Rubio’s forces fought back against the picture, which was in an ad, “Rubio-Obama Trade Pact”, highlighting the Florida senator’s support for giving the president fast-track trade approval.
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It appears the Cruz campaign may have done just that.
The website, therealrubiorecord.com, attacks Rubio as Obama’s “Republican clone”.
“Two days before the most important primary in the 2016 election, Marco Rubio can’t talk about his record so instead he wants to talk about fake Facebook pages and photos they don’t like”.
“Cruz and his allies to spread false information and outright lies in the hopes of winning votes by appealing to our lowest common denominator”, the congressman said in a statement.
The Rubio campaign gave reporters a print-out of this image from the new Cruz website on his record.
Rubio senior adviser Todd Harris said that even the tie and watch Rubio sported in the allegedly doctored photo are not owned by him.
“There is a culture of dishonesty, from top to bottom, in the Cruz for President campaign”, Harris told reporters in a CrossFit gym in Greenville. “It is reflected in what Ted Cruz himself says”.
The accusations by the Marco Rubio campaign of foul play by the Ted Cruz campaign continued today as the latter released a photoshopped image of an ebullient Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama.
Rubio supporter Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. also weighed in, without saying Cruz’s name, but taking him to task for a fake Facebook post of Gowdy withdrawing his endorsement of Rubio. Cruz and his campaign have adamantly denied that they were behind the page. “Todd can send me the photo he likes of Senator Rubio shaking hands with President Obama and I will swap it out”.
“My fellow South Carolinians do not mind tough politics, but it has to be fair”.
On the issue of the photoshopped photo of Rubio in the Cruz campaign’s latest website, Tyler contended that “every image” of Cruz put out by Rubio’s campaign is photoshopped as well.
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The South Carolina Republican primary will take place on Saturday.
