Ted Cruz was back on the campaign trail Wednesday, sliming New York again in a bid to pick up votes in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary.
“Let me tell you what Trump and the media want to convince everyone — that Pennsylvania is a suburb of Manhattan. Manhattan has spoken and Pennsylvania will quietly follow into obedience,” Cruz said, suggesting that pushy New York elites were telling the common folk what to do.
But Manhattan was the only place in the state that Trump did not dominate — losing his home borough to Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The Texas senator, however, was undaunted, sarcastically adding that, “Donald Trump won his home. Truly a remarkable achievement.”
The latest poll in the Pennsylvania race, conducted by CBC/YouGov, shows Trump leading big with 46 percent to Cruz’s 26 percent and Kasich’s 23 percent.
Cruz had alienated New Yorkers with his knock on “New York values” earlier in the campaign.
Trump, meanwhile, took to Twitter to bash his rival, who finished a distant third in New York., even losing Westchester’s 16th Congressional district to Ben Carson, who dropped out of the race weeks ago but whose name remained on the ballot.
The district includes the northern Bronx, Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Rye.
“Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race. Now all he can do is be a spoiler, never a nice thing to do. I will beat Hillary!” Trump tweeted.
While Cruz can’t lock up enough delegates before the summer, he can still win the nomination in a contested convention.
Hours after Cruz’s Hershey, Pa., appearance, Trump spoke at a rally at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, abandoning the comity he displayed in his victory speech on Tuesday.
He went back to serving up red meat to the fired-up crowd, bashing “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary,” bellowing “Get ’em out!” at protesters and declaring “I love waterboarding!”