Ted Cruz boasts of his ‘Candy Crush’ skills

by Judy Kurtz - 05/28/15 3:20 PM ET

Sen. Ted Cruz is boasting about crushing it in “Candy Crush.”

The Texas Republican and 2016 presidential candidate wrote Thursday that an article on The Daily Beast detailing his lifelong love of video games contained “one factual error” — he’s actually way better at the game “Candy Crush” than he was given credit for.

The Daily Beast has outed me as an addict, a life-long video game player (much to my daughters’ delight, and my wife’s…

Posted by Ted Cruz on Thursday, May 28, 2015

{mosads}Cruz, 44, tells The Daily Beast that video games mean more time with his young daughters: “One of the fun things that I do with Caroline and Catherine is we get on the iPhone or the iPad and play games. Drives my wife crazy. She doesn’t like it, but both girls like to curl up and play games.”

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