Ted Cruz on Sunday defended his criticism of “New York values”, words that he says embody Republican rival Donald Trump.
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It’s hard to imagine that there was once a bromance between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
During his speech, Cruz hits on Trump for supporting Democrats, Cruz also stated that, “We need a leader prepared to do whatever is needed to keep this country safe, typically, that doesn’t include spending time on Twitter”. “Ted Cruz purposely, and illegally, did not list on his personal disclosure form personally guaranteed loans from banks”.
Cruz accused Trump of inventing the NY values theme himself.
Trying to stay close behind, Rubio jabbed Trump and Cruz repeatedly as he campaigned across Iowa this past weekend, warning voters they “can’t just elect any Republican”.
It all changed after Trump said that Cruz was a political liability because some people believe he’s not a “natural born” citizen.
Cruz supporter Carolyn Church of SC said she wasn’t among those booing Trump. “You can’t make deals with people like that, and it’s not a good thing, it’s not a good thing for the country”.
To be sure, large numbers of voters in Iowa and New Hampshire say they’re still undecided, and previous contests in both states have swung in unexpected directions just days before the caucuses and primary.
Cruz had taken his shot against Tump’s “New York values” during last week’s debate and missed, incurring successful return fire in the form of a reference by Trump to New Yorkers’ heroism on September 11, 2001.
Cruz was conferred American citizenship at birth because his mother is an American citizen, and legal experts have largely agreed that would qualify him for natural-born citizenship.
Cruz also questioned Trump’s temperament, saying that “in terms of a commander-in-chief, we ought to have someone who isn’t springing out of bed to tweet in frantic response to the latest polls”. He also derided the Texan, for a second day, on the recent disclosure of low-interest loans obtained from Goldman Sachs Group and Citigroup in 2012 that weren’t noted in campaign finance reports at the time.
Cruz is “the only one who’ll do what he says he’s going to do”, said Teri Sullivan, 61, a businesswoman from Aiken, while Trump will likely act like President Obama and start issuing executive orders.
Brown has been neutral in the race, so it did not go unnoticed when he introduced Trump as “the next president of the United States”. “There’s no reason any New Yorker should be helping him with money so he can attack us”. Cruz went after one of central tenets of the businessman’s campaign: that no one has a more extreme position on immigration.
“He obviously didn’t want the voters to know he is totally controlled-lock, stop, and barrel- by Citibank and by Goldman Sachs”, he said.
“You talk about the values in New York City, they’re the values of America: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, Cox said on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
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Trump ended by bringing Cruz’s loans and birthplace together in one attack. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Republican primary…
