	Uh no one.
	So before we get into political philosophy, wither conservatism and all the rest of it, let's just get the horse racy stuff out of the way here.
	Um the problem here is uh Donald Trump, uh, the guy who wrote the Art of the Deal has failed to close the deal.
	Uh he should be farther ahead than he is by now.
	Uh, and the fact that he isn't uh uh weakens the best argument for rejecting the so-called elite and establishment.
	Basically, the the the quickest way to put a nail through this thing would be for him to rack up enough delegates so that all this talk about brokered conventions became irrelevant.
	Um but there are two views on this.
	One is that he's slipping.
	He won Louisiana and Kentucky very narrowly, uh, mainly uh due to uh that's to say they were much narrower victories than the polls suggested, and that's due to the fact that uh uh mainly due to early voting, where he had a big lead, and then actual come the come voting day itself, uh late voters went uh for Ted Cruz, basically.
	So so there's two views of this.
	Either he's he's slipping, we've reached peak Trump and he's now on the slide, or he spent the last couple of weeks taking incoming like nobody's taken, and he's still standing, which uh there's a case for.
	I mean, we basically had the previous two nominees of the Republican Party, McCain and Romney, uh have both done direct assaults on him and his character and his integrity, and he's still winning primaries.
	So there's enough of a vote for for him to hold up and to stay in the lead and to be the choice of a plurality of Republican voters.
	Uh but if he's gonna win this thing, if he's gonna put it in the pocket, the fact is he has to win fifty-eight percent of the remaining delegates.
	Um and he can't and and as much as I don't think Romney hurt him.
	I think if anything, in fact, Romney reminded people of everything they dislike about the Republican establishment.
	Essentially, he hurt himself with that debate performance on Thursday.
	Um, you know, he's not gonna win fifty-eight percent of the remaining delegates talking about his penis and about Little Marco and Lion Ted.
	Um so Trump's campaign is at risk of going the way of uh, you know, Trump airlines and Trump mortgage and Atlantic City.
	He talks about how huge and spectacular it is.
	But right now, uh it's slowing down.
	Uh who does that leave?
	That leaves Ted Cruz.
	He's up over three hundred delegates, which sounds great because he's within eighty or whatever it is of Trump.
	But without Super Tuesday, he was supposed to win all the big evangelical vote on Tuesday, uh win the big Southern states, and he didn't.
	He won Texas and Oklahoma and Alaska.
	Didn't win any of the uh uh the old South.
	And uh that means that he is to win sixty-four percent of remaining delegates, or if uh if Rubio wins Florida or or uh John Kasich wins Ohio, Cruz has to win seventy-two per cent.
	Seventy-two per cent of the remaining delegates.
	Okay.
	Who's that leave?
	That leaves Marco Rubio.
	Marco Rubio, the establishment choice, the guy with broad appeal, the the only fellow who can take it to Hillary, and Hillary's the most scared of running about because he's from he's optimistic, he's young, he's pretty, he's promising a new American century, uh, and all that is worth eight percent in Maine.
	He placed fourth in Maine, eight percent of the vote.
	But don't not to worry, because on Sunday, Marco Rubio won his first primary in Puerto Rico.
	Uh so I think that shows he's pretty well set up for all the other Spanish speaking territories that are coming up in the next few weeks.
	Like uh, I don't know, Puerto Puerto, Idaho, isn't that coming up this week?
	Uh at any rate, the Republican is this is hilarious.
	You couldn't actually ask for a better illustration of the uh stupidity of the Republican establishment.
	He's now the anointed establishment candidate, and the Republican establishment, after losing everywhere, after after losing to Ted Cruz in Texas uh and uh l losing uh to Trump in uh in Louisiana and and New Hampshire, and uh the Republican establishment has finally found its firewall in Puerto Rico.
	Um I think it was uh Milton uh Himelfab who who was the first guy to say that Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.
	Uh but it turns out in fact that that's that's the GOP establishment.
	They earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.
