In the South Carolina Republican debate, Ted Cruz said of fellow Republican senator Marco Rubio, “Marco went on Univision in Spanish and said he would not rescind President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty on his first day in office.” Rubio replied, “I don’t know how he knows what I said on Univision because he doesn’t speak Spanish.” As Cruz responded in what Fox News Latino called “broken and halting Spanish, but Spanish nonetheless,” Rubio quickly added, “Look, this is a disturbing pattern now, because for a number of weeks now, Ted Cruz has just been telling lies….He’s lying about all sorts of things. And now he makes things up.”
Yet when Rubio appeared on Univision last year, his remarks were translated by that network as follows:
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