“When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than NY”, he said to applause from the crowd in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Well, the jerk store called, and they’ve got a fresh batch of presidential candidates.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that Ted Cruz owes the people of New York an apology for attacking their values. Trump shot back with a defense of NY that was legitimately moving, in a moment that threw progressive viewers into a fit of panic that Trump was actually starting to make some sense.
King also criticized Cruz for opposing funding for relief after Superstorm Sandy and then pushing for relief from floods in Texas.
If the most staunch, Washington-wary activists in Texas didn’t have any problem with his connections to the New York-based Goldman Sachs banking firm, conservative Republican voters probably won’t have much of a problem now. He believes Cruz “needs to apologize to New Yorkers and to Americans in general”.
Rep. Dan Donovan, another New York Republican whose district includes Staten Island and Brooklyn, also hit Cruz by pointing to September 11 and Hurricane Sandy.
During one of several dust-ups with fellow GOP candidate (and native New Yorker) Donald Trump, Cruz launched into a speech slamming the values held by those in NY. Trump responded movingly by citing the city’s response to 9/11. Ted Cruz, by name during a town hall-style meeting in Johnston, Iowa, the first of four scheduled campaign appearances Saturday. The debate was one of two final opportunities for the candidates to lay out their visions for the country ahead of the February 1 caucuses in Iowa. CNN’s Chris Cuomo hinted at it strongly Friday morning, and others have quizzed Cruz and his surrogates on the subtext, who have stuck to the “liberal social views” line. If this all works out, I’m happy to consider naming you as VP.
Trump seized on a report in The New York Times that said Cruz had failed to disclose a second loan, from Citibank, that helped bankroll his 2012 Senate campaign.
I don’t think a lot of minds were changed by last night’s GOP presidential debate.
So, among much else that could be said, I think Marco Rubio had an excellent night.
In a clear play for votes in conservative Iowa, Cruz rounded on Trump, accusing him of having “New York values” – pro-abortion, pro-gay rights and pro media.
“Coming to NY and basically begging for money from the same so-called rich people that he attacks”, King continued.
After being named and scorned during the debate on Thursday, Tribe said again in an interview on “Anderson Cooper 360” later in the evening that the issue represented “a serious cloud” hanging over the senator’s candidacy.
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Trump, for his part, backed off from his criticisms of Cruz that he had broadcast loudly all day on Saturday.
