Cruz ad: Rubio used Obama talking points to sell ‘amnesty’

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An ad from Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign blasted Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for using President Obama’s language to market the Senate’s 2013 immigration reform legislation. Rubio co-authored the Senate’s bill, which failed under the scrutiny of Republicans in the House.

“Rubio got to Washington and wrote the bill giving amnesty to illegals using Obama’s talking points to make his sales pitch,” a narrator says in the ad. “Marco Rubio burned us once. He shouldn’t get the chance to sell us out again.”

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