We're here. It is a Wednesday and Donald Trump is in full-scale meltdown.

Plus, two candidates have dropped out of the race will tell you who.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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Well, we begin with a fond farewell to two Republicans who have now dropped out of the race.

Senator Rand Paul dropped out of the race earlier this morning.

Apparently, the conference call was somewhat awkward.

Apparently, he called up all of his campaign operatives, and he told them that he was dropping out.

He sort of just announced it and dropped the bombshell on them.

And then when none of them said anything, he said, well, okay, then bye.

And then he hung up, this according to people who are inside the Rand Paul campaign.

The other candidate who dropped out was Rick Santorum, which begs the question, was Rick Santorum even running?

I mean, that's amazing. But Governor Jim Gilmore's campaign is going swimmingly. He's just

sitting in the background waiting for every other candidate to drop out, and Jim Gilmore will be is going swimmingly. He's just sitting in the background waiting for every other

candidate to drop out, and Jim Gilmore will be the only one left. 12 men enter, one man leaves,

the Republican nomination process. So this is all very exciting stuff. Well, moving on to New Hampshire,

the big question was going to be, Donald Trump loses Iowa.

How glass is his jaw? Does he see a major drop off in New Hampshire?

And right now, the polls say no. The polls say that Trump maintains a 24-point lead in the latest poll.

There was another poll this morning, had him up 24, 21 maybe. So in all the polls, he's basically maintaining his lead in New Hampshire. New Hampshire's a very

different state than Iowa. Ted Cruz is not going to clean up in New Hampshire. It's not a particularly

religious state. It tends to be more of a Rockefeller Republican state, all of which plays to

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