Ted Cruz Calls in on Super Tuesday

March 01, 2016

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Super Tuesday has been a turning point in many elections --- and it can be for Ted Cruz. He has a promising lead in polls from his home state of Texas and is within the margin of error in a few others. Cruz joined The Glenn Beck Program Tuesday morning to answer a few questions posed by Glenn.

GLENN: Let's talk about your path to victory. People say you just can't win. Can you talk about your path to victory?

CRUZ: Well, sure. If you look at the race right now, the first four primaries, what they historically do is they narrow the field. Remember, we started with 17 candidates. We're down effectively do three candidates who have anything resembling a viable path. Right now, Donald Trump is quite strong. He's got a lot of momentum. But the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump and that I believe can beat Donald Trump is our campaign. We beat him and we beat him resoundingly in Iowa.

And today, on Super Tuesday, I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of the entire primary season. In my home state of Texas, we're very strong here. The numbers are very encouraging. I think we are likely to win in Texas today. And we are running neck-and-neck in Super Tuesday states all across the country. We are effectively tied or within the margin of error with Donald Trump and Super Tuesday states all around the country.

If you're in a Super Tuesday state, if you are voting today, please come out and vote and bring your friends. Bring your family. It's all about turnout. This race, state by state, could come down to a few thousand or even a few hundred votes. Your vote makes a difference. Your friends' and families' votes make a difference.

I think what's going to happen at the end of the day, Glenn, is Donald Trump is going to have a big chunk of delegates, we're going to have a big chunk of delegates, and everybody else is going to be way, way down at the bottom. That will effectively narrow the field even more.

And when it gets to a two-man race between me and Donald, we win. In fact, we win resoundingly. The polling shows, we beat Donald Trump head-to-head by 16 points: 56 to 40. Because Donald Trump has a hard ceiling of about 35 to 40 percent. What he's benefiting from is a fractured field, having other people, where the vote against him is divided. And so today is absolutely critical to narrowing the field.

GLENN: What is Marco Rubio's path to victory?

CRUZ: Marco is a good guy. He's charming. He's affable. I consider him a friend. He and I have disagreed strongly on immigration when he led the Gang of Eight amnesty bill. Donald Trump funded the Gang of Eight. And I led the opposition to defeating -- the opposition and the successful effort, defeating the Gang of Eight.

But Marco did not does not have a path to beating Donald Trump. Marco has not won a single state. He's zero for four in the first four states. Today on Super Tuesday, Marco is not anticipating winning any state on Super Tuesday. And even his home state of Florida, Marco is right now 20 points down in Florida. In all likelihood, Marco is going to lose Florida, his own home state. And you cannot win a primary, you can't beat Donald Trump if you can't win any states and can't win any delegates. And so the day that matters the most is today, Super Tuesday.

If we're going to stop Donald Trump --- and I think we've got to Donald Trump, if he's our nominee, Hillary wins. And the country --- it is a disaster for the country. The time to stop Donald Trump is today, on Super Tuesday. And, Glenn, it is your listeners, it is everyone listening to this radio show that has the ability to step up and pull this country up from the brink. And it's by coming out and voting today on Super Tuesday, standing united, and getting your friends and families and loved ones and coworkers all to do the same.

GLENN: Will you agree to that and say, if you'rE way behind in the delegate count, behind Marco Rubio tomorrow, that you would drop out?

CRUZ: Listen, I think there is no doubt that if I reached a point where there was no path to victory, where I was way behind in the delegate count and someone else was better positioned to defeat Marco Rubio, my priority is the country. We have got to save the country. And I will do whatever I can to save the country.

I do hope, come Wednesday morning, if there are candidates who have not been able to win a state, who are not amassing the delegates -- it takes 1237 delegates to become the Republican nominee. If you come out of Super Tuesday -- we've got about 600 delegates being allocated -- and you're not winning enough to move the needle, I do think it is time for a candidate to say, "All right. It's not -- it's not working for me. Let's come together and unify."

Because Donald Trump, I believe, would be a manifest disaster. We just had polling come out today that Donald Trump loses and loses badly to Hillary Clinton, loses by ten points. The same polling --- this is CNN --- shows that I beat Hillary head-to-head.

If Donald Trump is the nominee, Hillary Clinton becomes the president. We lose the Supreme Court for a generation. Religious liberty will be taken away by the Supreme Court. The Second Amendment will be erased from the Bill of Rights effectively by the Supreme Court.

GLENN: People in D.C. don't like you, so how can you ever get things done? How can you negotiate?

CRUZ: the people in D.C. don't like me is not that I'm mean to them, it's that I actually have done what I said I would do and stand with the American people. I've said many times the biggest divide in politics is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between career politicians in Washington in both parties and the American people.

