mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann. with all due respect to hillary clinton's list of favorite new york foods, what is this? chopped liver? happy tax/boston marathon/animal crackers day. campaign- ted cruz's is writing a high of political wrangling in wyoming and georgia where his delegates swept up state conventions, narrowing donald trump's lead. been closer to

securing the republican nomination, and yet, he remains miles and miles yonder. he would have to win more than 80% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination before the convention, and trump is expected to diminish those chances with a likely win in new york tomorrow. it is no supplies that on a "good morning america" townhall, cruz was asked by a voter if he would ever consider being trumps running mate. >> i have zero interest whatsoever. [applause] there are a lot of reasons, but perhaps the simplest is, if donald is the nominee, hillary wins by double digits, and i don't think there is anything we can do to change that. john: that's not the first time ted cruz has said that. he has said it before. he said that will say it again. do you taken seriously? mark: i believe there is a

convention scenario, the third most likely in my mind, after trump winning an outright majority, when talk happens or if talk happens of a third candidate, john kasich or someone else who is way behind those twoicate tally, guys combining is the simplest way to un-deadlock the nomination -- convention. john: donald trump would say, he's a liar. mark: they would both say, it's just politics. john: here is the thing. there's never been anybody i know of who has been offered the and when offered to be on the opportunity -- offered the opportunity to be on the ticket say no. there is sense for anyone running for president to accept in advance the notion of an understudy job, but when you are offered the chance to be the inond most powerful person the united states, the offer is

too tempting. john: ted cruz says, trump will lose. why would i want to be on a losing ticket? for a variety of reasons. as the vice presidential nominee, it would give me a leg up the next time. i don't think those guys would walk away and let a third piece or -- third person be the nominee. mark: it is fair to say there's a lot of acrimony between the two of them, but they are both antiestablishment kind of candidates. they are more aligned than they are at odds. mark: i think it only happens to break a deadlock. earlybird donald trump was up, busy tweeting away about the texas senator, writing es weren "gma," the cruz

asked about the tone of the republican race and how it is to be on the wrong end of trump's personal attacks. here is what heidi kruse said. >> one of the qualities i have admired about ted is how incredibly unflappable he is. things don't bother ted that bother most people. a reason for that that i have seen over the past 16 years is that ted is in politics for the issues, to focus on the issues, to get things done, and he does depersonalize a lot of these attacks. if that mark: sounds familiar to you, that is because ted cruz said exactly the same thing in his interview with us on friday. >> this should not be personal. it's not about him. it's not about me. it's about the country. it's about, who has real solutions? millions of americans are hurting. wages have stagnated. what i'm focused on is, how do we bring manufacturing jobs to new york? how do we see wages wise?

how do we see young people coming out of school to job offers? what i focused on is lifting the burden of washington on small business, repealing obamacare, passing a flat tax, pulling back the regulators, stopping amnesty, and ending sanctuary cities. those are the solutions we need to the real problem, and it's why we are getting so much support. mark: do you believe ted cruz when he says he takes this stuff less personally? john: donald trump calls the man lying ted cruz. i'm joking. that was one of the most boilerplate kind of answers ted cruz gave us in the whole interview. i think it would be hard, if he is a human being, to not personalize the attacks, the nature of the attacks donald trump has launched against him and insult bingley about his about hissultingly wife. driving ted cruz is capable of depersonalize and? i haven't seen any evidence of that.

