Rubio: Cruz Continues to ‘Portray Himself as the Only Conservative in the Race’

‘Ted has been very calculated’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: 
DICKERSON: "Let me ask you about the question of immigration, there was a sharp set of exchanges between you and senator Cruz during the debate you said of Ted cruise it is built on a lie he is more conservative than the other candidates. But on the key piece of legislation on immigration, isn’t the voter who cares about immigration, don’t they just need to know you voted for it and he voted against it?"
RUBIO: "Well, Ted act like some purist and that’s not a fact, Ted helped designed George W. Bush’s immigration platform, when he was working on his campaign, and there are memos that show that, and then as a senator, on CBS, and the national broadcast, Ted said there had to be a compromise about the people who are here illegally, something he now calls am necessary, amnesty but that’s what he was for, in the Senate he talked about wanting to pass immigration reform and bringing people out of the shadows, et cetera so he is not what he portrays himself to be. The bottom line is that this is an issue that does need to be confronted and does need to be fixed. It cannot continue the way it is. And it will not happen comprehensively there is no way to pass a comprehensive bill, that has been tried, I saw it and it doesn’t work, the only way forward is to do this by beginning with border enforcement and conflict of the American people that immigration is under control but I think the lie is that Ted continues to try to portray himself as the only conservative in the race and Rand Paul made the same point, and on this issue and others, Ted has been very calculated, taking one position at one place and a different position somewhere else and voters see through that and in time it will catch up with him and already started, to I believe."
DICKERSON: "So your point of view is not about brace, about something big you are making a character attack here?"
RUBIO: "Well, it is not a character attack, it is his record, I mean, he used to support — doubling the number of green cards and now he is against it, he used to support a 500 percent increase in guest worker Visas and now he is against that. He used to be in favor of birthright citizenship and now he is against it. I mean on issue, he goes talking tough on China but leaves out the fact he defended a Chinese company that stole inventions from an American, a floridian, a constituent of mine and he was a defense counsel for the Chinese company. So just on issue after issue you see incredible calculation, he goes to New York and raises millions of dollars and then goes to the rest of the country and attacks New York values. These are the things that overtime people start to realize that those are real calculation here politically and just catches up with you."
DICKERSON: "All right. Senator Rubio, we are going to have to end there it, thank you so much for being with us."
RUBIO: "Thank you. Thank you for having me."

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