Politics is only as ugly as you make it, and CNN knows how to make it ugly as sin.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas appeared Wednesday on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s primetime news program. The senator wanted to talk about his new book, One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History. Cuomo wanted to talk about President Trump, leer at Cruz’s Christian faith, talk about Trump, challenge Cruz’s credentials as a husband and father, and talk about Trump. Cuomo also spent much of the interview defending his objectively incompetent big brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.