Stephen King is really going after Ted Cruz on Twitter

"Remind your Republican friends what they already know."
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Stephen King is really going after Ted Cruz on Twitter
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Judging by Stephen King's Twitter feed, there's only one politician the horror master dislikes almost as much as Donald Trump, and that's Ted Cruz.

King has been tweeting about Cruz for years now, but over the past six months -- with the mid-terms approaching -- he's really been ramping things up.

Here are some recent examples.

That last tweet, posted back in June, prompted a response from Cruz himself, in which he described King as a "limousine liberal". The horror master responded with this:

Over the past week, with the Texas Senate race on the horizon, King has continued his onslaught.

King's latest barb was posted on Thursday night. At the time of writing it's already been shared over 4000 times.

Ouch.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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