When Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign, regular panelist Donny Deutsch, a former CNBC host, denounced him for not accepting liberal orthodoxy on climate change. From the March 23 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
“Everybody keeps saying he’s a smart guy. This is a guy who basically is saying that climate change is not a fact...So wait, that’s not smart. That’s dumb. But that’s ignorance. That word is ignorant and that’s not smart...I think he’s the worst. I think he’s scary, I think he’s dangerous, I think he’s slimy and I think he brings no fresh new ideas.”