Marco Rubio Backlash Prompts Newt Gingrich Campaign to Pull Spanish-Language Ad Calling Mitt Romney
Jan 25, 2012 10:52pm
Marco Rubio Backlash Prompts Newt Gingrich Campaign to Pull Spanish-Language Ad Calling Mitt Romney ‘Anti-Immigrant’
MIAMI – Don’t mess with Sen. Marco Rubio, especially not in Florida.
The young Cuban-American Republican senator’s criticism of a Spanish-language ad released by Newt Gingrich that hit rival Mitt Romney for being “anti-immigrant” has caused the former House speaker’s campaign to pull the spot.
With the Florida primary fast approaching next Tuesday, Gingrich and Romney spent Wednesday feuding in an attempt to win over Latino voters at a Univision forum in Miami. Romney blasted Gingrich for the “anti-immigrant” line in the ad, saying it was “very sad” and “unbecoming of a presidential candidate.”
But it was not Romney’s rebuke of the ad, rather Rubio’s, that prompted the campaign’s decision to scrap the spot.
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