Ted Cruz keeps dodging on whether he agrees with his former podcast co-host's call to eradicate 'transgenderism'

• Conservative personality Michael Knowles called for the eradication of "transgenderism" in a CPAC speech.
• Knowles previously co-hosted a podcast with Ted Cruz for nearly two years.
• Cruz repeatedly refused to say whether he agrees with that idea, calling it "silly politics."

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas repeatedly refused to say whether he agrees with his former podcast co-host that "transgenderism" must be "eradicated."

"I think the extreme left's ideology has been very harmful," Cruz initially told Insider on Tuesday before boarding an elevator in the Capitol building.