i think you have to look at the issue sets that people are concerned about, and the main issue set that s driving all of this is the issue of america s open borders and unmitigated immigration. most people don t realize that well over 3 million people a year are flooded into the into the united states, whether it s legal or illegal immigration or whether it s through the refugee program but why aren t those guys for trump? remember, donald trump is the person who put the issue of immigration square in the middle of the table. but why are the radio boys who tend to represent the most conservative voices of the country, they re not running for office, they don t need 51%, they need 5 or 10% to be hugely successful on the air. why are they all for cruz and not for trump, when trump s way ahead in the polls? well, none of the three you mentioned, mark levin, sean hannity or rush limbaugh, none of them have endorsed any candidate yet, but they have a
not just because of the holidays, but think about it this way. what is to be gained from a fight like that? i ll tell you what. trump gets iowa cheap. he s not willing to spend the money on a bio ad, but he should. he s not going to anyway. he doesn t have to. trump s personality is already a part of the iowa makeup. so, any falling away from trump right now in iowa, i don t think from the focus i ve talked to, is not that concerning to them. it gives them the sense that, yeah, we ve got to maybe do something as we get closer to ground time, but we have another debate that the rnc just put on the table in january. you ve got a january 14th debate. that takes the pressure off of this one. there is no real need to go toe-to-toe for this debate. the january debate, two weeks before the first vote in iowa, that is going to be the rodeo. i have this sort of frank sinatra sense of trump, that if you attack him, he attacks you back. anyway, trump called cruz a maniac in the senate. rush
what this is, santorum won by a handful of votes. romney won the nomination. romney didn t win the presidency. we can t speculate that santorum would have lost the presidency if the rest of the country would have followed iowa s recommendation with santorum. you can say the same thing are you betting on okay. are you betting either on santorum or huckabee, your previous iowa winners in this year s election? of course not. but here s what we need to be thinking about. iowa polls say cruz, national polls say trump. national polls are reflecting the national media that s flooded with all trump, all the time. you have to adjust for that and recognize that iowa and new hampshire will be independent and south carolina will listen to that recommendation. and i think that s a thread we need to watch throughout all of this. let me ask you all, i want to start with let me start with congressman bachmann, why do you think hannity and levin and rush limbaugh seem to be so pro-cruz? wha
raises the stakes in a way we haven t seen before for trump. he always goes after people threatening him, and he doesn t back down, and yet you ve got limbaugh and levin saying don t do this, what does trump do? a lot of conservative pundits don t like donald trump and he s managed to survive that. not those guys. they ve been defending him. they ve been defending him on talkradio. if ted cruz finds himself under attack by donald trump, lit be a real dilemma, because he has been very disciplined in hugging the strategy no, it won t. i don t think you re right. ted cruz is going to do what he s been doing, but what does trump do with these clear lines in the sand being drawn by limbaugh and levin is i don t think i would put my chips in the casinos in vegas on donald trump not calling ted cruz a bit of a maniac. he tends to be on better
excels. accordingly, in response to that maniac comment, cruz tweeted back. for months now, cruz mostly stood alone in the gop field and declined to criticize trump. instead compliments the established front-runner for bringing attention to the issues. but recently, cruz has questioned whether trump has the judgment to have his finger on the nuclear button. mark lavin calling trump fool h foolish. and rush limbaugh, who has raised trump s courage and guts, wasn t seeing either of those qualities in this latest dust-up.