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Cuomo says Cruz should apologize over “New York values” comment
In two separate interviews Friday, the Texan senator trolled by apologizing in a backhanded manner: “I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been abandoned by liberal politicians. I apologize to all the pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-Second Amendment New Yorkers who Gov. Cuomo brazenly told have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are”.
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“I apologize to all of the African-American children who Mayor de Blasio tried to throw out of their charter schools instead of providing a lifeline ot the American dream”.
During Thursday evening’s debate, Cruz said on the values issue, “And listen, there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of NY”.
The tabloid New York Daily News ran a front-page headline “Drop Dead, Ted”.
He also apologized to law enforcement, saying de Blasio stands instead with “looters and criminals”.
One theme emerged in particular as New Yorkers piled in: the idea that the senator may be less fastidious when it comes to financing his campaign to be his party’s nominee for the November presidential election.
Trump and Cruz dominated social media mentions in the debate. We don’t take kindly to people like you. American values are “E Pluribus Unum” – out of many, one.
Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, defended Cruz’s comments. New Yorkers and New Yorkers at heart, famous and otherwise, are letting him have it with #NewYorkValues after his comments at the GOP debate Thursday. “It doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun”.
Outside of an event in Columbia, South Carolina Friday, Cruz refused to back down.
Cruz has been called out repeatedly for accepting donations from wealthy NY conservatives, while publicly claiming there aren’t many conservatives in Manhattan.
Rep. Steve King, a conservative Iowa Republican who supports Cruz, suggested on CNN that Cruz’s remark had backfired, saying, “It would have been better on the part of Ted Cruz not to have had that exchange”.
“They elected a commie as mayor”, he said, referring to de Blasio.
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Mark Silk, a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College, said that while he has no reason to believe that Cruz is anti-Semitic, “he’s conjuring up an image of a fast-talking, secular, money-preoccupied, media-saturated NY character”.