--- title: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Fight Turns Personal description: Bad blood is building between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in South Carolina, as the two freshmen senators spar for second place in the Palmetto... canonical: https://time.com/4227499/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-south-carolina-campaign/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-17T17:36:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:59.237Z article:section: Politics og:title: Cruz and Rubio Fight Turns Personal in South Carolina og:description: "Rubio's campaign has been reduced to spreading false Internet rumors." og:url: https://time.com/4227499/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-south-carolina-campaign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d0f55a70e0b3e14/69887e0b8e06010718464a53/ted-cruz-marco-rubio.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidates (R-L) Sen. 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This video captures Marco Rubio at almost 1000 frames per second._ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Feb 17, 2016 5:36 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidates (R-L) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) participate in the Fox News - Google GOP Debate January 28, 2016 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican presidential candidates (R-L) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) participate in the Fox News - Google GOP Debate January 28, 2016 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Feb 17, 2016 5:36 PM UTC Bad blood is building between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in South Carolina, as the two freshmen senators spar for second place in the Palmetto State. The latest flashpoint was a fake Facebook page claiming that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy had withdrawn his endorsement of Marco Rubio to back Ted Cruz. There was no evidence that the Cruz campaign was behind the posting, but that didn’t stop Rubio from laying the blame on his Senate colleague and the type of campaign he is running. “It’s part of a pattern,” Rubio said. “They didn’t say they were supporting Donald Trump. They didn’t say they were supporting Ben Carson. So it’s just a pattern of people around his campaign that have continuously done things like that.” Asked again for evidence, he only replied that it was part of a pattern. Cruz’s campaign once again denied responsibility for the posting Tuesday. A Cruz campaign official said they were asked Facebook to delete the fake page. “We read about it, asked Facebook to take it down and it was down in less than five minutes,” the official said. On Tuesday Gowdy to released a statement blaming Cruz for the Facebook page, but also recorded a robo-call to 500,000 South Carolinians laying the blame on Cruz for negative push-polling allegedly conducted by the Cruz campaign. Cruz’s campaign has argued that Rubio has misconstrued his record to South Carolina voters, accusing him of still supporting “amnesty” and skipping votes on defense spending and defunding Planned Parenthood. “Rubio’s campaign has been reduced to spreading false Internet rumors,” said Cruz spokesman Brian Phillips. “It’s a sad development. But I suppose they’d rather lie about fake Facebook pages than own up to his support for amnesty, missing the fight on Planned Parenthood funding, and surrendering to the courts on marriage.” ## Transcript [ APPLAUSE ] That all men were created equal endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights. And chief among them were the rights to life, and to liberty, and to pursue happiness. What happened over the next 200 and some odd years after that is nothing short of a miracle. On this nation, a collection of immigrants and the descendants of slaves Of go- getters from all over this planet and people who are already here. 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