In South Carolina, the Texas Senator questioned Trump’s conservative credentials on the issues of abortion and gay marriage while the business mogul attacked Cruz over his undisclosed loans and comments demeaning “New York values”.
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Rep. Steve King, a conservative Iowa Republican who supports Cruz, suggested on CNN that Cruz’s remark had backfired, saying, “It would have been better on the part of Ted Cruz not to have had that exchange”.
Ted Cruz is under scrutiny for not properly disclosing a loan he took for his 2012 Senate bid.
In South Carolina, Cruz doubled down, linking Trump to Democratic politicians.
Previously Mr Cruz seemed to have formed a tacit alliance with Mr Trump – but their perceived “bromance” soured when Mr Trump questioned whether Mr Cruz could run for president because he was born in Canada.
Cruz has avoided any onstage attacks of Trump’s record since Thursday’s debate, when the two went after one another, instead unleashing his barbs for press gaggles after his events.
Trump said Democrats would sue if Cruz were on the Republican ticket, putting their party’s chances of winning at risk.
Like Trump, many people mentioned the city’s resiliency after September 11.
“You know, I think most people know exactly what NY values are”, the candidate said. “New York is a great place, it’s got great people, it’s got loving people, wonderful people”, he said.
Mr Trump said the comments were “very insulting” and brought up the city’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Evangelical voters, who are heavily represented in Iowa’s Republican electorate, were even more predisposed toward Cruz’s values: 95 percent found them attractive. But many scholars say that simply being born in America does not make you an American citizen; that is the argument used to legalize anchor babies. He said donors in NY should not give to Cruz.
“And I imagine it pulled him out of bed this morning and sent him tweeting and tweeting and tweeting”.
“Anybody who was AWOL from the battle on the Gang of Eight has no standing as a candidate now to say they will enforce the border”, Cruz said of the comprehensive immigration bill pushed by Rubio in 2013.
“I apologise to the hardworking men and women in the state of NY who have been denied jobs because Governor Cuomo won’t allow fracking”.
“The entire nation can not afford such constitutional confusion and uncertainties overhanging the electorate process”, Schwartz, who lives and practices law in Cruz’s home state, wrote in the 73-page lawsuit.
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The whole political-media world has gone bananas since Ted Cruz accused Donald Trump of having “New York Values”, then spent Friday glibly mock-apologizing for the charge.
