“Everybody in the world watched and everyone in the world loved NY and loved New Yorkers”, Trump said. I mean, I was so proud of NY, the World Trade Center, these two massive, 110 story buildings come down, thousands of people killed. Below they add, “Hey, Cruz: You don’t like New York values?”.
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Trump then talked about how the whole country rallied behind NY after the 9/11 attacks. If Cruz had the guts to say that, he could have said it and declined to insult New Yorkers generally.
As Trump stated, Buckley did indeed call Manhattan home, and hosted many of his Republican acolytes there. In April, Cruz held a fundraiser at the apartment of a gay businessman in NY, where Cruz took a reportedly moderate stance on LGBTQ issues while accepting their money. The rap on Cruz, after all, is that his appeal is too narrow to win a general election.
“I hope that day never comes”, he said, after attacking Cruz as a person who oversimplifies, exaggerates and has “basically led the Republican party over the cliff in the fall of 2013”.
The presidential candidates sparred over Cruz’s comment on Thursday night’s debate stage. It’s not just that Cruz walked into a trap knowing what is coming but that Trump acted in a way that is quite uncharacteristic. “Go back to Canada!”
“I’m sure now he won’t take a donation from anyone in NY, obviously”, Cuomo said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
The city’s other tabloid, the New York Post, also confronted Cruz on his “New York values” dig.
That’s Trump’s whole shtick distilled to a few sentences – as a wheeler-dealer in New York City, he’s scrapped with every financial, political, and media tough guy there is and he’s beaten them all.
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It was a reference to Trump telling Iowans that not many evangelicals come out of Cuba, where Cruz’s father is from.
