I'm from New York

[Jharr827]

I'm getting pissed listening to Cruz insult us. He's such a despicable person who has no right to criticize anyone. I don't know why I'm letting him even get to me but fuck him.

[SusanCalvin]

1. A Texan agrees. nt

[narnian60]

2. This one, too.

[closeupready]

3. Why? What's he saying? Does he think that El Paso commercial was for real?

What a moron.

It was a. COMMERCIAL!

[Jharr827]

5. Using the fact that trump

Is from New York to say New Yorkers have bad values and how Iowans are basically better than us. He said it the other day but they brought it up tonight.

[dorkzilla]

27. Clearly us NYers suck...which is why so many people relocate/immigrate here

Such a stupid thing to say. But think of how many other candidates he gets in that net? Trump, Sanders and Hillary (though the after isn't a native).

He doesn't like NYers because he's such a dick he'd get admitted to Bellevue within a week if he spewed his shit here.

[SusanCalvin]

6. Whatever it is,

It has to be self-serving and disgusting.

[dhill926]

4. turn it off.....fuck 'em....

[Jharr827]

7. I did

Not sure why I even turned it on. They're not laying out any policies and of course not being called out on them in their safe fox debate.

[Jim Lane]

8. Mr. Cruz, the New York primary is on April 19. New York has 95 delegates to the GOP convention.

OK, it's not as many as Texas (155), but it's not to be sneezed at. It's almost twice as many as Virginia (49), one of the Super Tuesday states you're targeting.

Several oppo research staffers have undoubtedly filed this one away. If, by April 19, you have not been eliminated but also have not clinched, you just might be reminded of your attitude toward New Yorkers.

[JI7]

16. Cruz has no chance of winning in NY , even if Trump wasn't running Cruz would still lose there

Christie or one of the others would win. so he loses nothing by going after ny and gets support in texas and other places for doing it.

[Jim Lane]

29. It's not winner-take-all. Even Carnival Cruz could pick up some delegates in New York.

You can read the allocation rules here. For delegates allocated by Congressional District and for 11 statewide delegates, it's winner-take-all for a candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote, but otherwise it's more complicated. Even if Trump (or someone else) were to break 50% statewide to get all 11 of those delegates, Cruz could still hope to win delegates in some CD's. For example, under similar rules on our side in 2008, Clinton obviously won the state, but won the split of pledged delegates by only 139 to 93. This was partly because the Obama campaign had studied the rules carefully and knew that they could pick up some delegates even in CD's that they lost.

[Jharr827]

18. That's what I was thinking

Way to piss a whole state off!

[ecstatic]

9. Same here. Reminds me of Palin's

bullshit.

[yewberry]

10. I'm from Boston, my friend.

Reality check: the only time that republicans care about us is when we are in hijacked planes being flown into buildings or in buildings being flown into by hijacked planes.

I am not joking or making light. They fucking *hate* us unless we are a prop they can use to stir up shit.

[Blue_Adept]

15. Yup

Just west of you and have had that experience over the course of many years. Even worse because of what our various sports teams do to theirs as well.

[Jharr827]

21. What pisses me off

Is when they say democrats divide the country when it's so obviously them! That was 100% proof.

[DFW]

11. One more Texan agrees with you!

Of course, three of my grandparents were born in or near New York City (one grandfather was born in South Carolina, but he, of all people, was deputy mayor of NYC once upon a time!).

[leftynyc]

12. In order for me to be honest

I HAVE to give credit to Trump for the way he handled it.

[Jharr827]

19. Yes as much

As I can't stand trump Cruz is so much worse and trump handled it right for once!

[JHB]

13. Dog whistle to his fan club...

New York has been the go-to bogeyman for evangelicals since at least the 19th century: Sodom & Gomorrah-on-the-Hudson, nest of vipers and corruption, the dark forest of immigrants and Catholics and Jews, Oh My!

Newt Gingrich practically built his career on pledging to protect the decent people of Cobb County, Georgia from invasion by the hordes of the People's Republic of Escape From New York.

[bklyncowgirl]

14. I was actually rooting for Trump to take his head off--and cheered when he did. I'm so conflicted.

I was surprised that the applause for Trump wasn't louder, Cruz I guess knows his audience.

If in some horrible turn of events I was forced to choose between Trump and Cruz it would be The Donald over Dudley Dooright in a New York minute. Cruz offers us the nasty bigotry of Trump without the humor.

[Jharr827]

20. Yes if between Cruz and trump

I'd so vote for trump. I couldn't believe I had to be on trumps side of something but he handled it well!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Jeez, you New Yorkers, so sensitive ...

... kidding.

If you squint just right, the current Dem leader is also a New Yorker, with houses, senate seat, all that in her background.

[bklyncowgirl]

22. And the guy who's charging hard up on her left was born in Brooklyn. nt

[Odin2005]

26. As is obvious from his awesome accent.

God, I love Bernie's accent.

[HereSince1628]

24. What are you saying she's an example of a real conservative from New York?

Because isn't Cruz's point that New York doesn't produce real conservatives?

[Act_of_Reparation]

23. Cruz is just following in the footsteps of his illustrious neocon forebears.

Northeasterners aren't Real Americans ™.

[Odin2005]

25. I'm assuming giving the Iowa caucuses he was trying to appeal to "Flyover Country".

There is a lot of old populist resentment here in more rural Midwestern areas against people from the coastal big cities who are seen as arrogant, dismissive, and patronizing towards people in "Middle America".

[Javaman]

28. Born and raised in NYC now have lived in Austin Texas for 25 years

cruz is a wannabe.

people in NY think he's an asshole. people here in Austin think he's an asshole.

he plays to the lowest common denominator.

[Goblinmonger]

30. How did he not know he was handing Trump the 9-11 card?

That being said, certainly NYC has it's own personality. I mean, I like it, but it's a unique city. This Wisconsinite supports you.