Cruz Fires Top Campaign Spokesman Over Rubio Bible Video

By Fox News. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Monday he’s fired campaign communications director Rick Tyler, after his top spokesman promoted a video that wrongly depicted Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as trash-talking the Bible.

The Texas senator announced that he’s asked for the resignation at a press conference Monday afternoon.

“We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate. Even if it was true, our campaign should not have sent it. That’s why I’ve asked for Rick Tyler’s resignation,” Cruz said in Nevada, ahead of the state’s GOP caucuses on Tuesday. “The standards of conduct in this campaign have been made absolutely clear.”

Tyler originally had linked to a story showing a video of Rubio walking by a Cruz staffer and Cruz’s father Rafael, who were reading the Bible in a hotel lobby. The original subtitles on the video showed Rubio saying to the staffer, “Got a good book there, not many answers in it.”

But after Tyler linked to the story, Rubio communications director Alex Conant tweeted out the same video with what he says are the correct subtitles — and they tell a very different story. (Read more from “Cruz Fires Top Campaign Spokesman Over Rubio Bible Video” HERE)

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Cruz Campaign Memo Trashes Rubio

By Ryan Lovelace. A memo from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s chief strategist trashes Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid.

Under the headline, “Ted Cruz is the only candidate who can defeat Trump,” Jason Johnson, Cruz’s chief strategist, made a case against Rubio.

“Marco Rubio cannot beat Trump,” Johnson wrote. “Trump can’t be beaten from the political Left, with a candidate who emphatically supports amnesty and who allows Trump to be considered the “conservative” in that context.”

Johnson argues that Rubio has failed to detail a successful strategy after the first three nominating states have cast their ballots. (Read more from “Cruz Campaign Memo Trashes Rubio” HERE)

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