Mayor Bill de Blasio: ‘Trump’s Right’ About New York Values
Trump questioned if Cruz could legally be president because he was born in Canada.
Cruz then proceeded, in detail, to attack Cuomo, the governor of New York, for his disapproval of fracking, the controversial energy extraction process, while also aiming his sights on de Blasio, New York City’s mayor, for his policies on taxes, charter schools and policing.
“Look I think that it’s an issue that legitimately needs to be resolved by the courts once and for all, because I think there is a lot of debate in this country about what the definition is”, De Blasio added.
At the sixth GOP debate Thursday night, Cruz clarified what he meant by those values.
“Ted Cruz insulted the people of NY and by the way (it was) blatantly hypocritical on his part”, he said on CNN.
“Despite the ever present danger and warnings of further attacks, like the people of London did in the 1940s and the people of Israel for their entire history, New Yorkers are telling our enemies that they can not break our spirit”, Giuliani declared, or “our steadfast belief that the morality of our cause and the objective of our America will prevail”. “What we need to do is get a group of experts together, including people from other countries, some of our friends from Israel, who have had experience screening these people and come up with new guidelines for immigration, and for visas, for people who are coming into this country”, he said. “And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”.
The Christian commentator says by evoking the sacrifices of New York police and fire fighters during 9-11, Trump deftly countered Cruz’s attacks on New York City values. He’s against traditional values.
Mark Silk, a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College, said that while he has no reason to believe Cruz is anti-Semitic, “he’s conjuring up an image of a fast-talking, secular, money-preoccupied, media-saturated NY character”. Marco Rubio, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. He first name-checked political correctness as one of the primary speedbumps for American safety and security.
“Well, listen. I have spent my entire life defending the U.S. Constitution before the U.S. Supreme Court. It is supposed to be interpreted and applied as originally intended”. “That’s hardly supporting someone, that’s just saying someone should get an up or down note”.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
“He demonstrated somebody in my view who is ready on day one to be commander-in-chief”, Graham, who recently dropped out of the race, said of Bush’s debate performance.