The O'Reilly Factor 4/26/16 - Bill O'Reilly discuss Donald Trump vs Ted Cruz - John Kasich Alliance, Is economy rigged to favor the rich like Bernie Sanders says, President Obama weak on crime. "As you may have heard, Ted Cruz and John Kasich are working together, trying to deny Donald Trump the delegates he needs to win the Republican nomination outright. Tomorrow Trump is expected to dominate the primaries in the northeast. So by Wednesday he could be close to 1,000 delegates, leaving him a bit more than 200 delegates short of winning the nod. But now Kasich says he will not campaign in Indiana, leaving Cruz to go one-on-one with Trump. In kind, Cruz says he will not campaign in New Mexico and Oregon, so Kasich will take on Trump in those states. That could deny Trump some delegates, especially in Indiana, a winner-take-all state. The Real Clear Politics average in Indiana has Trump at 39%, Cruz 33% and Kasich 19%. So if some Kasich voters go to Cruz, he could defeat Mr. Trump. Trump is sneering at his competition, calling his rivals 'pathetic.' Talking Points believes there is nothing wrong with Cruz and Kasich banding together. Sometimes politics is intense, and that is the only way to deny Trump the delegates. On the other side, I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will be very close to winning the nomination outright. If he arrives in Cleveland and is denied, all hell will break loose. The beneficiary of all of this is Hillary Clinton, who is locked in a tight battle with Bernie Sanders in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Mrs. Clinton is well ahead in Pennsylvania. But she does not have to worry about the Democratic establishment, which is firmly on her side, understanding that Bernie Sanders and his socialist philosophy would run into big trouble in a general election. But the Republican establishment is not in favor of Trump, and that's why the GOP is in such chaos. He may be unstoppable, but anything could happen in Cleveland." The Factor was joined by FNC's Brit Hume, who analyzed the Cruz-Kasich alliance. "The fly in this ointment," he theorized, "is that for the strategy to work Cruz would have to get the lion's share of the potential Kasich voters in order to overtake Trump. That could happen, but it's not definite, and that's the risk of the strategy. And in the Western states if Kasich is campaigning on his own and Cruz drops out, a lot of those votes might go to Trump. So the strategy could backfire and Trump has a base that will not desert him no matter what." The Factor concluded, "The anti-Trump movement has been subsiding somewhat and Donald Trump will clean up tomorrow." Is the Economy Rigged like Bernie Sanders Says:- Senator Bernie Sanders and other leftists frequently claim that the economy is 'rigged' to favor the rich over the poor. Dr. Charles Krauthammer put that hypothesis on his couch and found it flawed. "The word 'rigged' implies some kind of conscious will on the part of those who control the economy to put down the poor," he said. "But I do think that a large percentage of what determines whether you are poor or not depends on the human lottery, who your parents are and where you are born. If you were born in the United States, you won the lottery, but if you were born to a poor single mother without a man in the family you lost the lottery. So to some extent it's true that your life chances are out of your hands to a large extent." The Factor stressed the importance of education, saying, "Public schools have to lay out a pathway to little children and say this is what you have to overcome and here's how to do it."

• published: 26 Apr 2016
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