Not long after Sen. Ted Cruz asked now-former communications director Rick Tyler for his resignation, Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign responded, saying the spokesman had an “unenviable task” of working for the Texas senator.
In a statement, Rubio spokesman Alex Conant argued that Tyler had an impossible job of working for Cruz, a candidate “willing to do or say anything” to win the GOP nomination.
“Rick is a really good spokesman who had the unenviable task of working for a candidate willing to do or say anything to get elected,” said Conant, who serves as the campaign’s communications director. “There is a culture in the Cruz campaign, from top to bottom, that no lie is too big and no trick too dirty. Rick did the right thing by apologizing to Marco. It’s high time for Ted Cruz to do the right thing and stop the lies.”
Cruz told reporters Monday afternoon that he asked for Tyler’s resignation after the communications hand tweeted out and posted on Facebook an article that questioned Rubio’s Christianity.
The move also comes hours after Rubio publicly wondered if anyone was going to be “held accountable” for pushing out the falsified story.
