Cruz derided 'New York values' with a sneer, but now he must face New Yorkers
NEW YORK — Ted Cruz aboriginal accurate “New York values” with a affront in January, during an account with a radio base in Boston — a abode area acrimony for New York, at atomic in the apple of sports, runs deep.Cruz afresh it again, and again, and again, anecdotic “New York values” as too socially advanced and focused on money. It was a way to beating Queens-born agent Donald Trump in foreground of humans who lived far from Manhattan.
But now, with the delegate-rich New York primary looming, Cruz accept to attack in the Empire Accompaniment — a abode accepted for its bare-knuckles access to all things political, a ability to hit aback if slighted and association who allege up if they disagree.
“Take the F U train, Ted,” blared the awning of the New York Daily News Thursday, the day afterwards Cruz was greeted by hecklers at a attack stop in the Bronx. Cruz was swarmed by media as he absolved into a Dominican-Chinese restaurant area he met with bounded and acceptance leaders. Two men were abject out by badge afterwards they disrupted the gathering.
“Ted Cruz has no business getting in the Bronx. This is an immigrant community,” one of the men, who wore a Yankees hat, said in English. He again approached cameras and said in Spanish about Cruz, a Cuban American: “He’s a racist who represents the white supremacy. We’re not traveling to acquiesce that in our neighborhood.”
Cruz was appointed to appointment a allotment school, but switched to the restaurant at the endure minute; the Daily News appear that acceptance threatened a airing out if he showed up. Academy and attack admiral did not acknowledge to requests for comment.
Despite the reception, Cruz banned to apologize for his “New York values” criticism.
“Let’s be clear. The humans of New York apperceive absolutely what those ethics are,” Cruz told reporters in the Bronx. “They’re the ethics of advanced Democratic politicians, like Andrew Cuomo, like Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, like Charlie Rangel, all of whom Donald Trump has supported” financially.
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“If you wish to apperceive what advanced Democratic ethics are, chase Donald Trump’s checkbook,” he added.
When asked by CNN if he regretted application the phrase, Cruz said, “not remotely.”
But Cruz’s rivals on the attack aisle — and the bounded admiral actuality who accept circuitous with him — pounced.
“Do you bethink during the agitation if he started lecturing me on ‘New York values,’ like we’re no good?” Trump said during a Wednesday assemblage on Long Island in foreground of added than 10,000 people. Trump recalled talking about the Apple Trade Center at a GOP agitation in January, if Cruz said “New York values” represented abutment of aborticide rights and same-sex marriage.
“We all apperceive humans that died. And I’ve got this guy continuing over there, searching at me, talking about New York ethics with scorn, distaste, with hatred, with hatred. So folks, I anticipate you can overlook about him,” Trump said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich — the third applicant in the GOP chase — appear a TV atom on Friday that plays audio of Cruz talking about “New York values” over footage of New York City, including the Statue of Liberty and lights animated from the Freedom Tower to admire the Sept. 11, 2001, agitator attacks.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), who acutely criticized Cruz’s advancement that he would accompany aback a arguable and asleep New York Badge Department counterterrorism affairs there that targeted Muslims, aswell took the befalling to skewer the candidate.
“Ted Cruz angered the humans of New York if it was politically acceptable beforehand in the primary season,” de Blasio said on CNN. “Ted Cruz thinks he’s smart, but the humans of New York City are traveling to see through him.”
But Cruz soldiers on in New York, because he has to — the Republican chase has now angry into a coursing for delegates. New York awards them by aldermanic district, giving Cruz a adventitious to ascertain out wins on affable terrain. If he talks about “New York values,” Cruz generally cites the added conservative, rural allotment of the accompaniment and how politicians banned fracking, which Cruz said took abroad bags of advantageous jobs from the region.
Cruz has aswell aggressively courted the Orthodox Jewish association throughout his attack and visited Brighton Beach in Brooklyn on Thursday, area he fabricated matzo with a accumulation of 3- and 4-year-olds amidst by adults.
As he aerial the chef from the matzo he fabricated against an oven, Cruz started talking about Passover, which begins April 22.
“Next year in Jerusalem,” said Cruz, a Southern Baptist, application the byword that comes at the cessation of a Seder.
He was told that, because Passover had not yet come, the adapted byword would be “this year in Jerusalem.”
“Well, next year in Jerusalem,” he said, “hopefully I’ll charge a bigger even to get there.”
Cruz aswell got a balmy accession Thursday central a assemblage captivated at a Christian academy in the upstate boondocks of Scotia, about 20 afar northwest of Albany. A few hundred humans animated for Cruz, who was presented with a allowance bassinet that included T-shirts and a bear of locally brewed beer.
“Y’all don’t blend around,” he said of the beer. Someone captivated a assurance that read, “New York ethics Ted Cruz.”
But outside, the accession was icier. Signs apropos to Cruz as “Lyin’ Ted” and “sleaze” afraid on a fence. A woman absolved a dog cutting a “vote Trump” towel. The home beyond the artery noticeably displayed a “Hillary in 2016” banner.
Even some humans central the assemblage were not abiding what to accomplish of Cruz’s estimation of New York values. Erica Smith, a 31-year-old calm mother who wore a T-shirt with the Republican albatross on it and a “Hillary for prison” button, came to see Cruz because she is borderline whom she will vote for in the April 19 primary. She brand Cruz far added than Trump but hasn’t fabricated up her mind.
Smith said she understands allotment of area Cruz was advancing from with the remark.
“The backroom of New York are actual base and our taxes are high,” she said, abacus that the choir of humans in upstate New York generally are not heard.
“As far as the ethics of New York,” she said, “I’m appreciative to be a New Yorker.”
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