Did they give you guys sedatives last night. It was calm. I thought it was good that we didnt get into the last few debates had gotten really ugly. You have seen a couple of the candidates on the stage just insulting each other, talking about each others body parts. Listen. I had no opinions whatsoever on any part of donalds anatomy. I am mad we made it through the entire debate. We started out with 17 people. This is for my radio and tv audience. Unless rubio and kasich show they can win states and compete it is really a twoperson race. To become the republican nominee you need 1237 delegates. There are only two that are on path to that. You are in the semifinals. We have 361 delegates don has 11 more than i do. You have to win florida, ohio, illinois, North Carolina all coming up. And missouri. And missouri. Florida and ohio winner take all. Big contest. How do you define victory tuesday night. We are competing in ohio, illinois, North Carolina, missouri. We are running a national campaign. What we have seen so far in the primaries is we are winning victories all over the country. I interviewed john casey and she says how exciting shield be to have a brokered convention. Governor mitt romney booing why are you booing me. Mitt romney says marco should win florida and kasich should win ohio. Why do i believe you also heard about this big meeting with sea island. There has been an effort from the beginning to prevent you and donald trump from getting the nomination but the people have spoken otherwise. I believe there is an effort to make sure that neither one of you gets to 1237 and brokered convention in comes the establishment and they will offer a quote candidate that will a compromised candidate. Do you agree thats what their strategy is. Theres no doubt there are folks in the washington establishment that is their dream go to a brokered convention parachute in. They are frustrated. They have had a bunch of chosen candidates. Every one the voters keep rejecting. But this is really important. If we get to that point, and this came up in the debate whoever has the most delegates should be the person. Do you agree with that sfl there is a difference between the brokered convention and regular. It is deadlocked and washington comes in and it is brand new. 76 is a contestant. If donald and i come in we are neck and neck and neither are at 1237 its a battle for the remaining delegates. Thats the way the convention works. I dont think we are going to do that. We are going to get the 1237 delegates. We are going to beat donald. applause i want to ask you, i go on twitter and facebook and social media. Passions are high right now. Very, very high. You will be proud. Your supporters are social media are extremely they are extremely passionate about you. You have got big endorsements this week. Mark levin, carly fear reasiori. The two narratives i see emerge and i want to give you a chance to answer this. Can ted cruz win a general election . These are not my words. And people like Mitch Mcconnell are still so angry at you. How do you work with him if hes the Senate Majority leader . Those are the issues i read the most. Lets take first the general election. If donald trump is our nominee we get killed in the general election. You look at poll after poll after poll, hillary walloped donald. The last poll i saw hillary was beating donald by 8 points. Those very same polls, poll after poll after poll show me beating Hillary Clinton head to head. And if you look at the people, if you look at the people we are turning out, the stakes we are winning, we are seeing record shattering turnout. It is dwarfing incredible turnout. Is it because of the eight disastrous years of obama . It is part of it. You have a federal government that doesnt listen, doesnt care, and people are ready for a change. If i had one issue, senator, that i would tell you, there is such palpable anger towards republicans. If you look at all of these polls, exit polls, states, it is 65, 65 percent of republicans feel betrayed. They feel the Republican Party i feel tbetrayed. I feel let down. I feel disappointed. I got to believe your popularity is rooted in the fact that you took on your party but you are hated for it. Explain. They go back to the promises they made and fulfill the promises they stood for. You do it the same way reagan did. You think about it the last time they broke washington corruption, the bipartisan corruption it was 91 the reagan revolution. Vegan didnt go to washington and say come on guys you got to stand for something. It was hopeless. Instead they built a grassroots army. That tidal wave swept in and held washington accountable. The two big legislative initiatives repealing every word of obamacare. Passing a simple flat tax and abolishing the irs. Could i do that in congress . Lets take the irs code. It is filled with subsidies and special handouts. Thats the beauty of the flat tax. The politicians their power goes away. Could you get paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell to go along with us . I believe if republicans do another promise like repeal and replace obamacare but wont use the Constitutional Authority of the purse or if they promise they will stop executive action and they end up funding it, if there is one more broken promise it is the straw that breaks the camels back