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AP Report – Ted Cruz is Toast – Getting to 1237 is Impossible

Thanks to the excellence of “New York Values,” Ted Cruz, the Canadian born Republican Senator for Texas, has absolutely no mathematical way of getting the 1237 delegates necessary to win the Republican nomination. His only hope now is for the Republican establishment to hand him the prize at a contested convention.

Cruz was shut out from winning any delegates in Tuesday’s New York primary, while Trump won at least 89 of the 95 delegates at stake and Kasich won three, according to the AP.

Cruz acknowledged Wednesday that a contested convention is his only path to the GOP nomination.

“We are headed to a contested convention at this point. Nobody is getting 1,237,” Cruz said in an interview with Philadelphia radio host Chris Stigall. “Donald is going to talk all the time about other folks not getting 1,237. He’s not getting there either. Neither of us are getting the 1,237.”

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New York Mayor’s Office Hammers Ted Cruz – “Be a man!”

Ted Cruz came all the way to New York and tried to explain his “New York values” insult to the handful of Republicans gathered at his event. But in the process, the Texas Senator via Canada, went out of his way to insulted New York’s mayor and by extension, all Liberals.

Well the mayor’s office shot back!

“Some friendly advice for Ted Cruz,” spokeswoman Karen Hinton wrote in an email to The Hill.

“Be a leader. Be a man. Start sounding more presidential and less extremist. Talk about NYC’s job growth, low crime rates, need for more affordable housing, parental leave and the city’s successful pre-K effort. Bring people together. Stop dividing them.”

Hours earlier, the Texas senator held a press conference in New York City in which he took direct aim at the city’s mayor as he explained his controversial remarks about GOP front-runner Donald Trump espousing “New York values.”

There, Cruz explained that he was referring to the “liberal Democratic politicians,” like de Blasio, who he said “have been hammering the people of New York for some time.”

Cruz accused de Blasio of trying to “to throw young African-American and Hispanic kids out of schools” by shuttering charter schools, and cheered the police officers who turned their backs on the mayor after relations soured with City Hall in the aftermath of Eric Garner’s controversial death.

Cruz is campaigning in New York ahead of the April 19 primary.

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New York Republican Donors Upset with Ted Cruz “New York Values” Statement

Ted Cruz insulted New Yorkers while trying to raise his poll numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the Republican presidential hopeful forgot that while insulting the entire state, there are Republicans and Republican donors in the state too, and these people just might not like the fact that he is demoralizing them.

Longtime New Yorker and Republican donor John Catsimatidis is one of these people. In an interview, Catsimatidis told MSNBC that Ted Cruz should be ashamed for insulting New Yorkers with his slam at “New York values.”

“I think that whether you’re a Democrat or whether you’re Republican, that every New Yorker was upset about it. Because it was nuts!” the grocery store mogul and Republican donor told MSNBC on Friday afternoon. “A presidential candidate should not try and tear up the country by tearing up section by section.”

Catsimatidis — best known in politics for big donations to conservatives and a failed mayoral bid in 2013 — gave the maximum $5,400 to Cruz this spring (as well as donating thousands to many other 2016 candidates, including Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Lindsey Graham), but said he was upset to hear the remark, which seemed to insinuate that the city was too socially liberal.

“I think he’s trying to say that ‘Hey, you guys are New York: You got too many gays, you got too many transgenders, you got too many this, you got too many that.’ Look, we live in the greatest city in the world, New York, and I think he should be ashamed,” he said, calling the remark a “mistake” but saying he’d considering hearing the senator out more if he apologized.

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NY Governor Slams Cruz – Says He’s “Divisive” and “Anti-American” – Video

Ted Cruz launched what turned out to be a very feeble criticism on Donald Trump when he spoke about Trump’s “New York Values,” suggesting that New Yorkers live by a different standard and a different set of values than the rest of the nation, that somehow our value system doesn’t add up to his own or that of the rest of the country. His statement was an obvious slap to the Republican frontrunner and all of us in the Big Apple.

Today, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, slammed Cruz and his comment as divisive and “anti-American.”

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