U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz never misses a chance to take a shot at his No. 1 rival Republican rival, Donald Trump.
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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.
Trump grabbed onto two new reports in order to question Cruz’s character while simultaneously embracing his favorite issue against the senator: Canada.
In sparring onstage last night with Trump over the issue, Cruz argued that because his mother is American, he became a US citizen at birth.
Cruz says the attacks Trump has launched concerning his status as a “natural born citizen” have come about only becasue Trump has lost some of his lead in the recent polls.
But lawyer Cruz swiftly retorted that under Trump’s own logic, he wasn’t eligible either – because his mother Mary MacLeod came from the isle of Lewis.
It appears we continue to have scenes like in Thursday night’s sixth GOP debate on Fox Business Channel where Cruz is put on the defensive by front-runner Donald Trump over the senator’s status – again and again.
There’s one thing Ted Cruz still values about New Yorkers: Their checkbooks.
“I’m sure Ted Cruz was very negative about New York money”, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan, calling on Cruz to apologize to all New Yorkers. “The man offended gays, he was offensive to women, he offended 18 million New Yorkers, he offended one of the largest congressional delegations by the way in the country and you can’t govern that way and it’s not who we are”.
September 11 widower James Smith knows something about NY values.
“Everybody in the world watched and everyone in the world loved NY and loved New Yorkers”, Trump said.
Cruz has used the phrase “New York values” in his attempt to draw a loaded distinction between him and Trump.
“You had people like Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz, and other Republicans saying Obama was born in Kenya”, Schwartz said.
Trump said Cruz “lied” during the debate about his standing in the polls.
“Now, I hope that was the apology they were looking for”, Cruz said to laughter and applause.
“I apologize to all the small businesses that are fleeing New York City because of the crushing taxes and regulations that are making it impossible to survive”. It has allowed the Cruz campaign to resurface Trump’s old liberal positions in a way that doesn’t seem stale and like something the media has covered before.
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If nothing else, last week makes it clear that Texan Cruz is now considered a strong and well-organized frontrunner for his party’s nomination. Or, more specifically, whether people think he is irredeemably a New Yorker.
