Ted Cruz asks campaign spokesman to resign

“If other candidates choose to go into the gutter, we will not do the same”. Only one in six voters selected this quality as the most important, but more than three-quarters of them supported Mr. Trump. Cruz’s campaign has been hit with a number of accusations that it’s misleading voters, and Rubio told reporters, “It’s every single day, something comes out of the Cruz campaign that’s deceptive and untrue”.

In a note placed atop the story, the student paper’s editor said that the publication has been receiving many questions about the video, as some have disagreed with its transcript.

“I understand that Marco’s campaign team believes it’s politically advantageous to try to distract the topic from his own record”, Cruz said.

Ted Cruz just shot his messenger, announcing he asked for the resignation of his spokesman Rick Tyler – the guy who represented his campaign on TV news programs – after an inaccurate Tyler re-tweet fueled more “dirty tricks” charges against the GOP candidate. “I had made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity”, Cruz told reporters, according to The Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick. “I don’t think Rick is with the campaign anymore”, Uithoven reportedly told him.

Leading Republican candidate Donald Trump was quick to jump on the latest controversy to attack “crazy” Mr Cruz and calling for him to be “disqualified”. Ted Cruz said he has asked his communications director to resign after spreading a false story on social media about Sen. Marco Rubio had disparaged the Bible, further inflaming the open warfare between the campaigns, with Rubio saying the episode reflected a pattern of dishonesty by Cruz. The reported Cruz staffer in the video is not Tyler. Marco Rubio on Monday and fired his communications director over a story that implied Rubio held disdain for the Bible.

In the video, Rubio confidently strolls into a hotel lobby past Rafael Cruz – the father of rival Sen. “But the fact remains that I did post it when I should have checked its accuracy first”, he wrote. “I regret the mistake”.

The apology and firing come amid intense criticism of Mr Cruz’s campaign as dishonest from both Mr Rubio and Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination. The charges seem to have resonated with evangelicals in SC, where Cruz delivered a disappointing third-place finish despite the state’s conservative reputation and favorable demographics. Cruz apologized to fellow White House hopeful Ben Carson after blasting out a report during the Iowa caucuses that suggested the retired neurosurgeon was suspending his campaign.