He has dismissed attacks on his eligibility and pointed out during a Republican candidates’ debate on Thursday that 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain and 1968 Republican candidate George Romney also were born outside the United States but still were considered eligible to be president.
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Republican Rep. Peter King said he can’t see himself “working or doing anything for Ted Cruz”, after the Texas senator’s disparaging comments about “New York values” while criticizing Donald Trump in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate.
“Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bill de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo have all demanded an apology, and I’m happy to apologize”, Cruz told reporters Friday while in SC.
Houston attorney Newton Schwartz filed the suit in a federal court on Thursday to determine if Cruz is a “natural born citizen” of America.
So what would the other candidates rather have: an overwhelming Cruz win in Iowa or a close finish between Cruz and Trump? Prompting moderator Neil Cavuto to ask why he waited until now to make that an issue.
Trump also dismissed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a recurring target during the brash billionaire’s campaign, as having “no chance”.
“I was disappointed by your disparaging remarks about NY values somehow being different from Iowa and New Hampshire values”, Smith wrote.
And that was when Trump unloaded. What Ted Cruz meant as an insult to his opponent has backfired on him, as the whole city is up in arms about the negative connotation Ted Cruz has lent to the term “New York values”. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air. “And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”.
I have a feeling that’s the last time Ted Cruz ridicules NY values.
Asked to explain his dig at the Trump campaign on Fox News, the candidate said, “The rest of the country knows exactly what NY values are”. And in a reference to the Texas senator’s birthplace, the tabloid added: “You don’t like New York values?”. Bush said. “What we need to do is destroy ISIS”.
With the Iowa Caucuses only a little more than two weeks away, the business mogul says he will be in the state more than ever. “But I promise you that in SC, they do”.
I apologize to all the small businesses that have been driven out of New York City by crushing taxes and regulations. NY media and lawmakers and even Democratic front-runner Clinton fired back at Cruz on Friday and slammed him for his comments.
Mr. Cruz has not yet publicly responded to the “New York values” controversy.
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Cuccinelli: Social liberalism, and a pushy version of it, and I think that’s sort of an expectation in the political arena, that’s what we understand.
