“What Steve King said was stupid,” Cruz (R-Texas) told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“It was stupid. It was hurtful. It was wrong and he needs to stop it. … I think all of us ought to be united regardless of part in saying white supremacism, white nationalism is hatred. It is bigotry. It is evil. It is wrong, and I think we need that clarity. And I’m certainly going to urge everyone to provide that clarity.”