| Can we all admit it's been a long primary season? Iowa seems like forever ago. We don't even remember who Jeb Bush is. And we've still got 12 weeks until the conventions. So it's understandable that even onlookers like us are getting cranky, let alone the folks actually running for president. |
| And on Thursday, people got a little cross. Mostly at Ted Cruz. |
| Boehner and the b-word |
| You remember John Boehner, right? The former House speaker and Obama's one-time foil? Here's what he had to say Wednesday about Cruz, according to the Stanford Daily: |
| "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." |
| Well, then. |
| Boehner, a perpetually tan guy known for crying, also predicted that he would vote this fall for Donald Trump, a perpetually tan guy known for being angry. They're "texting buddies," Boehner said. |
| Ahead of a Thursday rally in Indiana, Cruz said that Boehner "allowed his inner Trump to come out." |
| Cruz to Kasich: We were never an item |
| So rumor has it that Cruz's campaign and John Kasich's campaign began seeing each other over the weekend before going official Sunday as a couple (of campaigns coordinating together to stop Trump). |
| Trouble in paradise came Tuesday, when neither Cruz nor Kasich won a single darn primary. Then, on Thursday, Cruz broke Kasich's heart. |
| "I recognize the media is all eager to talk about an alliance," Cruz told reporters. "There is no alliance." |
| Whoa. Public breakup. Cruz later tried to let Kasich down gently, telling friends at a rally that Kasich "is a good and honorable man" but that "he has no path to winning." |
| Kasich's strategist countered with a cryptic tweet in return: "I can't stand liars." |
| And here we thought Kasich was the kind of candidate you could bring home to mom and dad. (He'd love to come over for dinner!) |
| Califooooornia, here we cooooooome! |
| Between the Kasich breakup and Boehner calling his mom a b-word, Thursday marked another day in what has already been a rough week for Cruz. Not to mention Wednesday, when Carly Fiorina sang a soft lullaby to his children on national TV. |
| But worry not, #CruzNation, because Ted's got an ace up his sleeve: California. |
| The Golden State's primary is relevant for the first time since Reagan, and Cruz has been organizing there since last summer. As he did in Colorado, Cruz has set up a ground game designed to peel away delegates that is "light years ahead of Trump," one expert said. |
| Also betting on California: Bernie Sanders, who said he's cutting "hundreds" of staffers in order to streamline his organization ahead of the state's June 7 contest. |
| If Cruz or Sanders end up taking a stand in California, it may just be as epic as that episode of The OC where Seth Cohen stands on top of a coffee cart to proclaim his love for Summer. |
| Man, the theme song for that show is good. |
| More from the campaign trail |
| • | Trump plays the "woman's card" card against Clinton (USA TODAY) | | • | He's never served in public office, but Trump did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night (Indianapolis Star) | | • | The super PAC formed to help Lindsey Graham win the White House aims lower, decides to focus on Senate races instead (USA TODAY) | |
| Caitlyn Jenner re-enters the 2016 fray via the women's room |
| Gold-medal Olympian and occasional pundit Caitlyn Jenner took a swipe at Cruz, too, by urinating in the women's room at Trump Tower. Cruz, whom Jenner once offered to advise, has come out in support of a North Carolina law barring transgender people such as Jenner from using restrooms of the gender they identify with. |
| "And by the way, Ted, nobody got molested," Jenner said in a video about the incident. |
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