"The rest of the country knows exactly what New York values are, and I gotta say, they're not Iowa values and they're not New Hampshire values"
Cruz does not use the City qualifier, he is attacking the entire state. He's jumped the shark on this. NY is the news and media center of the nation. They (the media) will not be kind to him. Also their are tens of millions of former NYers living all over this country, he pissed them off too. The "smartest guy ever" sure says some dumb things at the worst possible time to boot.
It’s really funny, the headlines reference Cruz’s remarks about “New York City”, yet it escapes you.
You also appear to miss the fact that the song “New York, New York” is about the city.
“They (the media) will not be kind to him. Also their are tens of millions of former NYers living all over this country, he pissed them off too.”
Overstatement. The media already were and will be unkind to Ted Cruz. He made that calculation correctly.
A lot of former NY City residents (such as myself) fully agree with Ted Cruz. That’s why we left. The leftists who left would never get his vote anyway.
Oh no!
That leaves me quaking with fear.
NOT!
Also their are tens of millions of former NYers living all over this country, he pissed them off too
I live in New York City and I am not pissed off. However I was really pissed off when the very same Cuomo turned round and said conservatives are not welcome in New York.
Not necessarily.
1. The NY media was never going to be kind to Ted Cruz. (So no harm there)
2. Cruz spoke the truth. Just as the hypocrite Trump had acknowledged in his 1999 interview about how pro-choice he is NY values are different from Iowa values.
3. Trump looks like a whiner. My favorite part of Trump's whining was in an interview after the debate where he says elections can't be won by insulting people. See his remarks on Megyn Kelley, Carson, Cuban evangelicals, Carly's face, etc. Trump lost me as I question whether he can be trusted on immigration or any issue. Great showman but he's all hat and no cattle.
4. Cruz's national strategy does not involve New York. Obviously as Cruz's explanation/faux apology suggests: The liberals of New York have a different outlook on abortion, guns, gay marriage, socialist economic policy, etc. In other words it is the epicenter of liberalism. Cruz was right everybody (with intelligence) knows the difference between NY values and the values of flyover country they regularly insult through their media control.
WELL PLAYED CRUZ.