“Cruz will apologize. This will all blow over.”
No he wont.
According to some of the posts here, this will win him a landslide. For reasons we’ve yet to formulate.
The only thing Cruz can do now on this is either to apologize, and make the people covering for him look foolish, or go whole hog and stomp on NY in a needless rhetorical war where he will have to belittle them daily in order to stand by the comment.
The narrative got away from him. My advice is to apologize now before it really gets cemented into the political narrative.
He has to apologize. The libs and Dem media are saying it was a slap at Jews. We know Ted loves Israel, but many low info folks do not.
Why apologize to people that would have never voted for him in the first place. Still there are few conservatives left in New York who will continue to share his values and maybe vote for him. The rest can vote for whoever they want. That's their choice.
Ted can't compromise his values or opinions for the sake of political correctness to satisfy the majority of New York liberals. So what if they are offended? You can't be a true conservative and support liberal values. The two don't mix. We have too many like that already in Washington. So my advice is stand firm.
Texans elected him to the Senate to do that and so far he has not disappointed us. So give'em hell Ted and may the force be with you.