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Trump is a real slime ball for suggesting that Cruz was referring to the heroes of 911, most of whom are conservative! (firemen, policemen and construction workers). If Cruz did make an error it was in underestimating the sleaziness of his opposition. In other words, he should have spelled it out more clearly so to avoid any BS like this.

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TRUMP: And just so - if I could, because he insulted a lot of people. I've had more calls on that statement that Ted made - New York is a great place. It's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people.

When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York. You had two one hundred...

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... you had two 110-story buildings come crashing down. I saw them come down. Thousands of people killed, and the cleanup started the next day, and it was the most horrific cleanup, probably in the history of doing this, and in construction. I was down there, and I've never seen anything like it.

And the people in New York fought and fought and fought, and we saw more death, and even the smell of death - nobody understood it. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air.

And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers. And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sixth-republican-top-tier-debate-2016/
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Also from the debate...

CRUZ: there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York. But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro- gay-marriage, focus around money and the media.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sixth-republican-top-tier-debate-2016/

“Trump is a real slime ball for suggesting that Cruz was referring to the heroes of 911”

Then maybe he should have been specific when he said what he said.

You are PO’d that Trump took an opening left there by Cruz, instead of letting it go just to spare Cruz the consequences of his own screw-up?

And you want him to be the nominee in the Fall? You think the Democrats are going to care how much people here whine over how “unfair” it supposedly is?

If Cruz did make an error it was in underestimating the sleaziness of his opposition. In other words, he should have spelled it out more clearly so to avoid any BS like this.

Yes, but that was a big error - it let his opponents define his statement for their own purposes.