Ted Cruz confuses Washington state with Western Australia in attack on Covid 'kill-joys'

The US Republican mistook a Facebook post by the Australian state on New Year's Eve party restrictions for an edict by the Democrat-run state US senator Ted Cruz has been ridiculed for posting a tweet in which he mixed up the American state of Washington with Western Australia while criticising Covid restrictions. The Republican politician - who tried to win the party's presidential nomination in 2016 - retweeted a post by the government of Western Australia, whose handle is WA Government - that...