Sen. Ted Cruz derided former House Speaker John Boehner on Friday as “the ringleader of the Washington cartel,” following a series of insults that Boehner lobbed at Cruz.

“That didn’t take long,” Cruz wrote in a fundraising email sent Friday. “Less than 24 hours after I announced my intentions to continue fighting for our shared conservative values from the Senate, former Speaker of the House John Boehner was at it again.”

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