	Seventy two percent of Puerto Ricans voted for Marco Rubio.
	Uh and this is the genius of the Republican Party now.
	Uh they have had their the the Republican Party's supposedly most electable candidate, the GOP establishment's most electable candidate, has his only success uh in a place that doesn't actually get to vote for president.
	The symbolism of that is almost uh too poignant for words.
	Uh you know, Marco Rubio has taken the weakness of Dole, McCain, and Romney to a whole new level.
	He's only competitive in non-voting territories.
	He gets seventy-five percent in Puerto Rico and eight percent in Maine.
	That's that's brilliant.
	If we could hold a primary where else doesn't get to vote, uh uh Guam Guam, we could g Guam is a territory, uh so we don't know how the Guam vote is gonna.
	We could make some more if we really want to put Rubio over the edge.
	Let's just make some more places, US territory.
	Oh, there's the US Virgin Islands.
	I don't think that'll be enough.
	We might have to throw in the British Virgin Islands.
	Could could we declare them an honorary territory?
	Uh yeah, I don't know, Tajikistan.
	How do they feel about Rubio?
	They they could be a Samoa, I'd like to see Samoa Samoa, as the old song said.
	We we've run out of we've won uh that's American Samoa.
	There's a British Samoa uh and they don't uh uh they don't we need some we need to get Samoa Samoas into the mix and that way Rubio's gonna have a chance.
	But basically, this is this is like a uh the old Bertolt Brecht line about how we need to elect a new people.
	The Republican establishment's strategy for victory is to uh for its most electable Candidate is non-voting territories.
	Territories that can't actually vote in November are where the establishment candidate has the greatest appeal.
	You can't get better than that.
	Mark Styder for Rush 1800-282-2882 in this fractious time as the Conservative Party and the Conservative Movement tears itself apart.
	Pick your sides, have at it.
	Lots to come bit between now and 3 PM Eastern.
	1 800 282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush in this interlude between the weekend primaries and the big night uh tomorrow.
	And it'd be interesting to see whether, uh, particularly with Michigan, whether the trend of the weekend uh continues.
	Uh what happened is if you recall Mitt Romney's line on Thursday, he said, reach your own conclusions if uh on who's the best anti-Trump in any of these states.
	So if you're in Florida, vote for Rubio, and if you're in Ohio, vote for Kasich, and in other places it might be that Ted Cruz is the best chance.
	And so far, Romney said that for one reason.
	Romney doesn't want to uh nominate anyone because he's doing this sort of coy little tap dance uh about how if a fractured party calls on him to serve uh in the convention, he w he will not refuse the crown.
	That's basically the Romney position.
	He's doing a lot of like uh tap dancing around the question, and he's being in and and a bit disingenuous about it.
	But that is that is the reason he didn't endorse anyone.
	He said pick pick whoever you think is likely to weaken Trump.
	It's more important that Trump loses than that anybody else wins.
	And unfortunately for him, people took it uh at his word and concluded that uh Cruz is the guy.
	And Rubio Rubio is at nine percent in this poll in Michigan.
	This is absolutely this is absolutely ridiculous.
	He's the they they thought the the the donor class, the consultant industrial complex, decided that Marco Rubio was the successor to Jeb Bush.
	And he is.
	He's got all the endorsements, he's got all the mainstream support, and he's at nine percent in Michigan.
	Uh and that's really the the problem for all this brokered convention talk.
	The idea being that, you know, the party would be divided, and they would uh and and the establishment would decide uh, okay, we're gonna parachute in some great unifying moderate figure who can reach across the aisle, and Bob Dole 2016 would be all fired up and ready to go at the convention.
	And that isn't going to work because if you look at uh if you look at all the results over the weekend, basically, putting aside Puerto Rico, uh if you look at at uh Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, and Maine, uh Cruz and Trump got between 70 and 80% of the vote.
	Whatever you feel about the Cruise guys hate the Trump guys, the Trump guys hate the Cruise guys, uh, but uh the establishment hates both of them.
