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Ted Cruz Calls in on Super Tuesday

March 01, 2016
Lori Hanes

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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.

Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:

5 SURPRISING ways space tech is used in your daily life

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Is your vacuum cleaner from SPACE?

This week, Glenn is discussing his recent purchase of a Sputnik satellite, which has got many of us thinking about space and space technology. More specifically, we've been wondering how technology initially designed for use outside Earth's atmosphere impacted our lives down here on terra firma. The U.S. spent approximately $30 billion ($110 billion in today's money) between the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the Moon Landing in 1969. What do we have to show for it besides some moon rocks?

As it turns out, a LOT of tech originally developed for space missions has made its way into products that most people use every day. From memory foam to cordless vacuums here are 5 pieces of space tech that you use every day:

Cellphone camera

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Have you ever seen a photograph of an early camera, the big ones with the tripod and curtain, and wondered how we went from that to the tiny little cameras that fit inside your cellphone? Thank NASA for that brilliant innovation. When you are launching a spaceship or satellite out of the atmosphere, the space onboard comes at a premium. In order to make more room for other equipment, NASA wanted smaller, lighter cameras without compromising image quality, and the innovations made to accomplish this goal paved the way for the cameras in your phone.

Cordless vacuums and power tools

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When exploring the moon, NASA wanted astronauts to use a drill to collect samples from the lunar surface. The problem: the moon has a severe lack of electrical outlets to power the drills. NASA tasked Black & Decker with developing a battery-powered motor powerful enough to take chunks out of the moon. The resulting motor was later adapted to power cordless power tools and vacuums in households across America.

Infrared ear thermometer

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What do distant stars and planets have in common with your eardrum? Both have their temperature read by the same infrared technology. The thermometers that can be found in medicine cabinets and doctors' offices across the world can trace their origins back to the astronomers at NASA who came up with the idea to measure the temperature of distant objects by the infrared light they emit.

Grooved pavement

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This one may seem obvious, but sometimes you need a massively complicated problem to come up with simple solutions. During the Space Shuttle program, NASA had a big problem: hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is dangerous enough when you are going 70 miles an hour in your car, but when you're talking about a Space Shuttle landing at about 215 miles per hour, it's an entirely different animal. So what was NASA's space-age solution? Cutting grooves in the pavement to quickly divert water off the runway, a practice now common on many highways across the world.

Memory foam

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If you've ever slept on a memory foam mattress, it probably won't come as a shock to find out that the foam was created to cushion falls from orbit. Charles Yotes was an astronautical engineer who is credited with the invention of memory foam. Yotes developed the technology for the foam while working on the recovery system for the Apollo command module. The foam was originally designed to help cushion the astronauts and their equipment during their descent from space. Now, the space foam is used to create some of the most comfortable mattresses on Earth. Far out.

5 most HORRIFIC practices condoned by WPATH

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Whatever you know about the "trans movement" is only the tip of the iceberg.

In a recent Glenn TV special, Glenn delved into Michael Schellenberger's "WPATH files," a collection of leaked internal communications from within the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Glenn's research team got their hands on the WPATH files and compiled the highlights in Glenn's exclusive PDF guide which can be downloaded here. These documents reveal the appalling "standards" created and upheld by WPATH, which appear to be designed to allow radical progressive surgeons to perform bizarre, experimental, and mutilating surgeries on the dime of insurance companies rather than to protect the health and well-being of their patients. These disturbing procedures are justified in the name of "gender-affirming care" and are defended zealously as "life-saving" by the dogmatic surgeons who perform them.

The communications leaked by Schellenberger reveal one horrific procedure after another committed in the name of and defended by radical gender ideology and WPATH fanatics. Here are five of the most horrifying practices condoned by WPATH members:

1.Trans surgeries on minors as young as 14

One particular conversation was initiated by a doctor asking for advice on performing irreversible male-to-female surgery on a 14-year-old boy's genitals. WPATH doctors chimed in encouraging the surgery. One doctor, Dr. McGinn, confessed that he had performed 20 such surgeries on minors over the last 17 years!

