Cruz Rips Rubio Over Attack Ad on National Security
LAMONI, Iowa — Ted Cruz and his campaign are offering their harshest and most extensive criticism yet of Marco Rubio since the U.S. Senate colleagues began clashing over immigration and national security issues.
Speaking with reporters before a town hall here, Texas' junior senator repeatedly pushed back on a TV ad airing in Iowa that suggests Cruz "voted to weaken America's ability to identify and hunt down terrorists." The spot was produced by an outside group whose head supports Rubio, the Florida senator vying with Cruz for the GOP presidential nomination.
"I think Sen. Rubio’s campaign is very, very dismayed that conservatives {are} coming together behind our campaign and is attempting to mislead the voters in an effort to slow that down,” Cruz said. "I don’t believe that’s going to be successful.”
Cruz's remarks came hours after his campaign released a video featuring one of his supporters in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, criticizing Rubio for his involvement in the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill two years ago. That legislation, Bridenstine said, "would have expanded the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program and given Obama authority to admit even more Syrian refugees." Cruz echoed that criticism Saturday, saying it has become "abundantly clear" following the recent Paris terrorist attacks that the proposal was "significantly harmful to our national security."
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