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Rush Limbaugh also addressed Ted Cruz's claim that Donald Trump is too scared to debate him. | Getty Limbaugh: Kasich acting 'testy' about his pact with Cruz

For a man whose team just reached a deal with a political adversary, John Kasich does not sound like he is in on it, Rush Limbaugh suggested Monday on his radio show.

"What is he so testy about? They made an accord," Limbaugh said after playing a clip of Kasich's contentious encounter with members of the media grilling the Ohio governor about the pact with Ted Cruz's campaign at a Philadelphia diner. "The reporters are coming along, they're asking about the accord, and Kasich's acting like there hasn't been an accord, or he's acting like it's not that big a deal. It is a big deal."

During that interview, Kasich told reporters that despite not allocating resources to winning Indiana on May 3, he would not tell his supporters to vote for Cruz.

"They want it to come across as a big deal," Limbaugh said, suggesting that Kasich was acting "incredibly testy."

Limbaugh then played a clip from Cruz speaking with reporters in Borden, Indiana, about his strategy, in which the Texas senator said Trump cannot earn a majority of the 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination.

"Yeah, when Cruz says that, see, here come the Trumpsters. 'Yeah, yeah, 'cause you're out there cheating! You're out there disenfranchising people! You're out there stealing delegates that are Donald's,' and so on. That stuck," Limbaugh said. "You heard the calls we had last week from Trumpists who tried to explain to me why it is that they think delegates are being stolen, and it doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong; the perception is — and this is all part of this narrative that's being created."

As far as Cruz's claim that Trump is too scared to debate him, Limbaugh mused, "Does Trump look scared to anybody? Does Trump look like he's afraid to go anywhere?"

Both Kasich and Cruz are doing exactly what Mitt Romney advocated in his March address, in which he urged the party to support candidates in states in which they are better positioned to pick off support from Trump.

"So you could say that Romney's already outlined this strategy that has now been taken up by Cruz and Kasich," Limbaugh remarked.