of the Republican Party. You are right. Could i get leadership to do that now . Not in a million years. They are too captive to the lop iests. I intend to make 2016 a referendum on appealing obamacare and abolishing the irs. We come out in november and mandate the people. There is a second. In every battle we have with obama, we have seen what happens which is we end up not winning the battle because Republican Leadership preemptively surrenders. Theres a difference when you have a conservative who says if you send me a bill that is filled with corporate welfare i will veto it. Thats what a strong president can do. This is really important about obamacare. You say you are going to replace it. What are you going to replace it with . I know more people average increases around the country for obamacare this year alone, and i am sure you are feeling it here in orlando and florida is up to 40 and 50 percent. Look, it is unaffordable. We are not spending the 2500 aer yao. We didnt keep our doctors and our plans, we were lied to. You are exactly right. Obamacare is a disaster. Number one it is the biggest disaster in the country. You are wondering why cant i get a job one of the big reasons is Small Businesses are getting crushed with obamacare and they cant afford it. People are getting their hours forcibly reduced. Do you know how many single moms in florida are weighting tables or working two or threepart time jobs they are at 28, 29 hours a week because obamacare kicked in at 30 hours a week. Beyond that what obamacare is doing to our healthcare. Many lost their doctors and premiums. How many people here have senior premiums sky rocket . Not only are you paying more but your deductible is higher and copay is higher. Why are we writing all of these checks nor medical bills our premiums are going through the roof. Our deductible is high if you go to the doctor you pay for it write check after check after check. Thats what obamacare has given us. Getting rid of it revealing repealing every word of it lifts the burden off of Small Businesses and give millions of jobs. How about healthcare reform . Healthcare reform, we are not done once we repeal obamacare. We still have a problem and we need to expand competition. We need to empower patience so that you can make your healthcare decisions with your doctor without government getting in the way. I think the keys to doing that are threefold. Number one, allowing people to buy Health Insurance across state lines. That creates a national 50 state marketplace that drives down costs and expands the availability of low cost catastrophic care. Number two expanded Health Savings account so you can have a tax advantage caway for more routine healthcare. We need to make Health Insurance affordable so it goes with you from job to job to job if you lose your job you dont lose your Health Insurance and personal and portable and affordable is more attractive than the disaster we have now. We have to take a break. We are in beautiful orlando, florida. We have ted cruz and we are glad you are with us. Ive been on my feel all day. Im bushed yea me too. Excuse me. Coming through ride the gel wave of comfort with dr. Scholls massaging gel insoles. 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Welcome back to beautiful orlando, flo orlando. You talk about a flat tags tax. I have asked every candidate in every interview 95 million americans out of work. Kwef 40 million on food stamps and 30 million down on obama and he will leaf office accumulating more debt than every other president combined. That is an insurmountable amount. We go 1. 25 trillion in the last five months. We have a budget deficit during that period of time. We dont have a debt because we are under taxed. We have a debt because washington is spending money it doesnt have. How do you get washington to spend less . I have always liked the penny plan it is simple you cut one sent for every six years you get to a balanced budget. The only way you can do it number one with strong conservative leadership in the white house backed up by the people. One of the striking things is in the entire course of the debate it became evident donald trump hadz no solutions to any of these problems. I think the question most americans want to know is how do you get to a balanced budget. All of that matters the most important piece if you want to bring down the debt is bring Economic Growth. If you stay at 1 and 2 percent the math doesnt work. You cant cut enough. Donald at the end of the day doesnt understand where growth comes from. He said listen nobody knows the system better than he does. He may be right. He is the system. He is washington. Donalds perspective is government is the answer to everything. Whatever the problem is we need more government and every issue he doesnt disagree with obama on substance he says they are not doing a good enough job. He will negotiate a better deal with socialized healthcare and obamacare. Heres the key. If you want Economic Growth you know two words that never come out of donalds mouth . Small business. From donalds perspective the economy is about giant corporations new york billionaires sitting down with politicians whether it is Hillary Clinton or john boehner and suckling off government and getting rich at the expense of the working men and women the heck with big