Republican rivals Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky showed up to vote against the legislation, while Sen. “Yahoo dug up these quotes, saying if this amendment were to pass, the chance of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically, a few weeks later during a debate on the senate floor Cruz repeated his belief that this amendment is the compromise that can pass, and repeated later in Princeton that if my amendment were adopted, this bill would pass”.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or { New York New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
On climate change, Cruz is a full-fledged denier. Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a candidate for the Democratic nomination, also voted against the bill. And I think the excitement comes from authenticity. But it is clear that Rubio supports an eventual path to legal status for those here illegally, which is the only logical position; Cruz went further than previously in renouncing any such (decent) intentions.
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“If it is the case that the federal government is seizing millions of personal records about law-abiding citizens”, Cruz said in June 2013, “and if it is the case that there are minimal restrictions on accessing or reviewing those records, then I think Mr. Snowden has done a considerable public service by bringing it to light”.
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The fading Marco Rubio campaign is foundering on the one-term, soon-to-be-has-been Florida legislator’s leading role in the Gang of Eight immigration fiasco. Asked if he was OK with the deaths of civilians in the war on terror, Carson said, “you got it”. “I don’t know why they think they would benefit from that, but I’m happy to talk about immigration all day long because my guy’s solid on immigration, and their guy has a fatal flaw if you’re running for the Republican nomination”.
Baier: That’s not what you said at the time.
What has not been fully appreciated is that Cruz, like Rubio, has been wrong-footed by the steady trend toward intolerance of immigrants that has gripped the activist base of the GOP, arguably going back to 2007, when conservative backlash thwarted the efforts of George W. Bush and John McCain to work with Ted Kennedy and other Democrats on a comprehensive reform bill.
Hillary herself may even help out by making a couple of high-profile speeches in which she praises Rubio for his “moderation” and “bipartisanship” – especially, she might say, “on the subject of immigration”.
After a lot of the fighting between Cruz, Rubio and Paul, both Christie and Fiorina took the opportunity to show how they are above the in-fighting in Congress and that you don’t have the opportunity to quibble over bill wording when you are the executive in the midst of a crisis; immediate action is required.
“I am not my brother’s keeper”, Cruz added with a smirk. “So I’m doing better”.
The Cruz campaign released an ad in Iowa Thursday that touts the senator’s fight against the “Gang of Eight” bill.
While Cruz has defended that course on multiple occasions in the Senate and in interviews, on Thursday he said he was simply calling his opponents’ bluff.
So a vote for Rubio is a vote for adaptation and ambition – for a conservatism that seeks to reassure the anxious middle on domestic policy and shore up the Pax Americana overseas.
Indeed, the very nature of the Cruz-Rubio clash on immigration plays right into Trump’s hands.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson came in fourth with nine percent support, sinking nine points from before. Cruz’s self-assured extremism tells whole classes of voters – independents, minorities, women – to look elsewhere.
“I introduced an amendment that made anyone here illegally permanently ineligible for citizenship”.
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“Cruz said when he launched his campaign in March at Liberty University, the New York Times “‘promptly opined Cruz can not win because the Washington elites despise him.’ I kind of thought that was the whole point of the campaign”. Even Jeb Bush eagerly exchanged a low-five with the mogul during one of the early debates. “Or at least did until the other night, at the debate”. “What don’t you understand, Greta?” The more they conspire to take out Cruz based on his alleged lack of purity – focusing on the specks in Cruz’s eye while ignoring the logs in some of their candidates’ eyes – the more they are going to empower Cruz. Ted Cruz and Sen. He picked up an endorsement from influential Iowa conservative Bob Vander Plaats on December 10 and another from Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia, on Friday. A vote for Trump is a vote for rupture – for a conservatism defined more by identity politics than ideology, more by nationalism than libertarianism, more by caudillism than the Constitution.
