Harry Reid slams Rubio: At least Cruz 'has a set of values'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has more respect for Ted Cruz than for Marco Rubio.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) may be widely detested by his congressional colleagues, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (R-Nev.) says he'd still far prefer him to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Reid says that while he may disagree with the Texas senator, at least Cruz stands for something — as opposed to Rubio who "doesn't stand for anything," Reid says in an interview on Sirius XM's "The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt" set to air Thursday.

"I don’t like a lot of the things that he stands for, in fact, most everything he stands for," Reid says, according to a preview clip of the interview. "But I have some degree of respect for him because he believes in something. He has a set of values." Even in the case of the 17-day government shutdown, Reid says that "at least [Cruz] set out doing what he said he would do."

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