Ted Cruz takes lead in a National Poll - Interview by Mike Gallagher

Feb 19, 2016

Ted Cruz takes lead in a National Poll - Interview by Mike Gallagher

Donald Trump Falls Behind Ted Cruz in National NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll

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presidential candidate USC senator Ted Cruz senator crews do you notice that

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every time you're on my show it's right after you've received some good news I

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don't know this is an omen or not but this new brand new NBC News-Wall Street

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Journal poll for the first time here up 28 to 26 percentage points

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over Mr. Trump I i don't know this is becoming a pattern here you got good

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news

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Gallagher shows Mike I think that's right maybe it's the biggest cause and effect

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with higher the more I think well congratulations you know of course it's

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frustrating to me to hear people say well is the stolen outlier I love people

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people go to that

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outlier they don't say that got any other pulled it comes out you know

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showing different numbers this has got to be a a real momentum builder for a

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can't attend crews campaign that already has a great deal of momentum well as the

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first national poll in many many months is shown anyone other than Donald Trump

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at first light and I think this is the continuation of what has been building

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for a long long time

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you know you remember before I would be weeks ago all the pundits all pollster

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said we could not win we didn't have a chance to get a min and then election

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night we saw record-shattering historic turn not only did we win but we also won

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with a broad coalition the old Reagan coalition so we want conservatives we

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want evangelicals but we also won Reagan democrats and we won young people ended

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up earning more votes than any republican candidate just really I will

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call and and that's really that's very much the same trajectory that is

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continuing in this poll that we're seeing here on the ground in South

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Carolina the cross country and I think the reason is people understand the

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stakes of this election could not be higher and they don't want to gamble in

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a little roll the dice and then nominate someone you don't know what he's done it

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did you don't know where to stand you know who will listen to I think the

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voters launched a consistent conservative someone has been the same

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yesterday today and tomorrow with me you know what you're gonna get

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spent my entire life as the conservative a social conservative fiscal

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conservative a national security concern that most spent my whole life-fighting

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to defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights and I think that's why we're see

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the old Reagan coalition forming and uniting around our campaign

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you mentioned evangelical Christians of course very important vote in South

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Carolina and around the country in past elections many evangelicals stayed home

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I heard a lot of reporters asked me and I did an interview this morning with the

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BBC and with NPR and people are saying it as because they they know I know

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South Carolina well and there are there's a huge faith-based component to

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the voters of South Carolina and the reporters Shane how is a guy like Trump

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enjoy the kind of support he seems to be getting from evangelical Christians

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isn't a Ted Cruz or even a Marco Rubio a better fit for evangelical Christians

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and frankly, senator your faith is an important part of your campaign you

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shared it with me personally and and and on the air with everybody who knows you

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notice your spiritual path why help understands the evangelical vote and as

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it applies not only to Ted Cruz but perhaps to donald Trump as well well

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look not sure having you know as you noted I I'ma Christian faith is an

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an integral part of who I am but and and we are working hard to campaign and early

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votes from everybody we've had tremendous support that we've got over

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350 pastors across that state of South Carolina that have signed up to support

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our campaign to encourage the congregation to go out the post turn

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around the pattern you observe of so many questions not not showing up in

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voting in 2012 5454 million evangelical Christians did not vote more than half

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of us didn't vote in the 2012 election and if we do that again will lose this

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country and said a lot of an interview that focused on energized in mobilizing

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inspiring people of faith and Donald Trump it is supported my hard thick

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people checked off at Washington they're furious I and i understand exactly why

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Washington has betrayed us both democrats and career politicians on the

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republican side of betrayed us and and Trump has a lot of noise a lot of ball

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you a lot of hot rhetoric and I understand that people are mad at

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Washington naturally attract but I think what we're seeing like is that his

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voters get closer to election they start studying the candidates more closely

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they start looking at their records because if you want someone who says

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they will stand up to Washington the natural question is when did you ever

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stood up to Washington and you know that that is you know if you listen to what

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Donald actually sing Donald saying he'll go to Washington be deal-maker help cut

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deals with with with democrats and he will compromise and and and it's what's

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the reason jimmy carter recently endorsed Arnold formal he was really a

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striking moment by Jimmy Carter was over in England at the house alone and they

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asked about the election, he said you know between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz I

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would pick up truck shop assistant US Attorney carter speaking he said the

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reason is both is malleable he has no fixed set of beliefs we can work with

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him we can get in to do what we want he said Krugman's is not Malley he knows

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what he believed that he will fight for you know what I'll say something that

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I've never said any other context I agree with jimmy carter the end but

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that's why we're saying conservatives they studied together behind us because

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I don't think the voters want someone to cut more deals with Barack Obama and

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Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to grow the death take away our liberties to weaken

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America I think they wanted strong principled consistent concert

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this campaign to take on the the rhetorical level it's taken you know you

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ran a campaign at I believe that showed a video of of mr. Trump in his own words

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and then he's apparently threatening to sue you over that and some of the

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scratch our heads and how do you how do you sue over something that is a public

