Great, now you made him sad.
This is the exact sort of drama the Republican presidential race needs and deserves. A slap-fight between Republican candidate and religious radio zealot Mike Huckabee and Republican candidate slash America's worst senator Ted Cruz? Over who gets to give the radical anti-gay religious extremist county clerk the biggest hug and who has to settle for a slightly less-biggish one?
Bring it on.
"It was our event," Huckabee spokeswoman Alice Stewart said. "And Ted Cruz shows up, and you need to be asking him why he showed up at our event."
In fairness, giving big 'ol bear hugs to Talibanesque religious zealots is pretty much Mike Huckabee's only thing. He called it, Ted, and you're clearly butting in where you're not wanted. And so America is treated to the spectacle of Ted Cruz, who wishes to become leader of the free world so that he can put strongmen like Vlad Putin and those too-clever Iranians in their place, trying and failing to skirt his way around a lone Huckabee staffer.
A Cruz spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but his campaign had said Tuesday morning he did not plan to be "part of Huckabee's event." He nonetheless appeared interested in joining Davis and Huckabee for their news conference, according to video aired Wednesday night on MSNBC.
In the footage, Cruz exits the Carter County Detention Center, where Davis was being held, and heads toward the microphones where Huckabee was later broadcast alongside the clerk. However, Cruz quickly runs into a Huckabee staffer who points him in another direction, setting off a roughly 15-second back-and-forth followed by Cruz repeatedly trying to maneuver around the staffer. Cruz, appearing dumbfounded by the situation, ultimately follows the staffer offscreen.
It does seem like Ted Cruz tried to crash Huckabee's pre-planned Godgasm. But Mike Huckabee (well, his staffer) wouldn't have any of it, and the would-be-president was sent packing. Cruz did get his own picture with America's religious zealot of the moment, at least ... but it's just not the same without a press conference.