Talk radio’s leading political characters have split into separate camps during this highly charged election season: Mark Levin and Glenn Beck have thrown in firmly with Ted Cruz, while a certain San Francisco-based botanist has consistently served as one of Donald Trump’s leading boosters in the media. (Presumably, somebody somewhere is supporting John Kasich.) Rush Limbaugh, meanwhile, who continues to host the top-rated political talk show in the country, has remained steadfastly agnostic, neither endorsing nor condemning Cruz or Trump.
He’s showing signs of frustration with Trump though. On Tuesday’s program, Limbaugh lit into the real estate mogul for his suggestion that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination. And he labeled a Trump supporter (or a “Trumpist,” in Rush vernacular) who had a heated confrontation with Ted Cruz in Indiana earlier this week “brain dead.”
So even as the Wall Street Journal goes one way, Limbaugh appears headed in the other direction.