trump has gotten under his skin. mark: we are deeply in disagreement. i believe the stuff on his wife did bother him, and i believe he's a lot like dick cheney. his attitude basically was, what do i care what someone else says? i think ted cruz has had an advantage in this race because he doesn't personalize this stuff. it doesn't get under his skin. he gets what politics is like. i think it's a big advantage for him, and he's better at letting it go off his back. i will agree with you that i think he may be a little better than the worst politicians, but it seems to me that throughout this race, there have been moments when he has been less discombobulated by donald trump's attacks than jeb was. mark: or marco rubio or john kasich. 1 john: john: especially surrounding his wife, i think it cut pretty close to the bone. it affects his

performance, but it doesn't get to him. john: as donald trump's team positions himself for a big victory tomorrow, his supporters are expressing optimism about to secure the republican nomination on the first ballot. while ted cruz continues to outmaneuver trump at the state and county convention, friends of the donald are going further, saying publicly that trump must win the nomination on a first ballot. is that smart? mark: i understand what they are doing. some of them are saying it because they think it's true. i don't think it's entirely true, although it's looking more and more that way. they're trying to say it to encourage people to get on board, but man, i think it's to say, we can't win on a second ballot. that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. john: i think you want to say, let's take care of this on the first ballot. there are a lot of ways to exhort your potential supporters without talking about the

doomsday scenario. they are headed to a complicated scenario. i think it is true that if he doesn't win on the first ballot, he's very unlikely to win the nomination, but it seems to me to serve less purpose than you think it serves in terms of motivation. i think you should be like, let's go out there and win these primaries. mark: lets a truck performs very well over the next few weeks. on the second ballot, he would have fewer votes, but i don't think through have a majority. then trump says to him, be my running mate. let's and this now. has twois message audiences. one is the media, no upside in telling the media it's do or die. i don't think it motivates any potential voters. voters don't think that way. they think, rally around donald trump. mark: it might motivate some delegates who are undone. john: maybe a few, but you've got to be like, let's win those primaries. next, if bernie sanders

meets the pope and a win takes pictures, does it make a sound? we will answer that metaphysical, confusing question right after this. john: i like that question. it's funny. [laughter] ♪

mark: it was objectively another banner bernie weekend in gotham city. bernie sanders held his biggest sunday, drawing 28,000 people to prospect park in brooklyn. despite that love and sanders belated support for a bill that would allow victims of 9/11 victims to sue saudi arabia, the vermont senator has shown no concrete signs of closing the gap with hillary clinton in new

york state. polls, empire state sanders still trails the democratic front-runner by low double digits. with all his time on the ground and all the advertising that is running, why does bernie sanders not seem to have moved his numbers in new york? john: on the basis of the historical trend, i find it puzzling. in the end, what it speaks to more than anything is that hillary clinton's firewall is much more durable than some of us thought it would be, that it's very strong, and she has played her cards right, especially on the issue of guns, which matters in a lot of places where he has campaigned hard. mark: she has worked the state hard, and she has flaunted her expertise about how to run in new york. i think she has had may be more good days than he has, that certainly as many, and she has done what she has done from the beginning when it was clear to her bernie sanders was the main opponent,

she has tried to use the issue of guns and gun control to blunt attacks on things like wall street. she has not paid any price for doing things like hugging him on the minimum wage, fracking, or on trade issues. change he has failed to the dynamic of the race by doing anything dramatic. he has campaigned hard, debated hard, but he hasn't done anything to change the dynamic. john: the gun issue has been a huge problem for bernie sanders throughout this fight, and maybe new york city, more than any other place in the country, it's a powerful argument for her. you have seen her surrogate connectivity, very powerful. john: on friday, and in fact for much of last week, mark and i expressed skepticism about the wisdom of bernie sanders leaving new york in the middle of this

primary campaign to speak at a vatican city conference on economic inequality. here's a quick refresher. >> given where he stands right now in this new york race, it would've been better for him to fly to place called rome, new york. mark: i thought they might have some secret reason why this trip was good. john: the pope was going to show up. mark: bernie sanders wanted to go. he thought it was in on her to be included. he got some coverage, but man, it makes no more sense to me than it did before. i predicted it was going to be canceled. it might has well -- as well have been. john: it turns out bernie sanders did get to meet with the pope privately, though there were no selfies or pictures documenting the encounter. giving everything we now know, -- given everything we now know, including this people session, are you having second thoughts about your skepticism, your criticism of the trip to the vatican? mark:mark: it takes a giant man to admit he was wrong. even though there are no pictures of that meeting, bernie sanders feels really good about