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record of somewhat somebody said there's the accusation your lying and and and

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even Marco Rubio has gotten involved in their sort of has that surprised you

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shouted across a lot I always think it's unfortunate when candidates make the

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decision to go into the gun and engage in personal attacks as you know my

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opinion and I have been talking a long long time on my approach from day one in

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this campaign has been that if others engage in personal attacks brothers

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engagement insults I'm not gonna respond in town I haven't you ever heard may go

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on air and start launching personal attack the dulcimer Marco Rubio anybody

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else right now I do think policy is fair game focusing on differences among

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record focusing on differences about vision and experience that that's what

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the voters South Carolina initially deserve and expect and the Washington

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post senator rights today that you've got you cannot afford a third-place

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finish in South Carolina your short a neck-and-neck in the polls

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Marco Rubio I always loved these pronouncements from the media about what

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you doin candidates can or can't afford but but can you talk about how important

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it is to do well here in South Carolina and do you expected it would you expect

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to finish in the Washington post has been writing stories in the New York

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Times in the mainstream media for every election that you know it doesn't do act

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his campaign is over they make writing obituaries on this damn paper but David

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launched the day we launched the New York Times said Ted cannot win because

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the Washington elites to spice it up at the post edit nonsense I hope and

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believe will do well here regardless we have a national campaigning deep base of

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support and you want to see the breadth of the support not only did we win Iowa

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with the largest

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vote total anti-republican ever in the history of the aisle but there's just a

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week later we finished a strong third place in New Hampshire a much more

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moderate New England state that everyone said a conservative could not compete to

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be competitive that breadth of support I hope and believe will do well in South

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Carolina but we have a national campaign and I will play it like the reason why I

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think our campaign is surging want conservatives are uniting behind us you

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know you look at the Saturday today I think there really two issues that are

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front and center on the voters' minds one with the passing of Justice Scalia

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Justice Scalia was a lion of the law he was someone I knew personally for twenty

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years an extraordinary conservative and the court now hangs in the balance this

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is not one branch of government is to that are at stake are basic

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constitutional rights we are one justice away from losing the second amendment

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like to keep and bear arms where one justice away from losing on religious

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liberty and I think the voters are looking at the individuals on that stage

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and asking who I know beyond a shadow of a doubt will nominate flight confirmed

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principled conservative jurists it we've been burned too many times with that too

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many republicans who don't care about the court don't fight about the court

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and put liberals on the court agreed and you've done a really done a magnificent

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job in conveying the needy the urgency of the of this of the Supreme Court and

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you know and yet I pick up the papers in rio online today here's a president a

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commander-in-chief who plans to go to Cuba but he wanted he doesn't plan to

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attend justice Antonin Scalia's funeral Saturday which is is just stunning to me you know

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sadly it is par for the course it is I don't know that there's anything

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President Obama can do at this point that surprises going to Cuba I think was

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always in its plan if you look at its foreign policy nationally

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daily indicated in the band and our friends and allies you know one of the

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first things he did when he became president with send the bust of Winston

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Churchill back the United States

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Brian president Winston Churchill and come back to the overall good but but

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but if you look at charles lives in Rhode over Real Clear Politics

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his his decision his refusal to attend justice Scalia funeral does more than

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just insult the memory of Scalia to failure to perform a basic presidential

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duties of course is that Justice Scalia three decades on the court grants or

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visit the direction of American law at the Ronald Reagan was to the presidency

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so Justice Scalia was to the supreme court but you know what we saw something

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like this a couple of years ago what President Obama refused to attend market

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factors for you right now Margaret Thatcher you want to talk about

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historical figure that stood with America that along with Ronald Reagan

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and Pope John Paul with his little in winning the cold war to the Soviet Union

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the American president not to bother to a pair was justice crates and hence 07

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I'm not surprising that the Justice Scalia 0 because he President Obama and

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for that matter Hillary Clinton in in Bernie Sanders they've looked down on

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you and me and just a silly and conserve

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essentially the ignorant map or in flyover country right now Obama summed

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it up in his unguarded moment back in the 2008 election where he described all

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about us as bitter and angry and clinging to our God and are done and you

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know what I'm not bitter but we are angry and he can't have either hard or

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go senator Ted Cruz got a big tonight I know in Greenville through I'm sure

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we'll see you there at the Bon Secour wellness arena Mark Levine's group the

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conservative review hosting a conservative convention and a whole

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bunch of great people including my dear friend Sean Hannity

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people in the upstate of South Carolina all throughout the region can go to

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conservative review dot com for tickets and senator crews I hope you know how

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grateful I always am to you for taking the time you always answer the call in

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join us on the show and it means a lot to our listeners in

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to me and not we wish you nothing but the best this week in South Carolina and

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we're gonna see you on the campaign trail

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well Mike thank you for everything you do thank you for being a voice for

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freedom and he want to see a South Carolina go with it proves that orkut

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crews out or where barnstorming the state and conservative come both on

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Saturday conservatives stand together we're gonna have a very good thing

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safe travels all the best senator cruise thanks again for joining us God bless