“Ted Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa,” Nazaryan tweeted early Wednesday, along with a black-and-white picture showing Nazi soldiers carrying flags with swastikas. 
Image source: Twitter
Image source: Twitter
The late-night tweet unleashed a fury of backlash several hours later. 
Acknowledging the avalanche of negativity, Nazaryan later deleted the tweet — but stopped short of an apology.
“I deleted my tweet calling Ted Cruz a Nazi. Not fair to his totally decent supporters, as much as I dislike the man himself,” Nazaryan said in a separate tweet. 
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