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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2125546" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-affair-rumors-peddled-by-marco-rubio-s-allies.html" target="_blank">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-affair-rumors-peddled-by-marco-rubio-s-allies.html</a></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, 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.</p><p>Breitbart News, the notoriously <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/03/09/breitbart-rolls-over-after-reporter-grabbed-by-trump-aide.html" target="_blank">Trump-friendly</a> conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication.</p><p>“We got it from a Rubio ally,” said the source. “It was too thin, so [Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matt Boyle] decided not to run it. There was no way to verify the claims.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2125546, member: 12952"] [URL]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-affair-rumors-peddled-by-marco-rubio-s-allies.html[/URL] 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. [I]The New York Times[/I], [I]The Washington Post[/I], 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 [URL='http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/03/09/breitbart-rolls-over-after-reporter-grabbed-by-trump-aide.html']Trump-friendly[/URL] conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. “We got it from a Rubio ally,” said the source. “It was too thin, so [Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matt Boyle] decided not to run it. There was no way to verify the claims.” [/QUOTE]
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