Ted Cruz praises Trump as 'instinctual genius' for branding him a liar
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Senator Ted Cruz has praised Donald Trump's "instinctual genius" for branding him "Lyin' Ted" during their bitter 2016 GOP primary battle. Trump repeatedly used the nickname throughout the campaign, while also linking Cruz's father to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The New York Post's Miranda Devine raised the nickname with Cruz on a Wednesday episode of her podcast, Pod Force One. "The man has an instinctual genius," Cruz said. "What was so effective about it was my single strongest attribute was that the voters trusted me, that they trusted that I said what I believed and did what I said." "And so the jiu-jitsu of Trump was to take my greatest strength and make an attack that goes right at it," he said. "And I think he does that instinctually in a very effective way." Cruz also predicted a "fundamental debate" within the GOP over the party's future heading into 2028. Asked whether Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio might simply inherit Tr
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