	And you can't tell 80% of your voters your votes don't count, and now we're gonna parachute in Mitt Romney or Bob Dole or whoever uh to save the day.
	That ain't gonna fly.
	So the idea that the brokered convention is somehow going to rescue the GOP establishment from what's happening is uh is getting less and less likely.
	Now we will be talking in the next hour.
	We will be talking to Matt Schlap, who's the big uh he was a Bush uh administration guy, and now he's the big honcho at CPAC, which is uh currently going on.
	Uh sometimes CPAC uh rush speaks at CPAC, he did memorably a few years ago, but uh not there uh this year round.
	So we're gonna talk instead to Matt Schlap, who's the head guy at CPAC uh about what the mood is there.
	Now that's an anti-Trump venue, basically, and more so because Trump pulled out of his weekend speech.
	He decided he was not going to speak at CPAC because there were all these protesters who were there basically uh who were going to use him for some sort of photo op process protests, and he figured nuts to that.
	I don't need that, I'm not gonna go along with that.
	Um but we will get down the breakdown, get the breakdown from Matt Schlap on the mood at CPAC and where the Republican Party goes from here.
	But uh just on those numbers, the numbers after the weekend.
	Uh it's gonna be very tough uh for any of these candidates to get to twelve thirty-seven.
	Trump has the best shot.
	If he wins Florida and he wins Ohio, uh Trump has the best shot at getting to twelve thirty-seven.
	And he can't complain about uh he should have realized, you know, essentially he's mounting a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, and he should have realized you've got to be on your game with that uh if you're gonna avoid what's happened to him in the last week.
	He bla he bears part of the blame for what's happened, and he's got to be on better form in the debates and in the primaries to come.
	Yes, America's anchor man is away, fulfilling a charity engagement.
	He was with uh Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday yesterday, and uh his uh view on Trump uh essentially was this.
	Uh it was an interesting lineup because Rush appeared at the top of the show, and then uh whatever it was at uh after Rush, they went to Mitt Romney, who had to sit there listening to what uh Rush was saying, which was not uh flattering to Romney, frankly.
	And Rush's view of Trump is that there's more upside than downside.
	There's more upside than downside.
	And I I saw that on the basis of that sound bite, Jennifer Rubin, who is the Conservative blogger at the Washington Post, uh now wants to uh and is talking to this guy.
	Do you remember this guy uh when I was here a few weeks ago we got into uh we were trying to get him on the show for something he'd said.
	This guy, Rick Wilson, he's one of these consultants.
	And uh we couldn't get hold of him.
	He was in a meeting or something.
	Uh he was in a meeting uh that lasted curiously from uh five minutes past twelve Eastern time to two fifty-nine PM Eastern time this meeting, so he wouldn't come on the show.
	But uh Rick Wilson quoted this slide from Rush that there's more upside than downside, said Rush is soiling his legacy, and Jennifer Rubin is now read people are reading people out of the conservative movement.
	They say Rush is not a conservative.
	Sean Hannity is not a conservative.
	Jeff Sessions is not a conservative.
	There's not gonna be any conservatives like this.
	This is the great there's gonna be Rick Wilson and Jennifer Rubin arguing in a big tent.
	Big tent conservatism.
	The reason the the reason uh the tent seems so big is because there ain't nobody in it.
	That's the problem.
	Look, uh conservatism and the Repu The Republican Party is a weak brand, a weak brand.
	American presidential elections have the lowest turnout of any uh national elections in the developed world, with one or two exceptions.
	Basically half the people don't vote.
	Uh when it gets to uh midterm elections, which in case you haven't noticed are the only ones that the Republican Party wins these days, you have even lower turnout, absolutely the lowest turnout for any national legislative election anywhere in the developed world.
	And even by uh American standards getting lower.
	Twenty fourteen had the lowest election turnout since the second world war, uh when uh the reason for two-thirds of the people not bothering to uh vote that back then, you know, a big chunk of them were on the other side of the planet up to their neck in muck and bullets.
