Mika Brzezinski Confronts Cruz Campaign Over ‘Dirty Tricks’: ‘Why Do That?’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski confronted a Ted Cruz spokesman the day after the candidate won the Republican Iowa caucus, asking for an explanation for some of the campaign’s “dirty tricks.”

Brzezinski asked Cruz spokesman Rick Taylor about “the mailers that really seem totally off-color in terms of how to win, and also putting it out there that Ben Carson had dropped out, with your top surrogate even tweeting it. Why do that?”

Taylor denied there was anything untoward about the controversial mailer, which warned voters they had committed a “voting violation” by not going out and caucusing for Ted Cruz, arguing that the Iowa Republican Party had used similar tactics before.

“The mailer, wasn’t it very deceptive?” Brzezinski pressed. “Wouldn’t you consider that dirty politics if that was done to your candidate?”

“I could show you lots of mailers that I would consider deceptive,” Taylor responded. “It was reminding people it was their obligation and duty to vote.”

Tyler also said it was “false” to say it was dirty to suggest Carson was dropping out. “We repeated what Ben Carson said in his own words. He said after Iowa he was going back to Florida for a couple of days then to D.C. for the prayer breakfast. That told us he was not going to New Hampshire. That was not a dirty trick.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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