Cruz offers ‘apology’ to New Yorkers

His wife, Heidi, is employed by Goldman Sachs, which has its headquarters in Manhattan, and Cruz during his 2012 Senate candidacy sought and received a loan from the financial giant.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have rallied around Trump’s defense of the city. “I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been let down by liberal politicians in that state”.

Asked by reporters whether he wanted to apologize for saying this week that Donald Trump, his main 2016 rival, “embodies NY values”, Cruz turned the tables, laying out a three-minute riff on things for which he would rather apologize.

De Blasio said Cruz “has no trouble taking money from New York City, but he’s quick to insult our people and our values”.

The mayor said Cruz “owes the city, its people and the heroic first responders an apology”.

No doubt, from the richest suit on Wall Street trying to fill his already oversized pockets, to the poorest mother of four working three jobs to put food on the table, everyone in NY is hustling to get that cash – but isn’t that just a microcosm of the entire country? “I doubt he’ll do it, not that we need it, not that it would mean all that much, but if he really thinks he is even close to the business of being able to govern that’s what he would do”.

Cruz has raised $490,600 from New Yorkers, his presidential campaign finance filings show. “They want to see you look somebody in the eye and that’s what we do every time”.

Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday refused to back down on his “New York values” comment.

He then scolded Cuomo for his remarks that people who don’t embrace his liberal values are not true New Yorkers.

“I, and some of the other widows, would love to give him a tour and talk to him about how NY came together and America came together”, he told ABC News.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and top challenger Ted Cruz ended a longstanding truce in spectacular fashion on Thursday night with bitter exchanges during what may have been Mr Trump’s strongest debate performance to date.

“When the World Trade Centre came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than NY”, he told the debate’s audience.

According to a poll by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, 47.6 per cent believed Mr Trump won the debate.

“I apologize to all the small businesses that are fleeing New York City because of the crushing taxes and regulations that are making it impossible to survive”.

NEW YORK (AP) – When Ted Cruz sneered at what he called Donald Trump’s “New York values”, some New Yorkers took it very personally.