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Former House Speaker John Boehner said he’d vote for Donald Trump in the general election if he were the Republican presidential nominee, but he wouldn’t vote for Ted Cruz.

“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner called Cruz on Wednesday during a talk at Stanford University, the student newspaper reported. “I have never worked with a more miserable son of a b—h in my life.”

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Boehner’s scathing remarks are the latest sign of Cruz’s poor relationships on Capitol Hill, which the Texas senator has attempted to turn in his favor as he campaigns against what he calls the “Washington cartel.”

Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are trying to deprive Trump of a delegate majority in the waning weeks of the nomination race in order to force an open convention in July.

Boehner, a Ohio Republican who left office in 2015, said he was “texting buddies” with the billionaire Trump and had played golf with him.

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Boehner also mocked Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying, “Oh I’m a woman, vote for me” to suggest she is campaigning on her gender, before adding she was accomplished and smart.