business. The focus of vogt has to be small business. There seems to be a twoprong approach we need. One is government needs to spend a lot less. I would cut a lot of government maybe not the military. The other part is the growth pa factor. Energy and independence would add to that. Allowing corporations to repatriate. There are trillions of dollars overseas. Those are solutions to me. That is part of your economic plans. Explain how the flat tax gets people out of poverty and back to work . Lets start with spending because that was the first part of your question. I laid out a very detailed spending plan. 500 billion in specific spending cuts. Did you notice last night and the entire debate donald was not willing to list a single thing he would cut. He wouldnt lift an agency or program. I asked him when have you ever stood up to a washington lobbyist on anything . He couldnt spoint to a single instance. Donald and hillary are the flip side of the same coin. They are washington. They are power. They are big business. They are corruption. And instead, now listen, why do other candidates not do what i have done which is specify exactly what i have cut because you take off all of the lobbyists they are real unhappy when you say i am cutting your money. They dont want to get attacked. If you are going to turn washington around you have got to stem great t demonstrate t courage to take on washington. You dont yell a lot. It makes you ill manored. I want to focus as much as i can on solutions. You brought up donald trump a lot. When he says he is going to build a wall when he tells me hes going to make America Energy independent. Relax, all right . Do you not believe him . No. Do you not believe for example you dont think he would build a wall. He told them he wasnt going to build the wall. He said he went to manhattan a couple months ago and told the New York Times he said he was flexible. Thats what he claims he said. What was recorded is he told them listen i dont believe the language i am using about immigration. I am just saying it because it scares people and makes them vote for me. I dont intend to do it. If he releases the tape we can all see the fact that he wont release the tape donald is telling us hes lying to us. Here is the difference. As president , donald said he will be a completely different person the day after he is elected he will be the most politically correct person on earth. I will be the same person the day after i am elected that i am today. We are going to take a break. We are in beautiful orlando florida. We are with senator ted cruz the entire hour. 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Palin is mad at you because you said Trump Supporters are rush uses this term a lot. Low information volters. You want to appeal to every supporter of every other candidate. Absolutely, yes. I understand why people are backing donald trump. They are tired of politicians lying to them. They are tired of the corruption in washington. I share all of those sentiments. What happens is when people start to examine trumps record they realize hes what they are angry about. You dont fix the corruption by supporting someone who has been immeshed in the corruption. His argument last night heres how the Washington Cartel operates. You get career politicians in both both parties. Hillary clinton and john boehner sitting at the same table and you have the special interests by donald trump. He writes the big check. He gets richer and richer they put in laws that let him do like what he is doing in florida abusing immigration laws bringing in Foreign Workers for American Workers and donalds argument is for 40 years he has been part of that corruption. But now suddenly we are going to put the fox in charge of the hen house. He len corrupting it for 40 years. Lets take out the middleman and, by the way, one of the Amazing Things you have a big endorsement today from national review. Yeah. What we are seeing is conservatives uniting behind our campaign. That is happening more and more every day. It is because if we are going to stand up to washington, you have got to have someone who actually has stood up to washington who has taken on the lobbyists who doesnt lack to government for every solution. My solution is get government out of your way. You get the federal government off of your back, please. Thank you. I would really appreciate that. I know everyone here will. The issue of islam came up last night. I dont say it the way donald trump says it. I am my own person. There is a huge cultural divide. We have an alliance with saudi arabia they have been gouging us for years on oil. They have played both sides of the fence. The same with egypt they elected Mohammed Morsi at one point the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood a guy who once referred the jews as descendants of apes and pigs. Radical islam, with islam people are second class citizens you are not free to practice your religion. You dont have freedom of speech in these countries and you were talking about how we have to involve them as part of the solution. Arent they all combined especially under sharia. Whether it is keeping the country safe fighting islamic terrorism or bringing back the economy he we need a president that knows what he is doing. 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