The man who ran Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzMurkowski: Supreme Court nominee should not be taken up before election Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates MORE's failed presidential campaign on Thursday blasted Chris Christie's criticism of the Texas senator, saying that the New Jersey governor "turned over his political testicles long ago.”

“That guy turned over his political testicles long ago, so I don’t take what he has to say with any meaning. You know, he embarrassed himself pretty quickly in this,” Jeff Roe said in a radio interview in Philadelphia first reported by BuzzFeed.

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Christie, who criticized Cruz for refusing to endorse Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE during his primetime speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, said that Cruz "richly deserved the reputation he developed" for not following through on his pledge to support the nominee.

"I think it was awful, and quite frankly I think it was selfish. And he signed the pledge, and its his job to keep his word, and Donald Trump gave him the opportunity to speak here at this convention tonight, and I think it was too cute, and I think that he saw by the end of the speech that the crowd was waiting for him to do the right thing and realized that once gain he wasn't going to do it" Christie said.

"I think the performance you saw up there is why Ted has so so richly deserved the reputation he developed on Capitol Hill," he added.

Roe also said that the Trump campaign knew that Cruz was not going to endorse him well before the speech.

Both Trump and Cruz had a number of personal exchanges during the Republican primaries that included attacks by the billionaire on the senator's wife and father.