Texas Senator Ted Cruz is running scared.
The other week, he apologised to Dr. Ben Carson but refused Carson’s pleas that he discipline his staff for suggesting to Iowa caucus-goers that the neurosurgeon had dropped out of the running for president.
On Monday, Cruz fired communications director Rick Tyler for distributing a video with bad dubbing that suggested Marco Rubio was mocking the Bible. In fact, correct transcription showed the Florida senator and fellow Republican presidential hopeful praising the Good Book. The episode suggesting a candidacy in trouble.
In campaign speak, Cruz “underperformed” in the South Carolina primary Saturday. Though he lost out for second place by about 1,000 votes of three quarters of a million votes cast, he didn’t win a single county. This was the state where he was supposed to give billionaire Donald Trump a run for his money.
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