Tuesday is primary day in Indiana, and Ted Cruz has thrown everything he has into winning the state and stopping Donald Trump's string of victoires. He has spent days campaigning there — and seen his lead over Trump turn into a 15-point deficit, Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show. "Wow, it's almost as if spending time there campaigning hurt him," Colbert said. "Well, you know what they say about Ted Cruz: To know him is to wish you didn't." He marveled over John Boehner calling Cruz a "miserable son of a bitch" and "Lucifer in the flesh," adding, "And Boehner clearly knows Lucifer, because they go to the same tanning salon."
Colbert ended his survey of Cruz's Hoosier humiliation with a clip of the candidate berating a young boy heckling him, suggesting he be spanked for his bad manners. "You know things aren't looking good for the Cruz campaign when they're trying out a new slogan," Colbert said: "Ted Cruz '16 — He Hits Kids."
You can watch the beginning part of Colbert's "Road to the White House" segment below. It focuses on Trump's foreign policy speech last week, and has a joke aimed squarely at grammar nerds: "Trump is so dedicated to putting America first that he will be president of America, the United States of." Peter Weber
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