When pressed to explain what “New York values” meant, Cruz said that, “not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan”. A similar loan was obtained from Citibank, but it was unclear what was used for collateral, the Times said.
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The New York Times reported Friday that Cruz wrote a letter the day before to federal-election officials to say both bank-loan disclosures had been “inadvertently omitted”.
Catsimatidis – best known in politics for big donations to conservatives and a failed mayoral bid in 2013 – gave the maximum $5,400 to Cruz this spring (as well as donating thousands to many other 2016 candidates, including Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Lindsey Graham), but said he was upset to hear the remark, which seemed to insinuate that the city was too socially liberal.
The split between the two is evidence of the closeness of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, particularly in Iowa.
“I recognize that Donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in Iowa”, Cruz said. Say whatever you want. The New York Daily News has had for two days mocked Cruz on the front-page, with today’s “Slime Doesn’t Pay, Ted” for Cruz fund-raising from New Yorkers while insulting them, following Friday’s vintage “Drop Dead, Ted” which featured the Statue of Liberty making an obscene gesture and included a sub-headline “Go back to Canada”. The billionaire businessman made the comments at a tea party convention in SC in front of crowd split among supports of the two leading GOP White House contenders.
Trump has long argued on the campaign trail that his wealth insulates him from undue influence from Wall Street.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump lashed into each other Saturday, with the Texas senator unloading on Trump’s record, temperament and fitness to be commander in chief.
“How many of us have had the experience where we have a politician, they come up, they campaign and they sound great?”
On Saturday, after climbing out of an elevator that got stuck before fully hitting its floor, Cruz joked to reporters: “Who put Donald Trump in charge of the elevator?” Trump asked his Twitter followers on Saturday if Cruz had any unreported loans from Canadian banks. We don’t say they’re in New Orleans [so] we don’t help them.
Trump began the morning slamming Cruz in a series of tweets, taking a break to appear at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before resuming his tirade.
The volleying over “New York values”, the details over Cruz’s loans and the focus on Cruz’s birthplace, she said, is just “Trump being colorful….” Reporter: And tonight, the democratic race is also coming here to SC. In a retooled stump speech flush with Trump overtones and delivered right before Trump took the stage himself, Cruz offered a checklist of fights that he had led that his opponents – like Trump – hadn’t.
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That wasn’t the case at Thursday’s night’s debate.
