In one of last night’s most memorable debate moments, Marco Rubio suggested that Ted Cruz didn’t know what the Florida senator was saying on Univision – because Ted Cruz didn’t speak Spanish.
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Rubio laughed and said, “I don’t know how he knows what I said on Univision, because he doesn’t speak Spanish”.
Carol Tobias, the president of the National Right to Life Committee, took Rubio’s side as well and in a statement called Cruz’s attack “inaccurate and misleading”. “In addition to that, Marco went on Univision in Spanish and said he would not rescind President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty on his first day in office”, Cruz said. “I mean, he goes around portraying himself as this purist, you know, ‘Ted Cruz the purist on immigration'”. ‘That’s how you want it?
Cruz, who harangued Rubio for sponsoring failed legislation that would have created a citizenship for millions of people in the United States illegally, accused the Florida senator of taking a more moderate approach when speaking to Spanish-language media in an attempt to appeal to Hispanic voters.
Asked about it again in November, this time in English, Rubio said, “It will have to end at some point”, and later, “DACA is going to end”. “I have promised to rescind very illegal executive action including that one”.
Scalia’s death may have been a welcome distraction for the Cruz campaign, which has come under fire from GOP presidential polling leader and real estate mogul Donald Trump, who threatened Friday to sue the Texas senator over his eligibility to become president based on Cruz’s birthplace of Canada.
Rubio’s campaign dismissed the characterization of Rubio’s vote, and spokesman Alex Conant told Politico, “Ted Cruz is willing to do or say anything to get elected – now he’s just making things up”. I do want to help those young people who are here undocumented and I’m strongly working to attain this.
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Nevertheless, Rubio, as he has in past debates, then used strikingly strong language to denounce Cruz, calling him a liar. “He’s lying about all sorts of things. But to argue he’s a pursuit on immigration is just not true”.
