Rep. Pete King: 'I think I'll take cyanide' if Ted Cruz is the nominee

If Ted Cruz and Rand Paul had a congressional arch enemy, you can bet that it would be ruddy-faced New York Representative Pete King (R). King has been a consistent "wacko-bird hater" for a few years now, and (unlike others) his anger has only grown as time passes. We're sure King was relieved when Rand Paul dropped out of the 2016 race, but as the field winnowed he was still faced with a pesky Ted Cruz problem. Just in case you were laboring under the delusion that he would fall in line should Cruz become the eventual nominee, King has decided to make his position crystal clear: (video below)

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“First of all, in case anybody is confused, I am not endorsing Ted Cruz, I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I’ll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.”

Yikes. "I hate Ted Cruz." If only clowns like King were as opposed to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as they are to a pair of constitutionalist Republicans.

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