Here we are, it is a Wednesday, and all shreds of sanity have been lost here on the set. But we'll talk about why that is, maybe. But mostly we'll talk about the presidential race. We'll talk about Donald Trump and Ted Cruz still getting into fights with each other. And who is the biggest liar in this race? Is it Trump? Is it Cruz? Or is it Marco Rubio? Who is the biggest liar? We'll talk about all of those things. I am Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. Tend to demonize people because don't care about your feelings. So we'll start with the news. The news is that Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, is about to endorse Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida in the presidential race.

And that's fine. That's fine. I mean, I've stated clearly here on the podcast, and my first choice for the nomination is Cruz. My second choice for the nomination is Rubio. It doesn't make a huge difference to me personally if Nikki Haley endorses Rubio. I've had things that I like about Nikki Haley, things I didn't like about Nikki Haley. I thought her response to the state of the union was terrible.

I thought that she handled the Confederate flag

issue in South Carolina badly. But, you know, that's just me. I don't care. It's fine. There's

only one problem I have with the Nikki Haley endorsement. And that is, the more complicated this

Republican race becomes, the more complicated it becomes, the better the shot,

that Donald Trump ends up as the nominee. And Donald Trump is, in fact, a terrible, terrible,

terrible liar. He's just, he lies on a consistent basis. Today, he actually sent a cease and

assist letter to Ted Cruz based on an ad that Ted Cruz put out with his

historic views on abortion, had tape of Trump from 2000 talking about how he was in favor of

partial birth abortion and how Trump was not significantly pro-life. And so what does Trump do?

Because Trump is a spoiled rich brat. He sends a cease and desist letter to Ted Cruz. Like, I'm going to sue

you if you don't take down this yet. To which Cruz said, fine, do it. You want to sue me? Let's, let's do this thing. I'll depose you myself. It'll be really fun. I'm looking forward to it. And Trump then said, well, you know, the only reason that Cruz is doing all of this is he's flailing about because he's whining and because he's weak and his campaign's falling apart.

And now I finally understand why his campaign logo looks the way it does. It's a flame. It's because his campaign is going up in flames. So it's Trump still playing kind of teenage bully provocateur and Cruz responding by saying, you know, you want to, you want to shot at the chin, go for it. I think the Cruz has to go

stronger in that direction, not weaker, actually. I think Cruz needs to say to him, and he sort of

did today. He said that, you know, you've spent your entire adult life suing people, but he

actually needs to call him a spoiled brat used to getting his way, who's never had anybody say no to him,

and this time somebody's going to say no to to him because somebody needs to stand up to the blovying idiotic bully that is Donald Trump.

And I think that at this point, Cruz really doesn't have a lot to lose on this score, considering that both Trump and Rubio have been going very hard at Ted Cruz.

Rubio particularly disgusts me a little bit in this because he's saying things that he knows are not true about Cruz because he's trying to reinforce the stigma, the stereotype, the idea about Cruz, that Cruz is a liar and a manipulator. And in a second, I'm going to go through all the supposed lies and manipulation of all of the candidates and we'll actually discuss who's the liar who's the manipulator who actually is responsible

for the prevarication in this campaign but rubio's been saying things about about about Cruz that

simply are not true at this point and that's that's sad because I always thought that rubio was the

...