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GOP Debate Analysis:

 Trump, Cruz assert their standing atop Republican field

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, left, speaks as Republican                                           agreed. And Trump, ac-          Republican primary vot-
presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the Fox Business Network Republican                                 cused of having “New York       ers. Rubio accused Cruz of
presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston,                               values,” gave an emotion-       switching positions on im-
S.C.                                                                                                                              al recounting of his home-      migration himself.
                                                                                                                                  town’s response to the          Cruz was also on the de-
                                                                                                     (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)  Sept. 11 attacks.               fensive about his failure to
                                                                                                                                  “When the World Trade           disclose on federal elec-
The Associated Press           to go before early voting      mander in chief, saying the                                         Center came down, I saw         tion forms some $1 million
NORTH CHARLESTON, South        begins. Thursday night’s       senator has a “big ques-                                            something that no place         in loans from Wall Street
Carolina (AP) — Repub-         debate was a shift from the    tion mark” hanging over his                                         on Earth could have han-        banks during his 2012 Sen-
lican presidential candi-      relative civility between the  candidacy, given his birth                                          dled more beautifully,          ate campaign. He said
dates Donald Trump and         billionaire and the senator    in Canada to an Ameri-                                              more humanely than New          it was little more than a
Ted Cruz asserted their        in the days leading up to      can mother. Cruz suggest-                                           York,” Trump said. “That        “paperwork error.” The de-
standing atop their party’s    the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses.      ed Trump was only turning                                           was a very insulting state-     bate came at the end of a
race in a fiery debate, over-  Trump renewed his sugges-      on him because he’s now                                             ment that Ted made.”            week that has highlighted
shadowing a crowded field      tion that Cruz may not be      challenging for the lead in                                         Sen. Marco Rubio, who           anew the deep rifts in the
of rivals with just two weeks  eligible to serve as com-      Iowa, and the businessman                                           holds a slight advantage        Republican Party. South
                                                                                                                                  over the field of more main-    Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley,
                                                                                                                                  stream candidates, found        a rising star, was praised
                                                                                                                                  himself in heated exchang-      by many party leaders for
                                                                                                                                  es with both Cruz and New       including a veiled criticism
                                                                                                                                  Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.     of Trump’s angry rhetoric
                                                                                                                                  Rubio likened Christie’s        during her response Tues-
                                                                                                                                  policies to President Barack    day to Obama’s State of
                                                                                                                                  Obama’s, particularly on        the Union address, only to
                                                                                                                                  guns, Planned Parenthood        be chastised by conserva-
                                                                                                                                  and education reform            tive commentators. Trump
                                                                                                                                  — an attack Christie de-        said he wasn’t offended by
                                                                                                                                  clared false. Cruz confront-    Haley’s speech and stuck
                                                                                                                                  ed Rubio over his support       with his controversial call
                                                                                                                                  for a Senate bill that would    for temporarily banning
                                                                                                                                  have created a pathway          Muslims from the United
                                                                                                                                  to citizenship for people       States because of fear of
                                                                                                                                  in the  U.S. illegally, an un-  attacks emanating from
                                                                                                                                  popular position among          abroad. q

                                                                                                                                  Report:New Yorkers blast Cruz’s
                                                                                                                                  comments on ‘New York values’

                                                                                                                                  KAREN MATTHEWS                  New York state’s record of
                                                                                                                                                                  going for the Democrat in
                                                                                                                                  Associated Press                the presidential election
                                                                                                                                                                  means that Republicans
                                                                                                                                  NEW YORK (AP) — When            rarely have to worry about
                                                                                                                                                                  insulting its biggest city. It
                                                                                                                                  Republican        presiden-     has long been a winning
                                                                                                                                                                  strategy in more conserva-
                                                                                                                                  tial candidate Ted Cruz         tive parts of the country,
                                                                                                                                                                  namely the Midwest and
                                                                                                                                  sneered at what he called       the South.
                                                                                                                                                                  During the debate, moder-
                                                                                                                                  Donald Trump’s “New York        ator Maria Bartiromo asked
                                                                                                                                                                  Cruz to explain past com-
                                                                                                                                  values” in their party’s lat-   ments he had made about
                                                                                                                                                                  Trump embodying “New
                                                                                                                                  est debate, some New            York values.”
                                                                                                                                                                  “You know, I think most
                                                                                                                                  Yorkers took it personally.     people know exactly what
                                                                                                                                                                  New York values are,” Cruz
                                                                                                                                  The ever-combative Daily        said.
                                                                                                                                                                  “I am from New York. I
                                                                                                                                  News tabloid published a        don’t,” Bartiromo said.
                                                                                                                                                                  So the conservative ex-
                                                                                                                                  big front-page illustration     plained: “Listen, there are
                                                                                                                                                                  many, many wonderful,
                                                                                                                                  of the Statue of Liberty giv-   wonderful working men
                                                                                                                                                                  and women in the state of
                                                                                                                                  ing Cruz the finger, with the   New York. q

                                                                                                                                  headline: “DROP DEAD,

                                                                                                                                  TED.” And in a reference

                                                                                                                                  to the Texas senator’s birth-

                                                                                                                                  place, the tabloid added:

                                                                                                                                  “You don’t like N.Y. values?

                                                                                                                                  Go back to Canada!”

                                                                                                                                  On the morning after Thurs-

                                                                                                                                  day night’s debate, New

                                                                                                                                  York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,

                                                                                                                                  a Democrat, denounced

                                                                                                                                  the candidate and de-

                                                                                                                                  manded an apology for

                                                                                                                                  comments he called “ob-

                                                                                                                                  noxious on every level.”
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