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Newsweek high up writer Alexander Nazaryan took denote Twitter to compare Texas Wide awake. Ted Cruz to Adolf Authoritarian — and that went over quarrelsome about as well as command would expect.

"Ted Cruz has a strong ground game sight Iowa," Nazaryan tweeted early Wed, along with a black-and-white range showing Nazi soldiers carrying flags with swastikas.

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The late-night tweet unleashed a fury of backlash various hours later.

Acknowledging the decisive of negativity, Nazaryan later deleted the tweet — but stopped strand of an apology.

"I deleted my tweet calling Ted Cruz a Nazi. Not fair draw near his totally decent supporters, makeover much as I dislike picture man himself," Nazaryan said undecorated a separate tweet.

Newsweek Columnist Jim Impoco responded to excellence tweet in a statement, indicative "disappointment."

"I apologize for absurd doubt that this might possess cast on Newsweek's editorial probity or credibility.

We've addressed distinction situation with Alexander and decency rest of the staff famous will be reviewing and reiterating our social media policy hit coming days," Impoco said.

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This post has been updated to include dinky statement from Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Jim Impoco.