Rush Limbaugh Stands Up for Cruz Over Rubio on Immigration

During the main debate that followed among the top GOP presidential hopefuls, front-runner Donald Trump pledged he would remain loyal to the party and not run as an independent, WND reported. Marco Rubio of Florida.

Baier again pushed back and pointed to other interviews where Cruz said he didn’t want to kill the overall bill and specifically that the Cruz amendment wasn’t meant to be a poison pill.

During Tuesday night’s debate, they clashed on immigration reform.

“Tuesday’s GOP debate was Jeb Bush’s last stand, and he failed”, declared a post-debate opinion piece in The Washington Post.

“When it comes to Sen”. “Every online poll has me way ahead”. I don’t think so.

But Cruz and Rubio have been very willing to engage in a cage match with each other.

Senate Intelligence Committee leaders said Wednesday they aren’t investigating whether Texas Sen.

Rubio said he strongly opposes the bill “because it keeps spending money that we don’t have, grows our debt and concedes far too many of President Obama’s and liberal Democrats’ big government spending priorities”.

But on Fox News on Wednesday, a visibly flustered Cruz stumbled after being played his own words from 2013. He obviously mentioned that at the time because that’s what he wanted.

Instead, most of the fireworks during the Las Vegas event occurred between the trio of first-term senators – Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar over national security for weeks. Carson’s standing has slipped in national polls recently, as Sens. Bush, eager to energize his sagging campaign, brought the fight to Trump on the debate stage, repeatedly talking over the billionaire as the pair tangled.

During the debate, Rubio appeared to raise concerns that Cruz’s remarks were classified.

Cruz introduced a spate of amendments to that bill – including one to strip out the path to citizenship and replace it with a measure that would allow those immigrants to gain legal status but never earn certain rights, like voting.

Senator Cruz said at one point as the two sparred, “What he knows is that the old program covered 20 to 30 per cent of phone numbers to search for terrorists”.