‘People of NY may well resolve the marriage question differently than the people of Florida or Texas or Ohio.
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For Trump, Levin’s criticism was a rebuke from a wing of the Republican Party he needs in order to capture the Iowa caucuses, while Cruz’s comments represent his harshest attacks against a rival he once promised to “smother with love”. “You know, tell me what NY values are because I don’t know”.
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 mean that’s the wrong guy”, he says with a smile, “but I’ve always been fighting for the people who don’t have a voice”.
The two sparred during Thursday night’s Republican debate over “New York values” and over Cruz’s birth in Canada, an issue on which Trump has harped over the past two weeks.
“I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York”, Trump said Thursday.
“There are many, many wonderful working men and women in the state of NY”.
But when we’re assessing his chances, it’s important to note that one of his key advantages on the national stage doesn’t do almost as much for him in this case.
“Instead of celebrating Christmas, New Yorkers celebrate a pagan holiday called Festivus” Killam says. “I am not. Canadians are rugged and outdoorsy, where I myself am mostly made of pudding”, Killam said. “But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and focus on money and the media”, Cruz said to the crowd at the Fox Business Network debate in SC.
The Texas senator repeated his “apology” later Friday at a campaign event in Tigerville, South Carolina, again mentioning the same issues as he listed in Columbia.
“We’re losing our country and we have to be courageous and stand up for God and what’s right”, said Ellen Kayton, after hearing Cruz at an event centered on religious liberty here in SC this fall.
“Often conservatives are just all over the place and they dissipate their strength by spreading it out across too many candidates”, said New Hampshire state Rep. Bill O’Brien, a state co-chair for Cruz.
Trump continued to hit Cruz over the matter in a handful of other tweets. Some people gave him pretty good reviews on the debate. That had Christie and Rubio, both of whom hope to win New Hampshire, repeatedly locking horns. Cruz and other conservatives who’ve adopted this attack are trying to paint Trump as a card-carrying member of the urban liberal elite which spits upon traditional values and wishes to impose their progressive cosmopolitanism on the entire nation.
Tapper asked Trump about his proposal to create a “deportation force” to remove the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. In the past, Trump has cited the efforts of President Dwight Eisenhower to remove undocumented immigrants as part of “Operation Wetback” during the 1950s.
“You know, I think most people know exactly what NY values are”, the candidate said. Maher wondered why Cruz could even fathom saying such a thing, for Cruz looked even worse when Trump showed some heart while talking about 9/11. “You have great constitutional lawyers that say you can’t run”, Trump said.
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During the address at the congressional hall, his seventh and last, President Obama was unequivocal about what he called campaign rhetoric aimed at ridiculing Americans and friends of America.
