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How damaging could his previous support for comprehensive immigration reform be for Marco Rubio?
The Florida senator released not one but two TV ads Friday defending his position -- and pushing back on Jeb Bush, whose allied super PAC has portrayed Rubio as an immigration flip-flopper.
"We all see what's happening: Jeb Bush is desperate and spending millions on false attacks," Rubio says in one of the ads. "Don't fall for it. When I'm president there will be no amnesty."
Both Rubio and his allied super PAC have appeared eager to counter the Bush camp's jabs, even though Bush is trailing Rubio in polls. Bush said in Thursday's debate that his rivals should be less concerned with what "wild and woolly" attack ads say.
"Everybody's record's going to be scrutinized, and at the end of the day, we need to be united behind the winner so we can defeat Hillary Clinton, because she is a disaster," he said.
Ted Cruz took Rubio to task on immigration Thursday, a few days after Rubio began talking on the campaign trail about how immigration is now a bigger national-security issue.
Rubio's campaign says both ads will air in Iowa.
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