that trip. are you congratulating yourself for admitting you were wrong? mark: no. i don't think he would have won the new york primary had he stayed. i think he would have continued campaigning in a workmanlike way. district made him feel good. he felt spiritually good. he felt good about going. john: he's a happy man. mark: glad he met the pope, honored to participate in this conference. good thing he went. john: to the day i die, i will a seasoned not political veteran the campaign strategist or veteran, and i'm sure deep in their hearts, many people around bernie sanders himself -- mark: not that deep. john: they would have said, we would have rather spent this day in new york. if you lose is the democratic nomination by 10 points or 12 points, he will at least be about to look back on this and say, it didn't cost me the primary. i continue to believe that if you loses by a point or two

points, people in his inner circle, they will think, i'm not sure that was worth it. mark: the thing i'm eager to discuss with tad devine -- they did this huge rally last night in brooklyn. they did a huge rally in washington square park. why didn't they frontload those? john: i don't know the answer. mark: fable new york state dining critic hillary clinton published a list of her favorite empire state restaurants and foodstuffs on the website thrillist. it's quite a list. john and i read it earlier this morning. we went through the list, which includes everything from upstate pizzerias and barbecue joints to the midtown establishment hillstone and red rooster. review her review. how good is clinton's new york food list? john: i want to start by admitting the following.

many of these restaurants are utterly unfamiliar to me because many of them are outside the five boroughs. i would say it's a very political list. the truth is, i know the restaurants the clintons go to. they are great restaurants. i could name six or seven places that i know they love that are not on this list. they aren't on this list because they would've displaced places from geographically important spots around the state she is trying to take off the list so she has a restaurant in every county in new york. mark: you are psychotic. fantastic list. everything on that list i am familiar with is good. she's the senator from new york. john: i'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. mark: it is -- i won't say that i'm senator senator clinton did it all herself, but i am pretty confident she has eaten at every place, and it is a well curated --

she didn't say best. these are the places she likes. i would say the clinton campaign has largely been a competent operation. the creation and execution of this list -- john: it's a political list. mark: political backed up by quality food. john: here's the one thing i can tell you, red rooster is very good. mark: staff work, well done. john: really well done. senior, bernie sanders's advisor tad devine joins us on set. we will talk about tomorrow's primary and what comes next after these words from our sponsors.

john: our first tonight maybe feeling a little sunburn from yesterday's massive rally in prospect park in brooklyn. , the vermont senators senior advisor, thanks for stopping by. i want to talk about the news. complaining, upset following some complaint against the clinton campaign for its coordinated fundraising in hollywood. explain what that is about. tad: there has been a lot of reporting in recent days about the way these joint fundraising operating. the clinton campaign appears to be holding out to the public that they are doing this great service to the party, raising enormous amounts of money, spreading the wealth around. they are raising a lot of money. they are funneling it back into the campaign. they are paying overhead costs. they are spending millions of dollars for low dollar donors. they spent foregoing dollars to million.2 million -- $4 to raise $3.2 million. john: are you suggesting they are violating the fund-raising limits?

tad: i think that is a question that needs to be investigated. there is a limit of $2700 for individual contributions. we need some more transparency. our campaign is not going to be involved in a system that is not in full accordance with the law, and also, bernie is concerned that many of the things, the reforms that president obama tried to implement them with party fundraising, we are moving away from that. he feels we should be moving in the opposite direction, towards the kind of system he has developed himself and implemented, which is to move away from super pacs and bundled contributions. mark: let's talk about the race at 30,000 feet. last week, jeff weaver was at that chair. he said he had a secret document showing the path to nomination for bernie sanders. 60%ming you all do not win to 40% tomorrow, is there still a mathematical path? tad: there is.

