Donald Trump may be the current GOP front-runner, but primary rival Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, seems to have what it takes to bring him down, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday.
“Of all the Republicans in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, while it acknowledges that Donald Trump is adding to his lead, there is one Republican, according to the people polled in their responses here, there’s one candidate who could beat Trump for the nomination, in the eyes of Republican primary voters, and that’s Ted Cruz,” he said on his radio program.
He added, “Now, I don’t have to tell you that that little tidbit of information is not something that’s causing them to do handstands and flips at the GOP.”
Limbaugh’s remarks came after Cruz and Trump appeared to break their unspoken treaty Thursday evening during a GOP primary debate in South Carolina.
The so-called GOP “establishment want the name of the person who can bring down the current front-runner to be, Jeb Bush — and if the name isn’t Jeb Bush, they want it to be Marco Rubio, as we said yesterday,” Limbaugh said.
“Now we’ve got stories all over the media — Politico, the New York Times — about how the Republican Party is all of a sudden saying, ‘Well, yeah, you know what? Maybe we can live with Ted. Maybe Ted’s not looking so bad now,'” he added.
Because recent trends suggest that Cruz may actually be able to unseat Trump, Limbaugh theorized Friday that the GOP “establishment” may now be warming up to the Texas senator.
“The establishment people say, “Yeah, Ted could be one of us.” So they do want to win,” he said.
Limbaugh has made it no secret that he is deeply impressed by Cruz’s presidential campaign. To date, he has not officially backed anyone in the GOP primary.
(h/t Daily Rushbo)
