Cuomo to Cruz: You should apologize
If Ted Cruz gets the Republican presidential nomination and wants to name Donald Trump as his vice president, Democrats will go after Trump with lawsuits.
Cruz, for his part, still shows no signs of backing down from the comments, which were meant to be an attack on his GOP rival Donald Trump.
Trump rebutted Cruz’s attack with an invocation of 9/11, and on Friday morning, prominent New Yorkers including Republican Rep. Pete King accused Cruz of hypocrisy and worse.
But now that Cruz is creeping up in the polls, actually leading Trump in some of them in Iowa, suddenly the fact that Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and American mother is a very big deal.
He has criticized the Republican front-runner throughout his campaign for president, even calling his fellow New Yorker’s rhetoric “dangerous”.
Cruz touched on all his typical talking points in his latest diss as he apologized to those “denied jobs because Gov. Cuomo won’t allow fracking” and to the New Yorkers who are “pro-life and pro-marriage and pro-second amendment who were told by Gov. Cuomo they have no place in NY”. He said donors in NY should not give to Cruz.
“Hillary Clinton and Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio have all demanded an apology”, he said referring to the Democratic presidential frontrunner who is a former New York senator, the New York governor and the mayor of New York City. “I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who have been abandoned for years by liberal politicians”.
Smith, who is a retired NYPD officer, wrote in a Facebook post that he is “disappointed” by Cruz’s remarks.
The use of “New York values” as a term of abuse rankled some city residents.
He added that New Yorkers are focused “around money and the media”.
Following Trump’s declaration to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, CNN’s Chris Cuomo got heated during an interview and called the plan “stupid”.
The New York Daily News’ cover Friday had a succinct reply to Sen. “I recognize what Donald says on the campaign trail today is fairly conservative, but voters are discerning”. I may have thought Trump had an off night-his attempt to smear Ted Cruz with a “birther” theory was embarrassing-but his supporters are undaunted. ‘I’m hoping that Ted Cruz doesn’t actually feel that way’.
Rep. Dan Donovan, another New York Republican whose district includes Staten Island and Brooklyn, also hit Cruz by pointing to September 11 and Hurricane Sandy.