Texas Democratic party Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke got booed tonight when he dismissed the “thoughts and prayers” that were offered after the school shooting in Santa Fe earlier this year.

What triggered the boos was this line by Beto: “thoughts and prayers Senator Cruz are just not going to cut it anymore.”

Then Ted Cruz let him have it:

“I’m sorry that you don’t like thoughts and prayers. I will pray for anyone in harm’s way! But I’ll also do something about it…”

This caused the debate crowd to cheer!

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Then at the end of the debate Cruz let him have it again:

At the end of their debate, O’Rourke and Cruz each expressed admiration for the sacrifice the other was making. Cruz managed to say that “just like Bernie Sanders” believes in socialism, O’Rourke passionately believes in what he believes in. Cute. — Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) September 21, 2018

Take that!

Watch Beto and Cruz debate on gun control: