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Sen. Ted Cruz said The Drudge Report "no longer" covers news. Cruz: Drudge is an attack site for Trump's campaign

The Drudge Report headlines whatever the Trump campaign is pushing, Ted Cruz said on Monday.

The Texas senator was speaking to conservative radio host Mike Slater when he was asked what he thought about the conservative aggregation site, particularly their “anti-Christian headlines.”

“In about the past month the Drudge Report has basically become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign. And so every day they have the latest Trump attack. They’re directed at me,” Cruz said. “By all appearances, Roger Stone now decides what’s on Drudge, and most days they have a six-month-old article that is some attack on me, and it’s — whatever the Trump campaign is pushing that day will be the banner headline on Drudge.”

Cruz also lamented the website's lack of primary and caucus coverage.

“By the way, they no longer cover news,” Cruz said. “When we win a state, suddenly the state doesn’t matter. You know Colorado — there was no red siren on Drudge when we won all 34 delegates in Colorado. That wasn’t news, because — I mean listen, that’s fine. If people want to get on the ‘Trump train,’ they can.”

Cruz did toss a bone to Drudge. He said that before the last month, the website “did a good job highlighting the excesses of liberalism."