The new survey of 683 likely GOP voters was taken on January 15 – the day after the latest GOP presidential debate, held in North Charleston, and the same day former 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen.
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You get all of these candidates that go to New York City or go to Los Angeles and get in front of this group or get in front of that group and they sort of, well lets just say, don’t have the level of enthusiasm and commitment in front of those groups as they do in front of a group that’s more at the base of our party. So, Trump’s campaign will benefit from this Cruz slip-up in a state where Trump’s presence already dominates the Manhattan skyline.
Cruz made sure to knock Republican candidates like Rubio who Cruz sees as insufficiently tough on immigration – which is also one of Trump’s signature issues.
Trump and Cruz clashed repeatedly in Thursday’s presidential debate over whether Cruz’s Canadian birthplace disqualified him from the presidency, and whether Trump embodied “New York values”, which Cruz said were not compatible with conservatism. “I live in New York City”.
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….”
He alluded to Mr. Cruz being hypocritical, noting that he has raised millions of dollars from New Yorkers. “My views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa, perhaps”.
“He didn’t report his bank loans”, Trump told delegates to the South Carolina Tea Party Convention. Mill, S.C., event. When the elevator doors were pried open, a smiling Cruz emerged and joked, “Who put Donald Trump in charge of the elevator?”
Complementing Cruz’s attack was a tweet sent out by his campaign Saturday morning, embedding the 1999 Russert interview on “Meet the Press”.
Trump, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week”, also threw in some vintage ad hominem rhetoric.
Cruz said Trump’s record doesn’t match the conservative values he’s espoused. “He was so nice to me”.
“You know, I think most people know exactly what NY values are”, the candidate said. “Look, the truth is, he’s a nasty guy”.
“Nobody likes him, no one in Congress likes him, nobody anywhere likes him once they get to know him”.
Cruz said conservatives represented the last chance to revive America.
“For whatever reason, Donald doesn’t react well when he’s going down in the polls”, Cruz said Saturday. “All of a sudden he wants to build a wall”. Marco Rubio is in second place.
“Trump suggested Saturday that the Texas senator is owned by big banks like Citi and Goldman Sachs”.
Cruz has said that, while he was born in Canada, he is constitutionally eligible for the presidency because his mother was a USA citizen. In New York people don’t say “hi” to their neighbors.
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Rubio, too, hammered Cruz on immigration.