	So the Republican Party has got a very weak brand, and they're currently spending they don't have many people in the big tent.
	The tent has spent most of the twenty-first century getting emptier.
	And we're now in this vicious fight about how many other people we can kick out of the tent.
	So Jennifer Rubin and Rick Wilson wanna kick Rush Limbaugh out of the tent.
	And uh this guy, uh this uh editor, whatever he is over at National Review wants to kick Jeff Sessions and Chris Christie out of the tent.
	And sooner or later it's you're gonna be uh have the world's biggest marquee, and you're gonna be standing there like uh somebody at the uh wedding who got stood up, and there just ain't nobody, nobody accepted the invitation.
	And you're all alone in the tent, nibbling the hors d'oeuvre all by yourself.
	Uh the the the Republican Party, uh all this oh you're not conservative.
	Rush Limbaugh, he's not conservative.
	What he's just some he's just some rhino wuss sellout.
	We can't have him in the tent.
	And Jeff Sessions, well, Jeff Sessions, we're not gonna have him in the tent.
	Okay?
	Okay, you're gonna need a much smaller tent.
	Uh we have uh there's the blame enough to go round for for everyone on this.
	Somebody said I didn't mention Kasich.
	I'd I'd I'd give them the state of play for for all the candidates, and I didn't mention John Kasich.
	And uh Mr. Snerdley is already on the floor Mr. Snodley is like weeping with laughter on the floor and horrified that we're gonna waste their time giving uh uh uh give it over to to John Kasich.
	Look, John John Kasich, he may well be the vice presidential nominee.
	Uh, you know it it yeah, yeah, no, I know he was he was uh is he was the son of a the only man who could never reach me was the son of a male man.
	That's the uh John Kasich official campaign theme.
	Rush mentioned this yeah, he's the only he's the only adult in the room is John Kasich, the only adult in the room, the last man on the stage.
	I didn't know what a man he was.
	Uh Rush was talking about this on Friday, this whole thing that apparently uh since we were talking earlier about uh Nancy Reagan uh dying and talking about the Reagan era and the nineteen eighties and everything, according to John Kasich, he was like the indispensable man in the nineteen eighties.
	We all thought it was Nancy at Ronnie's side, but as John Kasich tells it in these debates, he was at uh he was the guy at uh Reaganside throughout the nineteen eighties.
	John Kasich won the Cold War.
	He knocked down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain.
	I never knew I didn't know that.
	But uh John Kasich, he's up there on stage in these debates and there.
	And and he's the guy, the other thing he says is that he's the guy who was called in after nine eleven by Rumsfeld uh for the post-9 eleven strategy.
	Because we all know Rummy.
	Like Rummy uh Rummy is just like a wimp, he's just like this uh and he was like a big quivering heap of jelly after nine eleven.
	And it took John Kasich, the only man on the stage, the only adult on the stage, the son of a mailman.
	John Kasich had to go into Rummy's office at the Pentagon, and Rummy was going, Oh, John, thank God you've come.
	I don't know what to do.
	I haven't a clue.
	What am I gonna do?
	I don't know what I'm gonna do.
	And it took John Kasich, the only adult on the stage to slap Rumsfeld around and say, Pull yourself together, man.
	We're gonna go and invade your Afghanistan, get a grip on yourself, flip, flip, flap, flip, flip.
	And that's all.
	John Kasich.
	John Kasich.
	Not only did John Kasich single-handedly, with a bit of uh bit of help from uh some guy called Reagan, uh tear down the iron curtain, not only did John Kasich single-handedly kick down the Berlin Wall with a with a bit of a he had like a s a slight little gentle shove at the back from this guy called Reagan,
	but John Kasich also served as the man who uh after nine eleven stiffened Rumsfeld's spine, because we all know what a wuss that guy is, and uh and and taught him about C Sum Sense.
	So this is this is the you know, people have been talking about red-blooded red meat conservatives like Kasich.
	Kasich was actually doing the biggest red meat conservative act uh on that debate stage, and uh nobody's paid any attention to him.
