![]() but he's still my friend, and I love him"). Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, left, fired back at former House Speaker John Boehner, right, on April 28 for calling him Lucifer in the flesh. John Boehner / Facebook Lucifer is back, John Boehner said after viewing Ted Cruz’s Wednesday night Republican National Convention speech, according to the former House speaker’s press rep. John Kasich (" requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends. He added that he reached out to Boehner during the government shutdown but that Boehner rejected the offer.Īs for Boehner, he had kinder words for the other candidates: he said he plays golf with Donald Trump and is also "texting buddies" with him, though he had milder praise for Ohio Gov. Truth is, I don't know him that well," Cruz responded on Thursday. It would almost be off-brand for too many senators to love him, as Chang pointed out. That has also helped limit his list of endorsements.īut then, Cruz has been running an anti-establishment campaign, lambasting "Washington insiders" throughout the primary fight. As NPR's Ailsa Chang reported this year, Cruz's role (with House Republicans) in a 2013 government shutdown, plus that time he called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar, helped him make a long list of enemies in the Senate. Boehner Says Hes Never Worked With A More Miserable Son Of A Bitch Than Cruz John Boehner went with radical honesty at a recent college event, also calling presidential candidate Sen. It's making headlines, but Boehner's comment just puts an exclamation point on one of the existing storylines of the election: many of Cruz's colleagues don't like working with him. ![]() (The comment has also inspired a joke site already: now redirects to Cruz's new campaign site,, as NBC News producer Margaret Menefee tweeted on Thursday.) Ted Cruz and his former GOP colleague John Boehner in the latest round of a public spat, after the ex-House Speaker called the Texas senator a jerk. ![]()
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