right wing radio hosts who reach tens of million of listeners extremely influential with voters trump and cruz are chasing seem to be showing their hand. here is the problem going after ted cruz who is rising dramatically in the polls from a trump perspective. ted cruz is loved by the conservative base. at the end of the day when people go vote, people are going to remember of the two it was marco rubio who was a member of the gang of eight and ted cruz that wasn t. reporter: when cruz took a rare blow from donald trump calling cruz a maniac, the heavyweights coming to cruz defense. i think my friend donald trump really screwed up this weekend. big time. reporter: eric erickson wrote, it is increasingly obvious ted cruz is the last, best chance to stop donald trump. cruz and rubio are aware of the