Mark Levin to Trump over Cruz feud: ‘Cut the crap’

At the SC debate Thursday, Cruz and Trump engaged in a heated back and forth, in which Cruz said that Trump “represented NY values”.

Complementing Cruz’s attack was a tweet sent out by his campaign Saturday morning, embedding the 1999 Russert interview on “Meet the Press”. Earlier this week, Cruz portrayed the first unreported loan, from Goldman Sachs, as a paperwork error. “The billionaire businessman made the comments at a tea party convention in SC in front of crowd split among supports of the two leading GOP White House contenders”. It has allowed the Cruz campaign to resurface Trump’s old liberal positions in a way that doesn’t seem stale and like something the media has covered before.

With Cruz nipping at his heels, Trump ventured into more traditional political territory on Friday.

New Yorkers are weighing in on Ted Cruz’s “New York values” remark at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate with their typical city bite.

“He and his people obviously said, you know, we’ll try to tie the liberal NY around Donald Trump’s neck and use that to diminish his conservative credentials, and of course it backfired”, he added.

“Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio have all demanded an apology”, Cruz said, “and I’m happy to apologize”.

The two men also sparred over the Canadian-born Cruz’s eligibility to be president.

Thousands of New Yorkers tweeted their own responses to Mr Cruz.

“If you’re going to say something, be prepared for a backlash”, said Eric Logsbon of Dover.

“Was there another loan that Ted Cruz FORGOT to file”.

Cruz declined to comment on the Times report when asked by a CNN reporter during an appearance in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday. Trump answered by describing how New Yorkers responded after the September 11 terrorist attacks, banding together to rebuild the city and help one another.

That all sounds pretty much like what Ted Cruz was saying about “New York values” being at odds with conservative ones. “In one 30-second soundbite, he was offensive to gays, he was offensive to women, he offended 18 million New Yorkers, one of the largest congressional delegations, by the way, in the country, and you can’t govern that way and it’s not who we are”, Cuomo said.

In Smith’s Facebook post, he invited Cruz to the Big Apple. “I’ll tell you what”.