Because he gets more GOP voters by bashing NY in primary states. No true conservative can ever win New York with its current demographics. NYers like to bash red staters and even Jerseyites so they need to grow a pair when it’s tossed back at them.
“Because he gets more GOP voters by bashing NY in primary states.”
Actually, it has led me to look more closely at Cruz and his wife’s ties to New York banks, the Bush administration and others such things.
If you are running for president of the United States, it is a good idea not to attack big chunks of the United States. Unless one is a community organizer type.
Cruz’s oblique personal attack via the entirety of a city was stupid.