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Ted Cruz ‘Affair’ Rumors Peddled by Marco Rubio’s Allies
Daily Beast ^ | 03/25/2016 | Besty Woodruff

Posted on 03/25/2016 2:04:29 PM PDT by SteveSCH

The truth behind the rumor-mongering, however, is a little more complex. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruz’s opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months now—and that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved in spreading the smears.

For months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications, according to Republican operatives and media figures. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC News—reporters at all those outlets heard some version of the Cruz-is-cheating story. None of them decided to run with rumors. Those publications’ representatives all declined to provide on-the-record comments when The Daily Beast reached out for this article.

Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubio—but not associated with his official campaign—showed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.

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To: lonestar67
Conservative Christian evangelicals are not allowed to run for the presidency

Michelle Bachman found that out last time.
121 posted on 03/25/2016 3:45:13 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

Teddy, Teddy, Teddy. Headshake.


122 posted on 03/25/2016 3:47:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: trisham
Unfortunately, men with power do attract some women. It’s not unusual.

Guaranteed, if Trump was a plumber instead of a billionaire, the best he could do is a 300 lb wife named Rosie.
123 posted on 03/25/2016 3:48:51 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Fur burgers, allegedly.


124 posted on 03/25/2016 3:49:08 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: georgiegirl
I understand that— but with Cruz the “power” does not seem to come across in any attractive way. (especially when you see him swallowing a white thing on his lip at a debate, it’s more repulsive than attractive)

Yeah, those little slivers of wintergreen lifesavers are just nasty. You see what you want to see. And it's not the truth.
125 posted on 03/25/2016 3:50:59 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: georgiarat

Trump and NE BOSS are best buddies


126 posted on 03/25/2016 3:51:04 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: SteveSCH

How are any of the issues swirling around Cruz and Trump even remotely as serious as Hillary Clinton’s outright treason?
Why won’t they attack her?


127 posted on 03/25/2016 3:52:09 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: TexasGator
Trump and NE BOSS are best buddies

If so, it means exactly jack sh!t.

128 posted on 03/25/2016 3:53:15 PM PDT by sargon (Go, Trump, Go!)
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To: Starstruck

The snide nasty terms they use has taught me to reply in kind to Tedomites.


129 posted on 03/25/2016 3:57:58 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: austinaero

I understand your post in relation to Ted but remember most evangelical Christians voted for Trump. It was the Mormons voted for Ted.


130 posted on 03/25/2016 4:00:35 PM PDT by protest1
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To: Old Yeller

You don’t know women.


131 posted on 03/25/2016 4:02:09 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MrEdd
The snide nasty terms they use has taught me to reply in kind to Tedomites.

And you don't know what nasty is until you've been attacked by the orange slime.

132 posted on 03/25/2016 4:07:03 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: PrairieLady2

Trump did get 10,000 more utah votes than Hillary.


133 posted on 03/25/2016 4:10:20 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: ameribbean expat

Or better:

THE CUBAN MISTRESS CRISIS


134 posted on 03/25/2016 4:11:56 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Trump’s pals including Pecker and Roger Stone are the ones who decided to go public when Cruz got within 3% nationally in the polls and fell behind in WI.

He has used this same SOP for years, whether Megyn Kelly, Rosie O’Donnell, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Rubio, the list goes on.

First he went birther on Cruz now he has to go back to the gutter to distract from his polling numbers and his inability to debate issues 1 on 1. He probably realized after being embarrassed by the WaPo that he needed to so something so this is it.


135 posted on 03/25/2016 4:17:33 PM PDT by Leto
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To: TexasGator

Are they friends, yes. Is this a planted story, probably not. Has this been rumored in the background for months. Yes.

Is it true, I hope not. Is Cruz demagouge the issue as he does everything? Yes.


136 posted on 03/25/2016 4:23:23 PM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!)
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To: manc

He also said “Donald Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him.” Really. I think Cruz may be losing it.


137 posted on 03/25/2016 4:23:43 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: txhurl

I don’t know what Cruz did or did not do. I do know that he has made some very bizarre statements today.


138 posted on 03/25/2016 4:25:51 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: PrairieLady2
Before the Florida Primary there were numerous stories from many sources on both Rubio and Cruz (I am not vouching credibility to the following):
A) Rubio allegedly visited a dominatrix. I glanced at the article and closed the screen.
B) An article published on an allegedly sexual liaison with Cruz.

So this story on Cruz from the Inquirer is old news.So Cruz is grandstanding on Trump. I think Rubio and Cruz were attacking each other in Florida.

139 posted on 03/25/2016 4:43:37 PM PDT by MaggieMay (A blank tag is a terrible thing to waste)
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140 posted on 03/25/2016 4:46:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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