It's a Monday, and here we are. We're back. We're one week away from the vaunted Iowa caucuses.

We'll talk about all of the latest. I'm almost done with this cold, and the Republic is almost done with being a republic.

So there's a coincidence for you. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

The honest, I tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.

So the new poll members are out, and Donald Trump is up by a large margin.

According to the latest Fox News poll, Donald Trump is up by 11 points in Iowa, 37 to 26,

over the guy who I want to win Iowa, Senator Ted Cruz, from Texas.

And Trump, I think, is bouncing back in a couple of ways. I think that he's bouncing back because, number one, he was getting

smacked around by a lot of people who were conservative last week, including me, but the real hit

came for Trump from National Review. And people didn't make too big a deal out of this in the media outside of a certain

sector.

The conservative media made a big deal out of it.

But I think it actually had impact because it looked like the conservative intelligentsia,

the elites were ganging up on Donald Trump.

And Donald Trump's entire strategy throughout this entire race was, I whine and I whine until I win.

He actually said that on CNN last August.

And so anytime he can play the victim, he's in an opportunistic situation.

And that's basically what has happened in the last week and a half.

He's smacking at Cruz.

Cruz is smacking at him.

The Sarah Palin endorsement gave him cover to pretend to be a

conservative, even though, as we discussed last week, his record is not particularly

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