And if you're fed up with politicians in Washington lying to you, cutting deals with the Democrats, Marco Rubio has cut deals with the Democrats to push amnesty. Donald Trump is promising to cut deals with the Democrats to expand government. We need instead a president who stands up to Washington. And I point out, we have a good example, Ronald Reagan. Washington despised Ronald Reagan. Yet Reagan was elected with the support of the people, and it turned Washington around. I intend to do the exact same thing. And with the support of the people -- that's the only way we can break the Washington cartel.

If you have a candidate in this race who Washington likes. That ought to be a big warning sign. If the corrupt politicians in Washington like a candidate in this race, that shows that they're willing to go along and get along. And that's how we've gotten the $19 trillion debt. It's how we're seeing our constitutional rights taken away.

GLENN: Do people like me and voices like me or Mark Levin or anybody that stands against him? Are we in trouble if he becomes president of the United States?

CRUZ: Listen, Donald Trump has demonstrated a tendency to abuse power to go after anyone who crosses him, and in particular, to go after the little guy, to go after the working man. You know, this is a man who had a $1 million court judgment against him for hiring illegal aliens. This is a man who continues to bring in foreign workers at his Florida hotel because he doesn't want to hire Americans.

And so his view of the Constitution, frankly, has a lot of similarities to Barack Obama's view of the Constitution, which is that --- it is an inconvenience at best that he will do what he wants. I believe in the First Amendment. You know what, you've got every right to speak your views, but so do numskulls like Michael Moore and other people on the left. They have the right to insult me, to attack me all day long, and I will defend their First Amendment right to attack me. Because we live in a free nation. And they have a right to do that.

Donald Trump's view is that power should be used to silence anyone coming after him. That is a very dangerous view for a president. And --- and, you know, we need instead, after seven years of a narcissistic, power hungry president like Barack Obama, we need a president who will be faithful to the Constitution and defend the Bill of Rights. Not someone who will rule by decree just as Barack Obama did. I think that is incredibly dangerous for our liberties.

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Colorado counselor fights back after faith declared “illegal”

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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I have been honored to receive the Defender of Israel Award from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post recently named me one of the strongest Christian voices in support of Israel.

And yet, my support is not blind loyalty. It’s not a rubber stamp for any government or policy. I support Israel because I believe it is my duty — first as a Christian, but even if I weren’t a believer, I would still support her as a man of reason, morality, and common sense.

Because faith isn’t required to understand this: Israel’s existence is not just about one nation’s survival — it is about the survival of Western civilization itself.

It is a lone beacon of shared values in the Middle East. It is a bulwark standing against radical Islam — the same evil that seeks to dismantle our own nation from within.

And my support is not rooted in politics. It is rooted in something simpler and older than politics: a people’s moral and historical right to their homeland, and their right to live in peace.

Israel has that right — and the right to defend herself against those who openly, repeatedly vow her destruction.

Let’s make it personal: if someone told me again and again that they wanted to kill me and my entire family — and then acted on that threat — would I not defend myself? Wouldn’t you? If Hamas were Canada, and we were Israel, and they did to us what Hamas has done to them, there wouldn’t be a single building left standing north of our border. That’s not a question of morality.

That’s just the truth. All people — every people — have a God-given right to protect themselves. And Israel is doing exactly that.

My support for Israel’s right to finish the fight against Hamas comes after eighty years of rejected peace offers and failed two-state solutions. Hamas has never hidden its mission — the eradication of Israel. That’s not a political disagreement.

That’s not a land dispute. That is an annihilationist ideology. And while I do not believe this is America’s war to fight, I do believe — with every fiber of my being — that it is Israel’s right, and moral duty, to defend her people.

Criticism of military tactics is fair. That’s not antisemitism. But denying Israel’s right to exist, or excusing — even celebrating — the barbarity of Hamas? That’s something far darker.

We saw it on October 7th — the face of evil itself. Women and children slaughtered. Babies burned alive. Innocent people raped and dragged through the streets. And now, to see our own fellow citizens march in defense of that evil… that is nothing short of a moral collapse.

If the chants in our streets were, “Hamas, return the hostages — Israel, stop the bombing,” we could have a conversation.

But that’s not what we hear.

What we hear is open sympathy for genocidal hatred. And that is a chasm — not just from decency, but from humanity itself. And here lies the danger: that same hatred is taking root here — in Dearborn, in London, in Paris — not as horror, but as heroism. If we are not vigilant, the enemy Israel faces today will be the enemy the free world faces tomorrow.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s about the courage to call evil by its name and to say “Never again” — and mean it.

And you don’t have to open a Bible to understand this. But if you do — if you are a believer — then this issue cuts even deeper. Because the question becomes: what did God promise, and does He keep His word?

He told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” He promised to make Abraham the father of many nations and to give him “the whole land of Canaan.” And though Abraham had other sons, God reaffirmed that promise through Isaac. And then again through Isaac’s son, Jacob — Israel — saying: “The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and to your descendants after you.”