the skepticism amongst this -- john: the people who do math. i've spent a lot of time counting delegates through the years. in the last couple weeks, we have made up ground. we picked up a few delegates over the weekend in colorado. a lot of our people showed up even though there was a blizzard. i believe we can get there by the end, and by get there, i mean, i believe we can have more pledged delegates than hillary clinton by the voting ends in june. mark: give us an example of states where you will make up massive ground. john: to be clear, you are 195 behind. tad: we were 326 behind in the middle of march. there are 1675 pledged delegates to be selected. we have to make up less than 200. here is where. in places like oregon, i think we are going to have a very strong victory. there are 807 pledged delegates on the seventh of june,

including a huge hall in california. by the time we get to california, i believe we can be in a position to win across the board in california, every demographic group, and win a sizable and substantial victory. the caucus process is a living delegate calendar, and it is as backloaded as the delegate allocation calendar is frontloaded in the primary process. we are going to continue to win delegates and delegates and pick up three or four here, four or five there. you win four delegates in a state convention, and you take those delegates away from your opponent, you get eight net. john: answer the question that mark and i debated earlier in the show. every state i have seen so far when bernie sanders has had time on the ground, time on the air, he has closed the gap and often won those states. he has not moved the needle in new york. why is the needle not moving more?

tad: we will see how far the needle moves tomorrow. the real clear politics average of michigan was down 21% the day we won it. let's give him one more day. i agree with you. kind of't seen the public poll movement that we have seen elsewhere. one of our strongest groups, independence, cannot vote in new york. the restrictions on getting people into the process, like when you can change party affiliation, was before we began to grow. three, this is hillary clinton's home state. she is well known and well-liked here. she has real standing with voters here. i think there are a lot of places where she has an advantage, but having said that, i will tell you -- if you were out there yesterday with 30,000 people, and hopefully tonight, if you were in washington square it. weekend, you can feel bernie really does get things going. we want to win a lot of

delegates, and next week, we've got five contests. mark: you are not predicting you will win tomorrow, are you? tad: i'm not. i think you have caught me predicting. i felt we could win in wisconsin. even the clinton poling said we were 25% down in nevada a month out, and we went down 5%. after nevada, we decided we were going to take a long path to the nomination. i saw senator bennett at the colorado convention. senator leahy has said the same thing. senators who are endorsing hillary clinton are saying, we are going to look at who has the most pledged delegates. the more people start saying that, i think it's going to become apparent that there is a road for us. mark: there is a spat back and forthmark: between superdelegates -- about superdelegates. are you fine winning this having superdelegates put you over the top? tad: i think both candidates

need superdelegates. mark: if she has more elected pledged delegates, you think it is fine to reverse the lead by winning more superdelegates? tad: i do. i think superdelegates have an obligation to do what is right for the party. john: don't go anywhere. you are going to stay here. theill be back with more on highs and lows of this democratic race, especially the sanders campaign. ♪

mark: we are here with bernie sanders' senior advisor tad devine.

you are in brooklyn last night at this huge rally with your daughters. are they bernie supporters? tad: absolutely. they are under 30. mark: most americans have never been to these events. tell people what they are like. tad: over one million have, and i think that itself is a credit to the system. it's a good atmosphere. there is some entertainment provided, and then bernie comes in for an hour to an hour and 15 minutes, and he talks about his agenda. people really get excited. you can see it in their faces. mark: he has been an extraordinary candidate in terms of crowd size, pretty close to unprecedented for a candidate not in the general election. does that matter? does that have meaning, or do you collect e-mail a dresses and have voter contact? tad: we did in iowa and new hampshire. we did a lot of organizing around events.

