Did Ted Cruz Leak Classified Info During the GOP Debate?
The anger toward Mr. Rubio on the right has only grown in recent days as he has taken to aggressively questioning Senator Ted Cruz’s toughness on illegal immigration, a line of attack that some Republicans say they find disingenuous.
According to senator Ted Cruz’s declarations, standing by Trump was a way to not upset his supporters, as the businessman is now a front-runner for the Republican party.
Rubio largely retreated from the attempt to overhaul immigration policy after the package he helped to steer passed the Senate but stalled in the House.
Indeed, among the Republican Party’s two Hispanic presidential hopefuls, few issues offer a clearer contrast in tone, if not policy. And he suggested the wrong choice could hurt the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.
Rubio was citing a Cruz argument in 2013 that his amendment to an immigration-reform bill would make the overall package easier to pass. Cruz’s campaign recently claimed that the amendment was actually a “poison pill” to make the larger bill politically toxic. “It’s not an attack”.
Last month, Rubio also said he would end President Obama’s executive action protecting the so-called “DREAMers”, children who were brought to the country by their parents illegally. “Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists”.
During the debate, Cruz said he voted against the defense spending bill because he wanted it to remove the federal government’s authority to detain USA citizens without due process. “Marco Rubio authored and led the unsuccessful fight to pass the gang of 8 bill”. “But when 2013 came along, Senator Rubio and I made very different choices”, he said, arguing that Rubio made that push primarily to court elite Republican donors.
THE FACTS: That flies in the face of the Texas senator’s record and past rhetoric.
At almost the same time in Nevada, Cruz was defending his opposition to allowing undocumented immigrants from staying in the country legally.
The National Review said the evangelical leaders’ endorsement is a substantial boost for Cruz’s campaign. “He’s the one that, for example, supports doubling the number of green cards”.
“Cruz shouldn’t have said that”, Burr spokeswoman Becca Glover Watkins tweeted during the debate Tuesday night.
“Let’s have a moment of simple clarity: I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal immigrants”.
CRUZ: “I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization”. “Cruz of being anything other than an unapologetic conservative”, Budowich said. “Where there was a battle over amnesty, some chose, like Sen”.
“Donald is great at the one-liners, but he is a chaos candidate and he would be a chaos president”, Bush, 62, said.
Cruz has previously supported broadening legal immigration in some cases.
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. We can’t defeat ISIS. “We are being killed, we are being beaten by everybody”. More than 7 in 10 Democrats are in favor.