Cruz prosecutes, Rubio gets personal at CNN town hall
- 8 years ago
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio struck markedly different tones at CNN's Republican presidential town hall Wednesday night, with Cruz prosecuting his case while Rubio made a more personal appeal.
Cruz said that he "laughed out loud" when he learned of the cease-and-desist letter Donald Trump's campaign sent his team for running an ad highlighting his opponent's former position on abortion rights.
Cruz, Trump's closest rival in the state, defended the ad in question, saying it largely uses Trump's "own words" to demonstrate the businessman's past stance in favor of abortion rights.
"It is quite literally the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard, that telling the voters what Donald Trump's actual record is is deceitful and lying," he told moderator Anderson Cooper.
Rubio, who preceded Cruz, spoke in poignant personal terms about race and growing up as a Cuban-American.
Cruz said that he "laughed out loud" when he learned of the cease-and-desist letter Donald Trump's campaign sent his team for running an ad highlighting his opponent's former position on abortion rights.
Cruz, Trump's closest rival in the state, defended the ad in question, saying it largely uses Trump's "own words" to demonstrate the businessman's past stance in favor of abortion rights.
"It is quite literally the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard, that telling the voters what Donald Trump's actual record is is deceitful and lying," he told moderator Anderson Cooper.
Rubio, who preceded Cruz, spoke in poignant personal terms about race and growing up as a Cuban-American.