Ted Cruz urges Trump to face off with Harris despite her ‘stupid rules’

“Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, as candidate Donald Trump infamously dubbed the Texas senator, is pushing for the 2024 White House hopeful to debate Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris “whatever stupid rules they want.”

Cruz, a conservative Republican whose Cuban-born father Trump wrongfully accused of being involved in the JFK assassination, rejected Fox News host Sean Hannity’s entreaty on Monday night for the twice-impeached former president-turned-NFT-trading-card-salesman to not “give in” to the Harris campaign’s proposed groundrules for the face-off scheduled to air September 10 on ABC News.

Trump has been sending mixed signals about debating Harris, who seems to have thrown the former president for a loop ever since Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid in favor of his younger, more robust VP. On Sunday, Trump posted to his Twitter clone, Truth Social, “I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?”

Trump said recently at an appearance in Virginia, “I’d much rather do it on NBC. I’d much rather do it on CBS. Frankly, I think CBS is very unfair, but the best of the group, and certainly I do it on Fox, I’d even do it on CNN. I thought CNN treated us very fairly the last time.”

Finally, on Tuesday, Trump blasted out a post on Truth Social insisting the debate is most definitely on — though he bemoaned that “it will be Broadcast Live on ABC FAKE NEWS, by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business.”

“The Rules will be the same as the last CNN Debate, which seemed to work out well for