That’s an everlasting promise.

And from those descendants came a child — born in Bethlehem — who claimed to be the Savior of the world. Jesus never rejected His title as “son of David,” the great King of Israel.

He said plainly that He came “for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And when He returns, Scripture says He will return as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And where do you think He will go? Back to His homeland — Israel.

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And what will He find when He gets there? His brothers — or his brothers’ enemies? Will the roads where He once walked be preserved? Or will they lie in rubble, as Gaza does today? If what He finds looks like the aftermath of October 7th, then tell me — what will be my defense as a Christian?

Some Christians argue that God’s promises to Israel have been transferred exclusively to the Church. I don’t believe that. But even if you do, then ask yourself this: if we’ve inherited the promises, do we not also inherit the land? Can we claim the birthright and then, like Esau, treat it as worthless when the world tries to steal it?

So, when terrorists come to slaughter Israelis simply for living in the land promised to Abraham, will we stand by? Or will we step forward — into the line of fire — and say,

“Take me instead”?

Because this is not just about Israel’s right to exist.

It’s about whether we still know the difference between good and evil.

It’s about whether we still have the courage to stand where God stands.

And if we cannot — if we will not — then maybe the question isn’t whether Israel will survive. Maybe the question is whether we will.

When did Americans start cheering for chaos?

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Every time we look away from lawlessness, we tell the next mob it can go a little further.

Chicago, Portland, and other American cities are showing us what happens when the rule of law breaks down. These cities have become openly lawless — and that’s not hyperbole.

When a governor declares she doesn’t believe federal agents about a credible threat to their lives, when Chicago orders its police not to assist federal officers, and when cartels print wanted posters offering bounties for the deaths of U.S. immigration agents, you’re looking at a country flirting with anarchy.

Two dangers face us now: the intimidation of federal officers and the normalization of soldiers as street police. Accept either, and we lose the republic.

This isn’t a matter of partisan politics. The struggle we’re watching now is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between good and evil, right and wrong, self‑government and chaos.

Moral erosion

For generations, Americans have inherited a republic based on law, liberty, and moral responsibility. That legacy is now under assault by extremists who openly seek to collapse the system and replace it with something darker.

Antifa, well‑financed by the left, isn’t an isolated fringe any more than Occupy Wall Street was. As with Occupy, big money and global interests are quietly aligned with “anti‑establishment” radicals. The goal is disruption, not reform.

And they’ve learned how to condition us. Twenty‑five years ago, few Americans would have supported drag shows in elementary schools, biological males in women’s sports, forced vaccinations, or government partnerships with mega‑corporations to decide which businesses live or die. Few would have tolerated cartels threatening federal agents or tolerated mobs doxxing political opponents. Yet today, many shrug — or cheer.

How did we get here? What evidence convinced so many people to reverse themselves on fundamental questions of morality, liberty, and law? Those long laboring to disrupt our republic have sought to condition people to believe that the ends justify the means.

Promoting “tolerance” justifies women losing to biological men in sports. “Compassion” justifies harboring illegal immigrants, even violent criminals. Whatever deluded ideals Antifa espouses is supposed to somehow justify targeting federal agents and overturning the rule of law. Our culture has been conditioned for this moment.

The buck stops with us

That’s why the debate over using troops to restore order in American cities matters so much. I’ve never supported soldiers executing civilian law, and I still don’t. But we need to speak honestly about what the Constitution allows and why. The Posse Comitatus Act sharply limits the use of the military for domestic policing. The Insurrection Act, however, exists for rare emergencies — when federal law truly can’t be enforced by ordinary means and when mobs, cartels, or coordinated violence block the courts.

Even then, the Constitution demands limits: a public proclamation ordering offenders to disperse, transparency about the mission, a narrow scope, temporary duration, and judicial oversight.

Soldiers fight wars. Cops enforce laws. We blur that line at our peril.

But we also cannot allow intimidation of federal officers or tolerate local officials who openly obstruct federal enforcement. Both extremes — lawlessness on one side and militarization on the other — endanger the republic.

The only way out is the Constitution itself. Protect civil liberty. Enforce the rule of law. Demand transparency. Reject the temptation to justify any tactic because “our side” is winning. We’ve already seen how fear after 9/11 led to the Patriot Act and years of surveillance.

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Two dangers face us now: the intimidation of federal officers and the normalization of soldiers as street police. Accept either, and we lose the republic. The left cannot be allowed to shut down enforcement, and the right cannot be allowed to abandon constitutional restraint.

The real threat to the republic isn’t just the mobs or the cartels. It’s us — citizens who stop caring about truth and constitutional limits. Anything can be justified when fear takes over. Everything collapses when enough people decide “the ends justify the means.”

We must choose differently. Uphold the rule of law. Guard civil liberties. And remember that the only way to preserve a government of, by, and for the people is to act like the people still want it.