The Times said the disclosure casts doubt on the Cruz narrative that he fueled his come-from-behind victory in the Texas Republican primary by liquidating his family’s savings.
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To make his point, Cruz has rehashed a Meet the Press interview from 1999 in which Donald Trump told then-moderator Tim Russert that as a New Yorker, on issues like gay marriage and abortion, his “views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa, perhaps”.
Asked about gay soldiers in the clip, Mr Trump says: “I mean, hey, I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, OK?”
But speaking to reporters at a church not far from Charlotte on Saturday, Cruz, who once declined to attack Trump, shed any caution he may have had about laying into his top rival.
A September 11 widower did not take kindly to a remark about ‘New York values’ that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made earlier this week.
“I imagine it pulled him out of bed this morning and send him tweeting and tweeting and tweeting”, he said.
Houston-based attorney Newton Schwartz filed a 28-page complaint Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Cruz, who was born in Alberta to an American mother and Cuban father, can legally become President. Cruz’s wife works for Goldman Sachs and secured a loan for as much as $500,000, secured by a brokerage account.
Trump, however, Saturday accused Cruz of purposely withholding information on the loans.
“The Ted Cruz wiseguy apology to the people of NY is a disgrace”.
Mr Cruz’s aides told Politico that they were planning fresh attacks. Cruz had given a backhanded apology not for his comments, but to New Yorkers who were harmed by liberal politicians.
Instead, Cruz blasted New York’s “liberal politicians”, specifically attacking Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. “So I understand that he is feeling defensive about my observation”. Ted Cruz on Saturday, prominent conservative writer and radio host Mark Levin publicly scolded the GOP front-runner, a notable rebuke from a wing of the Republican Party that Trump needs in order to capture the Iowa caucuses.
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Cruz’s campaign has said the failure to report the loan was a paperwork error.
