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Ted Cruz talks to moderator Megyn Kelly after one of Fox News Channel's debates. | AP Photo Ted Cruz is still blaming Fox News

It’s been more than two months since Sen. Ted Cruz pulled out of the presidential race. But he’s still bitter at Fox News.

In an interview with radio host Glenn Beck on Friday morning, Cruz responded to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who questioned why Cruz was meeting with Donald Trump and had agreed to speak at the GOP convention when he had previously excoriated the presumptive Republican nominee.

"I didn’t watch what she said and If I got dismayed every time somebody on Fox News attacked me, you know what, life is too short to worry about, that is an institution that can express its own corporate opinions, and it has done so at great volume during the course of the primaries. And I’m not going to worry about their attacks. Our country is in an extremely challenging position right now, and there are a lot of people who played an active role in putting us in this position,” Cruz said.

On Kelly’s show on Thursday night, Kelly questioned why Cruz met with Trump and is agreeing to speak at the convention. "Ted Cruz, who the last day of the primary came out and just annihilated Trump, saying, 'I'm going to tell you what I really think of him’, and then, you know, just spewed the most hateful, vile things he could think of. And now we're supposed to listen to him speak at the convention like he's some credible witness for Trump's presidency?” Kelly said.

“Hmm. I wonder how the women of America are going to react to Ted Cruz getting up there and saying, you know, good things about the man who insulted Ted Cruz's own wife and her appearance,” Kelly added later.

Cruz told Beck that he did not discuss an endorsement with Trump, agreeing only to speak at the convention.

“Our country’s facing enormous challenges, and I do not believe it is the responsible choice for conservatives to shy away from defending the principles we believe in, from talking about who America is and how we go forward to get on a better path, and that’s what I intend to do at the convention,” Cruz said. "If it is the case that Megyn or anyone else decides that’s a reason to attack me, because I’m willing to literally speak to Republicans at our national convention, then that is a curious position.”

It’s far from the first time Cruz has lashed out at Fox News. In May, as his campaign was coming to an end, Cruz alleged that Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and owner Rupert Murdoch were boosting Trump.

"There is a broader dynamic at work, which is network executives have made a decision to get behind Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network," Cruz told reporters at a news conference.

A Fox News spokesperson pointed to previous statements issued when Cruz has complained about Fox, stating simply, "Sen. Cruz is wrong." Fox host Greta Van Susteren previously wrote in May that Cruz regularly declined interview and town hall requests.

Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.