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Donald Trump addresses the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference at the Verizon Center March 21, 2016, in Washington, D.C. | Getty Trump: Jeb endorsement hurts Cruz

Jeb Bush’s support for Ted Cruz will be detrimental to the Texas senator’s campaign, Donald Trump suggested Wednesday.

“I think having Jeb’s endorsement hurts Lyin’ Ted,” Trump tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Jeb spent more than $150,000,000 and got nothing. I spent a fraction of that and am first!”

The former Florida governor announced his endorsement of Cruz earlier Wednesday, hailing his one-time rival as a “consistent, principled conservative” who has shown he can beat Trump, as he did Tuesday with his victory in the Utah caucuses.

“For the sake of our party and our country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena, or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee and reverse President Obama’s failed policies,” Bush said in a statement released by Cruz’s campaign.

The New York billionaire was seemingly impervious to the barrage of attacks Bush launched at the Republican front-runner before he suspended his own campaign last month. Bush bowed out of the Republican primary following a fourth-place finish in South Carolina, despite being bolstered by a record-setting super PAC that raised more than $150 million.

Trump revived his signature “low-energy” insult Wednesday in an earlier tweet, in which he said he couldn’t blame Bush for backing Cruz and took credit for driving the once-presumptive nominee “into oblivion!”

“Low energy Jeb Bush just endorsed a man he truly hates, Lyin’ Ted Cruz,” he wrote. “Honestly, I can’t blame Jeb in that I drove him into oblivion!”

For Cruz’s part, he said he was honored to have Bush’s support and cited it as “further evidence that Republicans are continuing to unite behind our campaign.”