“If you’re supporting amnesty, you’re supporting Common Core”, Cruz intoned at the Faith Assembly of God, an Orlando megachurch where he spoke for 53 minutes.
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The event has attracted virtually the entire GOP presidential field because the Florida Republican Party all but made attendance a condition – along with a payment of $25,000 – for qualifying for the state’s March 15 primary. Democrats have spent months boasting about the substantive tone of their contest, attempting to set up a favorable early contrast with the “carnival barker” insults of the crowded Republican primary.
Cruz told Baier: “Over two years ago, following the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., the Democrats came out with a massive raft of new gun control proposals”.
In the last GOP presidential debate, Bush criticized Trump’s call for mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally, calling it an impractical plan that would benefit Democrats with Hispanic voters. Though he boasted the plan was “detailed”, it didn’t say what Cruz would do with the millions of people already in the country illegally. The report grades the candidates across six categories-growth, opportunity, civil society, limited government, favoritism and national security-and Cruz was tops in almost every category.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is vowing to suspend a program that gives work visas to highly skilled immigrants, reversing his position on the program as part of an aggressive immigration plan created to appeal to the GOP’s most conservative wing. He said he changed his position after learning that a few companies, including nearby Disney World, might be abusing the program.
Cruz accused Rubio of being the “point of the spear” for the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators who tried to come up with a comprehensive immigration policy in 2013 and failed.
“You never know what these people are thinking when they say these things to reporters”, Rubio said.
“Ted is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally”, he said.
Ted’s position on immigration is not much different than mine. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio about who’s tougher on illegal immigration.
The Cruz campaign has, in fact, started to attack Rubio for sponsoring the Gang of Eight amnesty/path to citizenship legislation of 2013.
“I laughed out loud at that”, Cruz said Friday on the Mike Gallagher radio show. “That’s like Obama saying my position is the same as his on Obamacare”.
Rubio shot back on Friday.
“That label won’t stick”, predicted former state Sen.
Cruz is trying to draw that distinction because he has nothing else to use against Rubio, according to Diaz de la Portilla: “What’s sticking out between the two?”
They are far more anxious about GOP candidates who have experience in office, with Marco Rubio cited most often as the strongest potential competition for their overwhelming choice for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton. “I think it’s becoming more likely by the day”.
“They are the folks who now have put in the time to do the hard scrutiny – to say, all right, who’s telling the truth and who’s just on the campaign trail saying whatever is popular at the moment?”
Joe Rugola, a labor union leader in OH, said Trump and Carson might be written off in a normal political year, but “I don’t think there’s anything normal about politics in America right now”.
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Rubio said “every single person” on the Republican debate stage where the issue was debated among eight candidates in Milwaukee on Tuesday “has supported the legalization of people who are not here legally”. Rubio, who’s by no means averse to policy specifics, is running an aspirational and narrative-driven race, not terribly dissimilar to Barack Obama’s (successful) 2008 campaign. This amendment would allow that happen, but what it would do is remove the pathway to citizenship so that there are real consequences that respect the rule of law and that treat legal immigrants with the fairness and respect they deserve.