2.Amputation of healthy, normal limbs

BIID, or Body Integrity Identity Disorder, is an “extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis.” As you might suspect, some WPATH members are in favor of enabling this destructive behavior. One WPATH commenter suggested that people suffering from BIID received "hostile" treatment from the medical community, many of whom would recommend psychiatric care over amputation. Apparently, telling people not to chop off perfectly healthy limbs is now considered "violence."

3.Trans surgeries on patients with severe mental illnesses

WPATH claims to operate off of a principle known as "informed consent," which requires doctors to inform patients of the risks associated with a procedure. It also requires patients be in a clear state of mind to comprehend those risks. However, this rule is taken very lightly among many WPATH members. When one of the so-called "gender experts" asked about the ethicality of giving hormones to a patient already diagnosed with several major mental illnesses, they were met with a tidal wave of backlash from their "enlightened" colleges.

4.Non-standard procedures, such as “nullification” and other experimental, abominable surgeries

If you have never heard of "nullification" until now, consider yourself lucky. Nullification is the removal of all genitals, intending to create a sort of genderless person, or a eunuch. But that's just the beginning. Some WPATH doctors admitted in these chatlogs that they weren't afraid to get... creative. They seemed willing to create "custom" genitals for these people that combine elements of the two natural options.

5.Experimental, untested, un-researched, use of carcinogenic drugs 

Finasteride is a drug used to treat BPH, a prostate condition, and is known to increase the risk of high-grade prostate cancer as well as breast cancer. Why is this relevant? When a WPATH doctor asked if anyone had used Finasteride "to prevent bottom growth," which refers to the healthy development of genitals during puberty. The answer from the community was, "That's a neat idea, someone should give it a go."

These 28 states have BANNED private funding in our elections—has yours?

If your state isn’t on this list, it begs the question... why?

The 2020 election exposed a wide range of questionable practices, much of which Glenn covered in a recent TV special. A particularly sinister practice is the use of private money to fund the election. This money came from a slew of partisan private sources, including Mark Zuckerberg, entailed a host of caveats and conditions and were targeted at big city election offices— predominantly democratic areas. The intention is clear: this private money was being used to target Democrat voters and to facilitate their election process over their Republican counterparts.

The use of private funds poses a major flaw in the integrity of our election, one which many states recognized and corrected after the 2020 election. This begs the question: why haven't all states banned private funding in elections? Why do they need private funding? Why don't they care about the strings attached?

Below is the list of all 28 states that have banned private funding in elections. If you don't see your state on this list, it's time to call your state's election board and demand reform.

Alabama

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Arizona

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Arkansas

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Florida

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Georgia

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Idaho

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Indiana

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Iowa

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Kansas

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Mississippi

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Missouri

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Montana

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Nebraska

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North Carolina

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North Dakota

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Ohio

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Oklahoma

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Pennsylvania

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South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Texas

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Utah

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Virginia

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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POLL: Was Malaysia Flight 370 taken by a WORMHOLE?

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It's hard to know what's real and what's fake anymore.

With the insanity that seems to grow every day, it is becoming more and more difficult to tell what's true and what's not, what to believe, and what to reject. Anything seems possible.

That's why Glenn had Ashton Forbes on his show, to explore the fringe what most people would consider impossible. Forbes brought Glenn a fascinating but far-out theory that explains the decade-old disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 along with riveting footage that supposedly corroborates his story. Like something out of a sci-fi novel, Forbes made the startling claim that Flight 370 was TELEPORTED via a U.S. military-made wormhole! As crazy as that sounds, the video footage along with Forbes' scientific research made an interesting, if not compelling case.

But what do you think? Do you believe that the U.S. Government can create wormholes? Did they use one to abduct Flight 370? Is the government hiding futuristic tech from the rest of the world? Let us know in the poll below:

Does the military have the capability to create wormholes?

Is the U.S. military somehow responsible for what happened to Malaysia Flight 370?

Is the military in possession of technology beyond what we believe to be possible?

Do you think American military tech is ahead of the other superpowers?

Do you think there would be negative consequences if secret government technology was leaked?