	So he's he's running for he's running for vice president.
	The question I think it's actually a question now whether Rubio Rubio uh is the the collapse of Rubio is astonishing to me.
	Um because he he made a decision that to get out in front of his rivals, he had to sort of go uh go low and dirty with Trump.
	And everybody says that he only matched what Trump did.
	Trump actually didn't Trump Trump's general uh observations on his other on the other candidates have not been low.
	Low energy is a reasonable characterization of Jeb Bush.
	It's not beyond the pale.
	It's a devastating characterization, and one from which Jeb couldn't recover.
	But Rubio uh did all this stuff uh oh, you know, Trump wet his pants and Trump's small hands, and you know what that means.
	And the fact this guy was the Boy Scout.
	He was like the Boy Scout.
	And nobody wants a Boy Scout working blue.
	Nobody wants a twelve-year-old talking dirty.
	I mean, the r Trump Rubio's Rubio's choices, I think, uh, to start talking about whether Trump was a bit underendowed in the trouser department and whether he'd wet his knickers and all the rest of it.
	Um he's like uh carrying on what was that awful Seth MacFarlane movie with the potty mouthed teddy bear.
	That's what uh that's that's basically what uh Rubio's turned into over the last couple of weeks.
	And it and it has been a complete failure for him.
	And what it did uh was it meant that the anti-Trump vote went to Ted Cruz.
	So we've now got a two-man race, a two-man race, in which seventy to eighty percent of the vote is going for Trump or Cruz.
	And the idea that the establishment uh can suddenly proclaim uh at the convention that nobody has a majority, but seventy to eighty percent of votes have gone to Trump and Cruz, uh, and they're we're gonna parachute in Mr. Milktoast, Mr. Moderate, Mr. either Mitt Romney or some passing version of Mitt Romney.
	That ain't gonna happen.
	So the uh as yet again the GOP establishment with its brilliant strategy of banking on a category whose uh a candidate whose firewall was Puerto Rico has shot itself in the foot.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, we'll take your call straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	It's not all interne sign warfare in the conservative movement uh this week.
	The Canadian Prime Minister is coming to town.
	He's coming to Washington and Obama is giving him a state dinner.
	This is a guy we have a different system up in Canada from the way you Americans do, because this this new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is a substitute uh dr drama high school drama teacher.
	Because that's the how uh that's how we Canadians pick our Prime Minister.
	So the uh high s the substitute high school drama teacher, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, is coming to town this week, and sixty minutes uh Obama's throwing him a big state dinner, and sixty minutes did a preview that included a shot of Justin Trudeau's parents,
	at which point they uh showed a picture of the former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and in in the sp instead of showing Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, who used to be quite famous in New York for sitting on the Rolling Stones' knees at Studio 54 while not wearing any knickers, um instead of showing a picture of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, they showed a picture of Pierre Trudeau and Kim Catrell, uh the star of Sex and the City.
	And so Kim Catrell has been tweeting that she had no idea that she had a son who was the Prime Minister of Canada, and she couldn't be more proud.
	Uh so that's the that's the genius of six that's the kind of fact-checking you get from the mainstream media.
	Uh they can't tell the difference between Margaret Trudeau and Kim Catrell.
	All these Canadian cougars look alike to them.
	And uh so Kim Cattrell, according to CBS News, is the mother of the current Prime Minister of Canada.
	Probably the mother of Ted Cruz, too, for all we know.
	It could uh we we'll have to see what the CBS fact-checking department can uncover on that.
	Let's go to Kathy in Fort Myers, Florida.
	Kathy, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark, welcome and greetings from Sunny, Fort Myers, Florida.
	A quick shout out to my Uncle Russell in Tampa.
	Hey, listen, the the big story should have been about Marco winning Puerto Rico, and that's all fine, but no one mentioned that actually Trump came in second.
	He beat out Hispanic Cruz and Kasich.
	So I thought that was interesting that no one seemed to have picked up on that.
