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“The playing field is very fluid”, he said, adding that Florida Senator Marco Rubio continued to deliver strong performances.
Rubio won his seat in 2010 with support from the budding Tea Party movement. As the thinkers and elites of the GOP pile on Ted Cruz, more and more conservatives rally to Cruz.
“There’s nothing that Senator Cruz said last night that wasn’t widely reported and saturated in the public domain”, Cruz’s spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told NBC News.
Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar over national security for weeks.
“The effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be still be eligible for RPI (Registered Provisional Immigrant) status”, Cruz said during a May 2013 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The Republican presidential hopefuls held their fifth round of debates on Tuesday night, just as this poll was being wrapped up.
“And up until the debate, he had never said what he said”.
Cruz is defending against attacks from Marco Rubio on immigration and military cuts.
Asked directly, Cruz had every opportunity to state that he didn’t intend for his amendment to be adopted or for the Gang of Eight bill to pass at all and in fact replied the opposite. “I don’t think there’s any question that both Rubio and Cruz have been for a form of amnesty”. Cruz has since backed off that position, and in the debate, he fought back. You supported the Rubio-Schumer-Obama amnesty bill and I tried to kill it. But Trump spoils that dichotomy. I will tell you this: I serve on the Judiciary Committee with Ted Cruz.
Cruz and Rubio have essentially doubled their support in the poll in the past two months, from 5 percent and 6 percent, respectively.
What he didn’t say is that the government now must get a court order to access them, which defenders say does not represent a serious hurdle. They agree on almost everything.
Later, in Minnesota on Thursday, Cruz said that Rubio had broken the vow he had made to the voters who elected him in 2010. “I believe that is the compromise that can pass”. If your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what it’s like to be on the floor of the United States Senate. “I’m not going to be spouting off and scaring people”, Bush said on Fox News. Many analysts think the Republican primary race could turn into a contest between the two men, with Cruz representing the more conservative factions of the party and Rubio the “party establishment”. Heller said Republicans need to increase their share of the Latino vote from what it was in the last several elections.
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump (L) responds to criticism from former Governor Jeb Bush (R) as Senator Ted Cruz (C) looks on during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada December 15, 2015.