yes, it matters and helps with the organizing, but i think the thing it does -- we are going to play this out on a big stage in california -- he can go into these places, and by we are going to try to do it by plane in california. he can get this tremendous energy unleashed in communities with his presence. mark: let me second guess one rescission. the one lastes, night and in washington square park, why not do those at the front end of the primary to send a message to folks that he could have draw here and keep the momentum going? on the wanted to get in ground. we wanted to build. we felt it was good to have more momentum at the end. 95% of the people who vote in the new york primary are going to vote tomorrow. if it had been early vote, we would have done earlier rallies. john: you pointed out we've got a long way to go. i'm going to ask you a question victorynot a ballot question. this is a unique campaign. talk about the high points of

the campaign, one or two things you know you will remember for the rest of your life. tad: the fact that we could go from that announcement we made on april 30 and in less than a month put together a 5000-person event in burlington and a campaign presence in iowa and new hampshire, that's a gigantic moment. the early rallies that happened spontaneously in minnesota and wisconsin, and the west coast trip, that was indicative this was something special and unique. in the debates, the progress he has made from the first debate where he walked on that national time, andthe first the last one where he showed he was able to engage in a serious way -- there have been a lot of moments. we were 15 points down in iowa a month out. you mark: have known him for a long time, and i know he's a constant guy, but what is something he has done that has surprised you? to see him move so far so fast as a candidate for

president, to be able to walk on that big stage and command it the way he does, particularly in these large-scale events, for someone i've known in a smaller setting, to see him go on that large stage and take it over has been impressive. john: on this show, we have given a fair amount attention to jane sanders. from the beginning, she was an influential part of your campaign. she would make arguments that he needed to show more of his human side. can you think of an example where she has weighed in on a policy matter or strategic matter and has had a positive effect? tad: she is with him all the time and talks to him constantly about issues and policy. that's just a routine thing. i can't think of anything in particular. jane is a big part of the campaign in a serious and substantive way. she has helped me with the advertising. she approves the ads. the "america" ad, she had a change in it.

john: let's say for the record she is way more influential than weaver. tad: we all know that, but i can say that the job jeff has done in this campaign is incredible. i can't tell you how much respect and affection i have for him. it's been to build this campaign from where we started. he deserves a lot of credit. mark: you have done tons of campaigns. this one is unique and special in a lot of ways. what are two things you have learned from this campaign you would teach in campaign management school? tad: the age of campaigning affected so much by technology. the smartphone is the most powerful weapon in politics. i used to talk about that with my students at nyu. to be able to take that phone out and push a button and for millions of dollars to come in, to organize the way we have, 45 million volunteer phone calls -- i think that is lesson number one.

lesson number two is an old lesson. if you have the right message and a messenger who is credible, you can overcome insurmountable odds. message still matters. technology and message are the takeaways. john: is there anything you have come to appreciate about heller clinton that you didn't appreciate before? tad: she is just so formidable and disciplined as a candidate. president obama has that skill, as well. i think we see it every day in his presidency. mark: in this race, a lot has been made of some slip ups or perceived slip ops he has had. i want to ask you about two of them. one, "the new york daily news." tad: jeff said to me, you should read the transcript. i had three hours to myself. i think i counted him being interrupted 23 times. he went income, and it was very adversarial. people had their takeaways that were fundamentally unfair.

mark:mark: what about his not knowing that we don't use subway tokens? tad: they both have subway incidents. we can live with that one. mark: thanks very much. best of luck to you tomorrow. next up, the yen and yang of political soothsaying. you can guess who is going to join us in the next few minutes as we go to commercial break. ♪

john: welcome back. we are joined by two people at opposite ends of the set and opposite ends of the political spectrum, although partly they agree on everything. former chief of staff to al gore, mike feldman, and

communications director to george w. bush, nicole wallace. ,hey are both swell people despite their differences and similarities. what could happen tomorrow that is within the realm of the plausible that would surprise you? nicole: nothing. trump, i think, is going to win big. the notion that wisconsin was anything other than an opportunity for the people who were arguing for him to do some things differently was never the case. i think it strengthened the hand of people who wanted him to hate-tweet a little less and wanted him to pull back from this media exposure. he strengthen those people by losing in wisconsin. some necessary adjustments, and i think he is in a great position. the democratic race might be closer than people thought it would be. on the republican side, it will be, as everyone predicted, a huge night for trump.

