Corn on “Hardball”: Ted Cruz’s Fight to be the “Wackiest of the Wacko-Birds”

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Mother Jones DC bureau chief David Corn spoke with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and the Huffington Post‘s Howard Fineman this week about how Ted Cruz’s conservative posturing is part of a 2016 presidential bid. Watch here:

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