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Begun, the Cruz-Rubio Immigration War has
The immigration fight between Ted Cruz and Marco
Rubio is fully on -- after Cruz blasted Rubio at Tuesday's debate for
his co-authorship of the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill, and
then after Rubio fired back on Wednesday. "[Cruz] clearly supported
legalization. I know he doesn't say that in Iowa, he takes it out of his
stump speech," Rubio told NBC's Hallie Jackson yesterday. "But I know
for a fact that he supported an amendment in the U.S. Senate when we
were debating the immigration bill where he flat out bragged about the
fact that he wasn't undoing the legalization." Cruz has responded that
the amendment Rubio is talking about was a "poison pill" amendment
intended to thwart the overall legislation. And Cruz gets a boost here
when you find out that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), maybe the most
hardline anti-immigration voice in the Senate, voted for the same
amendment that Cruz backed. Still, you have to credit Team Rubio for
muddying the waters on what could very well be his campaign's biggest
liability -- Gang of Eight. And Cruz's performance in that Fox News interview
was shaky at best. But ask yourself what conservative voters will care
about in the next six weeks: Rubio standing shoulder to shoulder with
Chuck Schumer, or Cruz voting with Jeff Sessions?
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