john: tad devine was sitting here saying, give me another day. we will see how it closes. what do you expect and what would surprise you on the democratic side? i suppose bernie sanders could do better than the polls are showing, and we would be having a conversation about his , but i don't think anything is going to fundamentally change the outcome. i don't think there is anything that could happen tomorrow that makes it him more likely to get the nomination. on the republican side, i agree with nicole. i think it is likely that donald trump will be closer to that magic number tomorrow or wednesday, and then the question ?s, what is the opening how close can he get to that magic number. is he close enough that momentum takes them on the first ballot, or does the stop-trump movement actually have any gas left?

mark: here is what has surprised me the most. out of wisconsin, you had two hurt,al front runns coming to their home base, the media capital of the world. if you look at what crews, kasich, and sanders have done, they have basically done traditional campaigning. john kasich gave one big speech, but otherwise, they have done traditional things, nothing would change -- that would change the dynamic. nicole: i think the kasich campaign was disheartened /disoriented by the fact that the establishment started to move towards cruz. i think the rubio case against record on national security. has managed to mystify some bygs of the establishment consolidating people who strongly disagree with him. bill kristol and others have made the case against his worldview.

mark: not enough to be a challenger in new york. mike: the other thing he has been doing is a methodical, intentional search for delegates. by the way, not all of those have been in new york. this will matter to him if it becomes a fight at the convention. nicole: i think this is where he loses by winning. yes, he's winning. yes, he may end up on the second ballot having more delegates than trump, but i think what trump has done, he has set up this narrative over a rigged system where you don't have to be a republican or a trump supporter to walk around and say, yeah, it's rigged. that has sunk in, and people believe that. john: explain to me how this works. i'm on the record saying i think trump has played this beautifully, and the argument he is making sits his brand and the energy behind him. he's doing this as a two-track thing. he has hired paul manafort. he's hired require late.

wiley. how does that contradiction not catch up with him other through the press corps or, more broadly, his opponents making a point? he knows and smart people have been telling him at the end, that will take you so far. if you don't get the nomination on the first ballot, if you don't have the magic number, this becomes an inside game. this becomes direct indication to people who matter. who pushes their lovers? delegate get enough votes to win? he's got no choice. he is behind in that front or that is something the crew campaign has been excelling at. nicole: trump is interesting in that he has not made any adjustments to what is really a non-campaign campaign. he's running against the guy with the best campaign organization on either side.

he is running a bush 2004-like campaign. ted cruz is running a superb campaign. it's technically perfect. they are finding their voters. trump hasn't -- he has done the things you have mentioned, but he isn't playing that game. pulpit.ing the bully it's a gamble, but it seems very trump-like. mark: we've got new york and some other northeastern states. donald trump looks poised to do well. he is in a fight with the republican national committee, and the republican national committee is fighting back. they are saying, we don't care who the nominee is. reince previous can stay as chairman. if you were advising reince previous, would you tell him to keep fighting with donald trump or put his head down? nicole:nicole: he's in an untenable situation, and i think he's winning the temperament game. he's not blustery, and i don't think you can fight trump with bluster. he's letting trump on the

bluster game. saying on the sunday shows, i'm not me to take this personally. trump is making this very personal. kelly,fight with megyn when someone attacks you are professionalism, you have to stand up, cleave that off. the rnc is an institution that has integrity, had integrity, and on my watch, will always have the integrity the party deserves. i would advise him to always defend the honor and integrity and ethics of the rnc. do mark: think if trump is the nominee, reince gets to stay as chairman? mike: i doubt it. he wants to. he can't win a public fight with donald trump, and he's not going to be able to collaborate with him. this is a conversation he is having with other leaders in the republican party who are like, stand up straight, make sure we don't come out the wrong end, and if the worst happens, how do we protect the senate?

