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Rep. Peter King is no fan of Sen. Ted Cruz. | AP Photo Rep. Peter King: Cruz gives Lucifer a bad name

Peter King really hates Ted Cruz, so much so that he suggested John Boehner gave the devil a bad name by comparing him to the Texas senator.

In an interview with CNN, the New York Republican congressman told Wolf Blitzer he agreed with the former House speaker, who called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” on Wednesday night.

“Maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz,” King said. “Listen, what John Boehner was most concerned about was Ted Cruz perpetrated a fraud and a hoax when he brought about the shutdown of the government on some kind of a vague promise that he was gonna be able to take Obamacare out of the budget or to end Obamacare.”

King argued that Cruz knew his strategy would never work, but he did it anyway. He “shut down the government, cost the government money” and “served no purpose whatsoever other than to boost his name identification.”

Ahead of New York's primary earlier this month, King, who voted for John Kasich to send a message to Donald Trump, said he hates Cruz and would take cyanide if he ever won the GOP nomination.

Trump often ridicules Cruz on the trail for his lack of support among his congressional colleagues, proudly boasting that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed his campaign over Cruz, who often cited him in his stump speeches.

While a handful of former Republican presidential candidates have supported his candidacy in an effort to stop Trump from being the party’s standard-bearer, members of Congress have been slow to voice their support for the senator, even if they’ve voted for him in the Republican primary.

Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, for example, have voted for Cruz, but they haven’t formally endorsed him, like Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mike Lee of Utah and Cory Gardner of Colorado.

