Trump said Cruz “lied” during the debate about his standing in the polls. Marco Rubio at the Fox Republican debate on Tuesday, January 14.
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The sixth GOP debate welcomed seven Republican Party candidates to the main stage in Charleston, South Carolina on Thursday night, all sharing hopes and aspirations of taking on the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton towards becoming the 45th president of the United States.
“There are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York, but everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay”, Mr Cruz said. “I think it was right for Donald Trump to defend New York City, and to talk about the heroic actions of the people of this city after 9/11”.
King also criticized Cruz for opposing funding for relief after Superstorm Sandy and then pushing for relief from floods in Texas. Ted Cruz’s citizenship status? 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”.
Cruz, who tried to stay focused Friday on his appeals to conservatives as he campaigned in SC, brushed off Trump’s remarks about his Canadian birth. “We rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved NY and loved New Yorkers”. Cruz first attacked Trump for his “New York values” earlier this week.
NBC News reported that Trump’s margin over Cruz sharply increased since last month, when the same poll found five points separating the two candidates.
The New York Times ran an analysis of all of Trump’s speeches, interviews and press conferences, calling his speech patterns “ominous”.
The outlet tweeted a photo of Friday’s front page (check it out below), illustrating the vitriol Cruz was alluding to in many ways.
“I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”, Trump concluded.
It comes after frontrunner Donald Trump – a “birther” who famously challenged President Barack Obama to produce his Hawaiian birth certificate – has been hammering away at the hardline Texas senator’s eligibility.
But Cruz wasn’t saying there aren’t many Republicans in NY, per se.
Following the debate, some have noted that Cruz’s line of attack last night evokes memories of the anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant language of the past.
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“I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been abandoned for years by liberal politicians”.
