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Cruz on Graham: 'I’ve never had an event hosted by someone who three weeks earlier publicly called for my murder'

Ted Cruz, reflecting upon the array of Republicans uniting behind his campaign, joked Wednesday about the unusual history behind one of his recent endorsements.

"You know, I have to say, a couple of days ago my colleague Lindsey Graham hosted an event for me at AIPAC. And that really was a first for me," Cruz told a gathering of supporters in Manhattan, referring to a fundraiser the South Carolina senator hosted for him at a Washington, D.C., restaurant on Monday night.

"I’ve never had an event hosted by someone who three weeks earlier publicly called for my murder," Cruz continued. "But what we’re seeing is that old Reagan coalition is coming together.”

Never one to mince words, Graham joked weeks earlier that if Cruz were to be killed on the Senate floor and the Senate conducted the trial, no one would be convicted.

Graham has also said that choosing between Cruz and Donald Trump was like picking "being shot or poisoned"; said it would be "impossible" for Cruz to unify the country; criticized Cruz's "very dark view of America"; ripped him for shutting down the government; called him "just as wrong as Obama, if not worse"; dinged him as an "opportunist" who "hasn't solved any problem"; and predicted that Cruz will get "creamed" in the general election.

Cruz has also picked up the recent backing of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and Utah Sen. Mike Lee.