Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio struck markedly different tones at CNN's Republican presidential town hall Wednesday night, with Cruz prosecuting his case while Rubio made a more personal appeal.<br />Cruz said that he "laughed out loud" when he learned of the cease-and-desist letter Donald Trump's campaign sent his team for running an ad highlighting his opponent's former position on abortion rights.<br />Cruz, Trump's closest rival in the state, defended the ad in question, saying it largely uses Trump's "own words" to demonstrate the businessman's past stance in favor of abortion rights.<br />"It is quite literally the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard, that telling the voters what Donald Trump's actual record is is deceitful and lying," he told moderator Anderson Cooper.<br />Rubio, who preceded Cruz, spoke in poignant personal terms about race and growing up as a Cuban-American.
