New Yorkers are weighing in on Ted Cruz’s “New York values” remark at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate with their typical city bite.
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Ted Cruz as well since the Texas Republican criticized him for having “New York values” during the GOP debate in SC.
In the last Republican debate, Trump offered a passionate defense of New York City in response to Cruz’s claim that he represents “New York values” out of step with conservatives.
“I’m glad everyone is talking about Rafael Eduardo Cruz”, Trump said.
A Real Clear Politics average of recent opinion polls shows Trump running marginally ahead of Cruz in Iowa but holding a bigger lead in New Hampshire, where Florida Sen.
Cruz’s camp has been circulating a 1999 interview where Trump explained the reason he’s open to abortion, gay marriage and partial-birth abortion he’s a New Yorker.
On the morning after Thursday night’s debate, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, denounced the candidate and demanded an apology for comments he called “obnoxious on every level”. “I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been let down by liberal politicians in that state”, he told reporters at a campaign rally in SC. “I’m not going to be taking legal advice from Donald Trump”, Cruz fired back.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll the two candidates are virtually tied in Iowa, with Trump at 31% and Cruz 29%. “New York is a great place, it’s got great people, it’s got loving people, wonderful people”, he said.
Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio says that anger alone isn’t enough to qualify someone to be president.
Trump is now working hard to paint Cruz as a flip flopper who will say anything to get elected, as he tries to maintain his front-runner status. “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”.
Cruz also defended his failure to disclose loans of some $1 million from Wall Street banks on federal election forms during his 2012 Senate campaign, saying it was little more than a “paperwork error”.
The Iowa Caucus is less than three weeks away.
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He also added: “We rebuilt downtown Manhattan and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved NY and loved New Yorkers. He has a 4 or 5 percent chance”, Trump said. “On the policy issues, he used to be in favor of legalizing people that are here illegally, and he said so in front of one audience, but then he puts off – portrays this sort of notion that he’s the harshest and hardest when it comes to that issue, that’s not been his record”.
