Ted Cruz: Boehner Let His ‘Inner Trump’ Out

Denies working with the former Speaker of the House

Outgoing Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, sits in the Speaker's chair for the final time as Speaker in the House Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, October 29, 2015. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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• Former House Speaker Goes Rogue

Boehner has been critical of Cruz for trying to shut down the government over Obamacare in 2013 prompting Boehner to call Cruz a “jackass." 

Cruz has since said that “the single biggest mistake” of his attempted shutdown was not explaining his strategy “to elite opinion makers”:

“The single biggest mistake during the Obamacare defund find that I think I made was that I and our allies did not spend enough time explaining the specific strategy to elite opinion makers. There was confusion that made it less effective.”

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• Cruz: ‘Carly may become the first vice president in history to have a very impressive fluency with heart and smiley face emoticons’

The Texas Senator is campaigning in Indiana ahead of the May 3 primary that he hopes to win in an attempt to stop frontrunner Donald Trump from getting a majority of the delegates.