has one eye on those audiences. the public fight is hard for him. john: you were talking about rigged systems on the republican side and some of the craziness on the republican side. on the democratic side, it is institutionalized. it is openly rigged with the superdelegates, and there is a reason why that is. first in controversy, 2008, then in 2016, is that a tenable system for a millennial democratic party to have a lot of establishment grantees? mike: it's tenable. i think this race on both sides has opened up a conversation about the process, people's dissatisfaction with the process. whether donald trump is the nominee or not, whether bernie sanders has a chance or not, those two races have made an impact on both parties. the energy and anger about the way the political process is run, this isn't the last cycle

we are going to be talking about this. nicole: i agree with that. trump and sanders have yanked the curtains down on what used to be an opec process, not because it's a secret, but it's just ok -- opaque. threatened, inms peril by these establishment i think sanders on the democratic side and trump have yanked the curtains down. on the republican side, they have let them on fire. i think there will be a cycle-long conversation about election reform. i don't think anything happens, but i think it becomes a conversation. john: i feel like in the age of transparency and small "d" democratic policies, the democratic system has become more democratic and more transparent. i think the superdelegates will have to go at some point soon. nicolle: we will take them. [laughter] mike: both parties need them. feel disconnected

from the pluck a process -- mark: if hillary clinton wins, she is not going to want to get rid of the superdelegates. mike: she will have to contend with that, and she will have to contend with keeping those voters engage. mark: what are the odds that donald trump, if he is the nominee, unifies the party? coming out of cleveland? nicolle: 50/50. john: that's all we have time for. you don't get to speak. when we come back, the moment you have all been waiting for. cruzball, cruzing for a foozin'. mark: ♪ good timewe save time for that.

mark: are you ready for some foosball? on friday, john and i sat down with ted cruz near the syracuse sports hall of fame for an in-depth interview about politics and policy. what we didn't show you is what happened after the interview, a tense, adrenaline-fueled, once-in-a-lifetime game of foosball. it was the two of us versus senator cruz and one of his aides. let's go to the videotape. ♪ mark: it was the game that champions played out in their dreams. john: we knew senator cruz had waited his whole life for this moment. what he didn't know was, so did we. mark: from the kickoff come it was a blood off -- bloodbath. dyin' ted. >> we shall see.

john: we heard rumors he had the quickest wrists in the u.s.. and in canada. mark: i knew the only way to beat him was to get under his skin, which meant non-relenting amount of trash talk. this is the quietest ted cruz has been in years. what kind of job security do you have? john: mistakes were made. mark: in game one, we played our hearts out, and we were all tied up. then, victory. john: game one was ours, but that was just the beginning. he's got some halfway decent smack talk. this time , cruz was ready. mark: we called him the princeton sledgehammer. he just kept scoring. 2-1, 3-1, 4-1. >> i don't like to lose.

mark: it was a massacre. john: everything was on the line, and tensions were running high. mark: then something amazing happened. cruz had the ball, and he made a crucial error. he was clearly getting nervous. john: he scored on us, and then we scored right back. mark: we could tell he was trying to distract us with weird jokes. >> my intent is that like human -- the aztecs, the mayans. john: we got too cocky. >> do you need to take some personal time? mark: it was down to just one goal, and there was no room for any mistakes. john: i had the ball, and i -- i -- [sighs] the rest is history. is,: the moral of the story

ted cruz -- >> this was cleveland right here. life is full of moments. some of them fly by and you forget in an instant. others live on with you forever. ♪ our thanks to current champions ted cruz and his aide bruce redden. you can listen to us on the radio at bloomberg 99 .1 fm in the washington, d.c. area. john: it's time for everyone's

favorite game. engage in hypotheticals.

john: if you were "the new york post" headline writer and if hillary clinton loses the democratic primary, your headline would be what? whaaa"new york state of ?" john: if it were me, it would be york." all right. we've got a lot more 26 and coverage all the time on bloombergpolitics.com -- o 2016 coverage all the time on bloombergpolitics dr.. west,"up on "bloomberg emily chang talks to -- until then, sayonara. ♪

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