Cruz, locked in a now daily, heated fight with his GOP rival, needled Rubio for missing a high-profile vote that morning on the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Cruz proposed that the difference between Cruz and Rubio is that when Rubio was elected and sent to Washington, the Florida senator chose to help create a path to citizenship, and Cruz did not. Cruz is scheduled to hold another event Sunday in Alabama, a rally in Birmingham, then head on to Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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“I’m going to let Marco defend his own voting record. He’s a friend of mine, he’s charming, he’s an incredible communicator”, Cruz told reporters during a campaign event in Georgia.
Cruz on Friday questioned Rubio missing the vote earlier that day on the $1.1 trillion government spending bill – which Rubio said he opposed.
Cruz campaign aides also piled on Rubio on Twitter, mocking him for missing a Senate vote to campaign. Two months ago he gets his news from the shows.
But Cruz was unable to totally turn the conversation back to Rubio and away from himself.
Rubio’s campaign has zeroed in on an amendment proposed by Cruz that would have stripped a path to citizenship out of the legislation while leaving in place a path to legal status. “Read it as many times as you’d like”.
The endorsement of Cuccinelli, the former attorney general in Virginia and a GOP candidate for governor, was not unexpected – his top political aide at SCF, Matt Hoskins, has already been working for Cruz behind the scenes.
Senator Marco Rubio made a big bet on an immigration overhaul that failed – and he has been running away from it since.
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“That doesn’t mean that he would give them a path to legalization, he would not”, Tyler said.
