More than two hours of prime-time argument Thursday presented voters with a sharp contrast to the optimistic vision of America that President Barack Obama painted in his State of the Union address earlier this week. When it was hit in a way that no American city had ever been hit, it came together and rose up together in a moment as thrilling as any America had ever seen.
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At the GOP debate Thursday night, Donald Trump’s response to Cruz’s clichéd vision of “New York values” was an appeal to emotionalism about 9/11. “It was inappropriate and I hit him very hard”, Trump said Friday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program. “If this all works out I’m happy to consider naming you as VP and so if you happen to be right, you could get the top job at end of the day”, Cruz retorted. Cruz largely shares Trump’s positions on foreign policy and immigration.
Ted Cruz wants to set Iowa values and NY values in opposition, but both are at their core American values.
After bashing the media and Hillary Clinton, he admitted: “I made a paperwork error”. Cruz called it “a paperwork error” that he reported the loan properly in one disclosure form but not another.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also chimed in on Twitter.
Things started off when Fox Business, no doubt aware that ratings are threatened by the fact that Republican debates are coming around more frequently than pizza night in some houses, went ahead and asked Ted Cruz about this stupid, Trump-inspired debate over whether a born citizen is a natural born citizen.
When Ted Cruz sneered at what he called Donald Trump’s “New York values”, some New Yorkers took it very personally.
“I stood on the stage and watched Marco … rather indignantly, look at Governor Bush and say, ‘someone told you that because we’re running for the same office, that criticizing me will get you to that office, ‘” he said. Rubio noted several issues on which Cruz had changed his views or his stance, including the availability of green cards and legal status for immigrants in the country illegally, Trade Promotion Authority for President Obama, military spending levels and even the status of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Rubio jabbed: “That is not consistent conservatism”. “That is political calculation”. Rubio went after Christie. Indeed, if the nominee is Clinton, many Republicans will also surely come to detect new virtues in Trump. Sh said: “It’s getting into bizarro territory here now”.
“All Muslims? Seriously? What kind of signal does that send to the rest of the world?”
A RealClearPolitics daily average national poll on January 15 showed Trump had 34.5 percent of the vote, Cruz 19.3 percent, Rubio 11.8 percent, Carson 9.0 percent, Bush 4.8 percent, while 3.5 percent favored Christie.
“He appointed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, someone who has been a radical against the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms”, Cruz said. “I don’t”, Bartiromo said.
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