A quarter of Republicans think White House hopeful Ted Cruz is disqualified to serve as US president because he was born in Canada to an American mother, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
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Donald Trump on Friday weighed in for the first time on Ted Cruz’s failure to disclose a loan from Goldman Sachs during his 2012 Senate campaign, and also slammed the Texas senator over his recent criticism of “New York values” and the controversy over his Canadian birth.
Shmuley Boteach, a New Jersey rabbi and former congressional candidate who has been introducing Cruz to New York Jews, told MSNBC he didn’t take the Texas senator’s “New York values” attack too seriously.
Houston attorney Newton Schwartz filed the suit in a federal court on Thursday to determine if Cruz is a “natural born citizen” of America.
“I think most people know exactly what NY values are”, Cruz said. “I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been let down by liberal politicians in that state”, he told reporters at a campaign rally in SC. “When the World Trade Center came down I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York”, Trump responded.
He went on to say he had “good news to the good people of NY”. “We’re not judgmental, negative and hostile the way Cruz was”, Cuomo said. News 13 will bring you live coverage from Charleston with the latest on the presidential race.
Cruz went further by describing how NY is full of wonderful, working, productive citizens but that New Yorkers do not tend to be conservative.
Cuccinelli: Social liberalism, and a pushy version of it, and I think that’s sort of an expectation in the political arena, that’s what we understand.
“Now, I hope that was the apology they were looking for”, Cruz said to laughter and applause. “Not that I believe they need it or they want it. But if he had any class, he would apologize”.
If Cruz continues to eat into Trump’s support by winning Iowa and picking up Trump supporters in South Carolina, Nevada and elsewhere, you can bet Trump will call in his lawyers.
Earlier this week, Cruz criticized Trump, saying, “Donald comes from NY and he embodies NY values”.
The mayor called Cruz’s remarks hypocritical Friday. I don’t know any other city in the country or region that could have responded the way NY did to 9/11. “So when you thing about it, there’s enormous hypocrisy”, de Blasio suggested.
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“Coming to NY and basically begging for money from the same so-called rich people that he attacks”, King continued. Cruz also is backed by an $11 million super PAC funded by NY hedge fund manager Robert Mercer of St. James.
