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Despite his firing, Rick Tyler maintained that he has kept up his relationships with people on the Cruz campaign. | AP Photo Fired Cruz aide: Rubio tweet got 'twisted'

Rick Tyler did not realize how much his sharing a video that misquoted Marco Rubio would get "twisted" and "blown up," the former top communications aide to Ted Cruz said Friday, four days after the Texas senator asked for his resignation.

Appearing in his new role as an MSNBC contributor on "MTP Daily," Tyler sat down with Chuck Todd who asked him whether he was fired solely because of his social media post or because of an accumulation of "too much baggage." Tyler had shared a story misquoting Rubio telling a Cruz staffer that the Bible he was reading didn't "have many answers in it." In fact, Rubio said, "All the answers are in there."

“No, he was disappointed, and it was a bad call in judgment. And look, I believe Marco Rubio is a Bible-believing Christian. I had no doubt about that when I tweeted it," Tyler said. "Part of my judgment is I didn’t realize how twisted up and blown up, and it was. But it shouldn’t have been done. I shouldn’t have done it, and I regretted doing it. And I went on national television and told Sen. Rubio sorry about it.”

Despite his firing, Tyler maintained that he has kept up his relationships with people on the Cruz campaign.

“In fact, the whole team to a person went out that night to sort of wish me farewell and goodbye, including Jeff Roe, the campaign manager," Tyler recounted. "And Jeff made everybody tell a funny Rick Tyler story, so it was a little like being at your own funeral.”

Asked to analyze his former boss' chances to make it a two-man race between himself and Donald Trump, Tyler talked up Cruz's need to win his home state of Texas. If Rubio does not win his home state on March 15, Tyler predicted that the Florida senator's "campaign would begin to unravel a little bit."