CNN
By Eric Bradner
February 14, 2016
Marco
Rubio says Ted Cruz is a liar -- accusing the Texas senator of false
attacks over same-sex marriage, Planned Parenthood, immigration,
campaign tactics and more.
"There's
no other way to describe that -- it's a lie. When you say something
that's not true, it's called a lie. That's the definition of it," Rubio
said Sunday in an
interview with CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
"On
this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying
it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true," Rubio said.
Rubio
unloaded on Cruz just days ahead of South Carolina's Republican
primary, a key battle that could winnow the field of six GOP
presidential contenders.
His
verbal assault came the morning after the two had one of the most
memorable exchanges of Saturday night's debate hosted by CBS, when Cruz
attacked comments Rubio had
made on Univision in Spanish about immigration.
Rubio
shot back that Cruz doesn't even speak Spanish -- and Cruz responded in
Spanish, challenging Rubio to continue their exchange in the language.
Asked
if Rubio was calling Cruz's Latino status into question, Rubio
responded: "No, I was calling into question whether he even knows what
I'm saying ... He has no idea.
He's just going off what other people are telling him, and it's false.
It's just not true."
He
invoked a long list of what he called Cruz's false characterizations of
his record -- as well as Cruz's campaign's tactics portraying rival Ben
Carson as dropping out
of the race as Iowa's caucus-goers were still voting.
"The
bottom line is, there's been this disturbing pattern the last couple of
weeks of Ted Cruz saying things that are not true. Just in the last
week, he's lied about
my record on marriage. He's lied about my record on Planned Parenthood.
Of course he lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. Last night Donald Trump
says he's issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him. And then he
also isn't telling the truth about immigration,"
Rubio said.
The Florida senator also accused Cruz of misrepresenting himself on immigration.
"I
mean, he goes around portraying himself as this purist -- you know, Ted
Cruz, the purist on immigration. But I was there two, three years ago,
when he was passionately
arguing at the committee that we needed to pass immigration reform and
needed to bring people out of the shadows," Rubio said.
He
added: "I think this pattern of saying things that aren't true has
become very disturbing when it comes to Ted Cruz's campaign."
During
the interview, Rubio also said he supports Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell's position that the chamber won't consider a nomination
President Barack Obama
submits to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was died
Saturday.
"I don't think the Senate's going to move on it, and I agree with that decision," Rubio said.
He
said it's been 80 years since a Supreme Court choice was nominated and
confirmed in the year of a presidential election. Justice Anthony
Kennedy was confirmed on February
3, 1988, but that was after the nomination of Robert Bork was rejected.
"There's
a reason for that, and the reason is that the next president should
have a chance to fill that void, and not someone who's never going to
answer to the electorate
again," Rubio said.
He added: "Let's let the voters weigh in in November, and then we'll have an appointment."
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