Social media ridicules Ted Cruz after he calls voters for Trump



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Donald Trump got some help from a former nemesis on Thursday.

Sen. Ted Cruz, who battled Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, called voters and urged them to vote for the controversial businessman. Cruz officially endorsed Trump last month.

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Watch him phone-banking for Trump: pic.twitter.com/mlcw2ojGqp — Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) October 6, 2016

This comes months after Cruz caused a stir at the GOP convention and refused then to outright back Trump. And who can forget when Trump re-tweeted an unflattering photo of Cruz's wife, Heidi, and suggested the Houstonian's father may have been involved in the Kennedy assassination?

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Click through the slideshow above to see the best reactions to Cruz calling voters to support Trump.