sen. ted cruz<u+2019>s national spokesman rick tyler doubled-down on friday following accusations that the campaign photoshopped an image of florida sen. marco rubio and president obama.









<u+201c>every picture in a political campaign is photoshopped,<u+201d> tyler told fox news. <u+201c>it is absolutely true.<u+201d>









when pressed repeatedly by host martha mccallum about why the campaign photoshopped a picture of rubio and obama shaking hands in a picture on a website produced by the cruz campaign, tyler instead took aim at rubio<u+2019>s record.









<u+201c>marco rubio and barack obama have shaken hands. there are plenty of photos of him shaking hands,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>if they don<u+2019>t like the picture we picked, then send me a picture they like of marco rubio shaking hands with barack obama and we<u+2019>ll swap it out.<u+201d>









the website,<u+00a0>which features other digitally altered images of the florida senator, offers visitors the chance to take a <u+201c>stand against rubio,<u+201d> with a link to ted cruz<u+2019>s get-out-the-vote site.









"this is a disturbing pattern, they are making stuff<u+00a0>up every day," rubio told reporters thursday.









rubio senior advisor todd harris said the body shown in the image in question is "not rubio."









<u+201c>this person, we don<u+2019>t know who that is, but they photoshopped marco<u+2019>s face onto somebody else. this is how phony and how deceitful the cruz campaign has become.<u+201d>









the campaign says the original image, apparently reversed, was from a<u+00a0>stock photograph.
cruz camp responds to rubio photoshop flap, brushes off criticism
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