Ep. 59 - How Much Must Republicans Lie To Get Elected?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is Donald Trump our density? Or rather, is he our destiny? We'll get to that. We'll also get to |
| 0:05.6 | Trump v. Cruz. Plus, an extra heaping helping of the Ben Shapiro show, second week mailbag, |
| 0:11.8 | and it is really, really chockful, so we'll save some extra time for that. I'm Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:15.3 | This is the Ben Shapiro. Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings. |
| 0:23.8 | So, you know, one of the things on the show that I like to say is that I told you so. |
| 0:27.8 | It's one of my favorite things to say. |
| 0:29.0 | And I get to say it all the time because I did tell you so because I'm right so often, |
| 0:32.2 | which is why you listen to the show. |
| 0:33.8 | And it turns out that I told you so. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm right. |
| 0:37.2 | Nate Silver, who is a very, very, very good statistical analysis analyst for 538.com. He has a piece today about how Donald Trump is favored by the establishment. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, it's not like I've been saying this for a week now that in a fight between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the establishment favors Donald Trump, but Nate Silver, who used to write for the New York Times, and now runs 538. He says, in the last election, he called all 50 states correctly as far as Obama versus Romney. He said, quote, in a nomination race like the Republican one, you could drop a list of reasons to be skeptical of any candidate's chances. |
| 1:12.8 | And he says, I used to be skeptical about Trump. |
| 1:15.8 | The reason I've been especially skeptical about Trump isn't listed above, nor is it because I expected Trump to spontaneously combust in national polls. |
| 1:23.4 | Instead, I was skeptical because I assumed that influential Republicans would do almost anything |
| 1:28.3 | they could to prevent him from being nominated. |
| 1:30.9 | But so far, the party isn't doing much to stop Trump. |
| 1:33.9 | Instead, it's making such an effort against Ted Cruz, which is what I have been saying. |
| 1:39.5 | The establishment does not fear Donald Trump. |
| 1:41.6 | Donald Trump is a creature of the moment. |
| 1:43.5 | Donald Trump is a creature of Trump. Trump is all that Trump is about,. Donald Trump is a creature of the moment. Donald Trump is a creature of |
| 1:44.8 | Trump. Trump is all that Trump is about, all Donald Trump is about is Donald Trump. And all I have to do is |
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