Cruz criticized Trump for having ‘New York values’

“I’m happy to apologize”, Cruz said.

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Cruz said, “it’s been an interesting 24 hours, where Donald Trump, and [New York Governor] Andrew Cuomo (D), and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), and Hillary Clinton, have all demanded an apology because, apparently, they’re unhappy about people acknowledging that they have embraced New York values”.

The largest third-party registration is the Independence Party: It has been known to endorse Mike Bloomberg, who registered as a Republican to run for mayor of New York City, but which also supported the Democratic nominee for New York’s governor several elections in a row. After a minute of Cruz trying to explain what the phrase meant, Trump began talking about the city and it residents following the terror attacks on 9/11. And many people had no trouble calling out “New York” as meaning “un-American”.

Cruz insists he has met the constitutional requirements to be a “natural-born” citizen because his mother was born in Delaware. He has criticized the Republican front-runner throughout his campaign for president, even calling his fellow New Yorker’s rhetoric “dangerous”.

Cruz doesn’t think much of New York’s media, either: He boasted during the debate of his poor relationship with the New York Times, after the paper caught him failing to disclose a $1 million loan from his wife’s employer, Goldman Sachs. “Those aren’t Iowa values, but this is what we believe in NY”. When Trump again raised the issue during Thursday night’s debate, Cruz shot back that though the Constitution hasn’t changed in recent months, his polling numbers have — making such attacks more attractive.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo hinted at it strongly Friday morning, and others have quizzed Cruz and his surrogates on the subtext, who have stuck to the “liberal social views” line.

Trump received 38 percent of the mentions on Twitter, dwarfing Cruz’s share of 22 percent, according to Twitter data. “I told you so”, he wrote.

Protesters briefly interrupted Trump’s interview in Des Moines, Iowa, chanting, “Donald Trump”.

“I guess the bromance is over”, Trump told reporters Thursday in North Charleston, S.C., where the two had just clashed in the debate. But he was the most strident and blunt in his responses and had a strong retort when addressing Cruz’s criticism of “New York values”.

“I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than NY”.