Texas Senator Ted Cruz asked his communications director Rick Tyler to step down on Monday after Tyler posted – then deleted – false information regarding fellow Republican nominee Marco Rubio on Twitter.
Tyler, the former spokesperson for Newt Gingrich, posted a tweet falsely accusing Rubio of dismissing the Bible.
“It turned out the news story he sent around was false but I’ll tell you, even if it was true, we are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate,” Cruz said to CNN Monday night.
Tyler apologized to Rubio via Facebook post on Monday.
“I want to apologize to Senator Marco Rubio for posting an inaccurate story about him earlier today,” Tyler wrote. “I’ve deleted the post because I would not knowingly post a false story. But the fact remains that I did post it when I should have checked its accuracy first. I regret the mistake.”
ONE CHILD LEFT BEHIND
Another Republican candidate has dropped out of the presidential race, narrowing the GOP field to five presidential candidates.
After Donald Trump bought out his website’s domain, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended his campaign on Saturday; ending the possibility of a third President Bush in office.
“The people of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken and I really respect their decision, so tonight I am suspending my campaign,” Bush said in his concession speech on Saturday.
With Bush out of the race, NBC News has predicted that more of his supporters will now back Rubio than any other Republican candidate, tightening the race between the Senator and Trump. If the prediction is correct, Rubio will knock Cruz into third.
TRUMP AND CLINTON TAKE CAUCUS
Donald Trump took home a win from Nevada on Monday, with Rubio falling in second place. This is Trump’s third primary win, after already taking New Hampshire and South Carolina.
“This is an amazing night,” Trump said in his victory speech on Tuesday. “We won the evangelicals. We won with the young. We won with the old. We won with the highly educated. We won with the poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
Hillary Clinton also walked away from the Silver State with a win from the state’s Democratic voters, capitalizing on her overall lead against Bernie Sanders.
“We look at our country and see that so much isn’t working,” Clinton said in her victory speech. “Americans are right to be angry, but we’re also hungry for real solutions.”
SUPER TUESDAY IN THE HEADLIGHTS
The tradition of “Super Tuesday” continues as more than a dozen states will host their primaries on Tuesday.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming will open their polls on the largest polling day of the primary season.
This year’s particular Super Tuesday has also been dubbed the “SEC Primary,” since many of the states represented have schools in the NCAA Southeastern Conference.
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