Rubio challenges Cruz on immigration

Cruz then responded in Spanish, taunting Rubio.

“Marco went on Univision in Spanish and said he would not rescind”, Obama’s proposed immigration policies, Cruz said during the second half of the debate. When you say something that’s not true, it’s called a lie.

‘So he either wasn’t telling the truth then or he wasn’t telling the truth now, but to argue that he is a purist on immigration is just not so, ‘ the Florida senator added.

Saturday night’s Republican debate, the most contentious GOP debate of the year so far, got even more heated when Marco Rubio accused Ted Cruz of not speaking Spanish, with Cruz taking to Español to settle it. Cruz then started speaking Spanish on the stage to confront Rubio’s claim.

“First of all, I don’t know how he knows what I said on Univision because he doesn’t speak Spanish”, Rubio shot back, noting that his fellow Cuban-American senator lacks fluency in their ancestral tongue.

Rubio also said he had reached out to former primary rival Chris Christie, who dropped out of the campaign last week, and said he has “no animus toward Chris” despite their repeated run-ins on the campaign trail.

So when Rubio said Cruz “doesn’t speak Spanish”, he is likely trying to say, I’m the real Latino candidate, vote for me. He lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. He lies about Planned Parenthood and marriage. Last night Donald Trump says he’s issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him.

Cruz: [Interrupts in Spanish] That’s how you want it?

“I happen to think that the best arguments on the merits support Cruz’s eligibility, but even apart from that, I just don’t see courts intervening on this sort of thing”, Jonathan Adler, a constitutional law professor at Case Western Reserve University, told Time.

During the interview, Rubio also said he supports Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s position that the chamber won’t consider a nomination President Barack Obama submits to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was died Saturday.

“There is a difference between Senator Rubio and me”.

Among the contenders, only Jeb Bush said Obama had “every right” to nominate a justice during his final year in office.