Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has a Wiener drawback.
The conservative lawmaker appeared to confuse California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) with disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) in an insult that rapidly backfired on Wednesday.
“Wait, I assumed this man was thrown out of Congress for sending bare footage of himself?” Cruz tweeted, maybe jokingly, in response to criticism from the California lawmaker.
Wiener fired again with a blunt reminder of their time collectively at Harvard Legislation College within the Nineties:
Wiener has dished out reminders of Cruz’s law-school previous earlier than, together with in 2022 after Cruz’s aggressive line of questioning through the affirmation hearings for Supreme Courtroom Affiliate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“Ketanji Brown Jackson was in my legislation faculty class,” Wiener tweeted on the time. “Everybody thought she was a pleasant & sensible particular person. Ted Cruz was a 12 months forward of us in legislation faculty. Everybody thought he was a significant jackass, as he’s demonstrating but once more immediately.”
The most recent spat between Wiener and Cruz was additionally over judicial hearings.
Wiener referred to as Cruz out for “straight up Islamophobia” for his opposition to Adeel Mangi, a judicial nominee who can be the first-ever Muslim appeals court docket decide if confirmed.
That affirmation, nonetheless, is doubtful as he has been the goal of a smear marketing campaign.
