Ted Cruz has now responded to Chris Christie’s lies from last week over the Harvey aid, telling Christie, frankly, to go back to the beach because nobody cares what he has to say:

THE HILL – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) savaged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this week after he criticized Cruz’s request for federal aid in response to Hurricane Harvey, telling the Republican governor to “go back to the beach.”

In an interview with The New York Times published Friday, Cruz said he is “quite confident that nobody in Texas gives a flip what Chris Christie has to say.”

“And it seems not many people in New Jersey do either,” he said, an apparent reference to Christie’s languishing approval ratings. “Chris should go back to the beach.”

Last week, Christie took aim at Cruz in an interview with CNN, calling him a hypocrite and accusing him of “playing politics” in 2012 when he opposed a more than $50 billion relief package for those affected by Hurricane Sandy, which struck New York and New Jersey that year.