	But you know, so you know, i he supposedly Trump supposedly has so much trouble with Hispanics, and yet he came in second in Puerto Rico.
	Yeah, and I'll I'll put that together with another poll that shows that uh this is from Kerr, the Council on American Islamic Relations, whose poll shows uh that when it comes to support for Muslims, despite uh banning them all from the United States, Trump has more support among Muslims than all other Republican candidates put together.
	So you attach great significance to his second place finish in uh Puerto Rico, Kathy.
	I do, because you know, he doesn't get credit anywhere, you know.
	I mean, like he just uh, you know, he's supposed to be racist, and I mean the Saturday Night Live just bored me with uh I just saw a clip on Facebook of what they did, and I was just, you know, I was just shocked.
	I mean, they were not a good thing.
	What did they do?
	But not to get off topic, but uh I mean he just doesn't get any credit where credit is due, and you know, he has a lot a lot of support out here, and especially Florida, too.
	And I believe he's gonna win Florida, and um, you know, you just don't get it anywhere.
	It's hard to find, you know, anybody to give Trump the credit due.
	So uh eight days time, uh the the media seem to be suggesting that Rubio is rising in Florida.
	There was uh some poll that showed him five points behind Trump uh uh and that Trump's twenty-point lead was being eroded.
	But you still reckon that uh eight days from today Trump is going to be standing up at Mar-a-Lago or wherever it is and will be making a victory speech.
	Well, I'm a strong, you know, huge, huge uh Trump supporter, and um, you know, I um I'm gonna believe that and I'm gonna hope that and uh, you know, I bel I believe that all this negativity from Omni, who which I supported and walked the street for and you know, campaign for, you know, all this negativity, though the you know, with the strong support that Trump has, it's not helping.
	It's at least it's not helping the the uh Republican.
	Okay, okay, let me let me ask you a question, Kathy, because you get all these people, uh all these people saying if you support Trump, you're not really a Trump is a can isn't a conservative, and if you support Trump, uh that means that you're not a conservative.
	That's the argument that George Will and all these guys are making.
	Uh and what's your response to that?
	They know that this establishment is just scared to death of losing their power, and we're just gonna stand up and you know, and just it's gonna be our voice.
	It's gonna be the will of the people this time.
	Okay, Cathy, the will of the people.
	Uh we'll we'll talk about that a little more in in the next hour, because uh Trump, it's uh i i it's fascinating.
	Trump is a symptom.
	He's not the cause.
	Even if you even if you accept every bad thing that has ever been said about Donald Trump uh and some of the bad things he said himself, uh Trump is a symptom and not the cause.
	And so the question is then what is the best response to the symptom?
	The sim that the response essentially of a uh uh a beltway elite made up of uh think tank people and pundits and what you might call the conservative intellectual class to read people out to do this sort of Stalinist reading people out of the conservative movement because of a disagreement of opinion on the best candidate will have huge, huge implications for them uh in the years ahead.
	We'll talk that and take a lot more of your calls as the show continues.
	Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network.
	Uh, just a reminder, there is another uh party involved in this election, and on the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton has said that she would set up an education SWAT team as president, uh made up of teachers, principals, and others who are going to go and help public schools live up to the best standards.
	An education SWAT team.
	Uh I found this uh an hilariously uh uninformed uh formulation from Hillary, because in fact the US Secretary of Education is the only education minister on the planet who actually has his own SWAT team.
	You know, uh the French education minister doesn't have a SWAT team, and the German education minister doesn't have a SWAT team, and the New Zealand education minister doesn't have a SWAT team.
	But the U.S. Department of Education actually has a SWAT team.
	A couple of years ago, they kicked down the door of some guy in California Because he was behind on his student loan.
	And it turned out, of course, uh they kicked down the wrong door and they arrested the uh the wrong guy, and it turned out to be I think it was his ex-wife who'd been uh continuing to give her former husband's address.
	But Hillary Clinton's solution to the problems of uh U.S. education is to set up, as she sees it, a so-called education SWAT team.

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