Other than his tricks in Iowa regarding Carson that we all know about, Cruz came apart in South Carolina. It started with photoshopping Rubio and Obama shaking hands, a petty move magnified by the premise that Cruz has said he is running on honesty and integrity (a joke in itself). Here is an article on it.
Rubio fires back at Cruz campaign.
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The website, therealrubiorecord.com, includes a manipulated photo juxtaposing Obama and Rubio’s faces, listing policy areas where Rubio was in supposed agreement with the president, and calling him the “Republican Obama.” “After more than seven years of the destructive policies of President Obama, we shouldn’t replace him with his Republican clone,” the website states.
The website includes an area for visitors to input their contact information to “stand against Rubio.”
“There is so little honesty left in the Cruz campaign that they’re actually willing to Photoshop a fellow Republican’s face onto the body of some other person to completely invent an attack on Marco Rubio,” Harris added.
The website criticizes Rubio for standing with Obama on trade promotion authority—a position Cruz himself once held. “The only difference between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz on TPA is that a month after voting for TPA, Marco continued to support it, Ted Cruz completely flip-flopped on it,” Harris contended.
Shortly after Harris spoke to the press, Rubio’s wife, Jeannette, sent a copy of the original stock image, which had found via image search and features a white man and black man shaking hands, to Rubio advisor Todd Harris. “They reversed it,” she wrote.
“Of course Marco Rubio is throwing a fit because he’s ashamed of his liberal record of standing with Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama to try to pass amnesty,” said Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler. “And let’s not let Rubio’s dirty campaign tactics get a free pass here—Rubio is having his supporters crash opponent events and tape literature inside women’s bathroom stalls, and his campaign is running intentionally misleading statewide robocalls. Again, Rubio will do anything to distract away from his liberal record.”
I bolded Rick Tyler's name, because he is responsible for the 2nd and more damaging dirty trick that came from the Cruz campaign.
Cruz spokesman apologizes for fake Bible video
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Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) national spokesman Rick Tyler apologized Monday online and in television appearances for spreading a video that purported to show rival candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), dismissing the Bible.
The video, with somewhat garbled audio, was recorded by the University of Pennsylvania's independent student news organization The Daily Pennsylvanian in Columbia, South Carolina, and published on Saturday afternoon. The video shows Rubio walking past Ted Cruz's father and a Cruz staffer in a hotel lobby. Rubio stops briefly to to talk to the staffer, who is holding the Bible, and the video's captions reported that Rubio said there were "not many answers" in the Bible.
Tyler then shared that version of the video Sunday on Facebook.
In response, Rubio communications director Alex Conant tweeted the video with a "correct transcript" on Sunday afternoon, calling it "another dirty trick by Cruz camp." This version of the video again shows Rubio gesturing at the Bible, but saying, "All the answers are in there."
Of course that apology didn't save his job and the damage has been done.
Cruz fires campaign spokesman