MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Thursday night tore into Rick Tyler, a spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), over the campaign’s move to criticize Donald Trump for embodying “New York values.”
“Rick, are you part of the ‘I hate New York’ crowd?” Matthews asked Tyler.
“I love New York, you got to be kidding me,” Tyler responded. “We love New York.”
Matthews then asked, “It has bad values?”
“No one said they were bad values, it’s just different values,” Tyler replied.
“You are pulling back,” Mathews said in response. “You’re saying it’s not a statement of bad values to say, ‘He’s got New York values?'”
“You said that. Chris, they are different values,” Tyler insisted. “It’s Steve King or Peter King. In Texas, we can have open carry. You can’t even have a weapon in New York City, you’d be arrested. It’s the people they send to Congress. New York sends liberals. Texas sends conservatives. It’s attitudes on marriage.”
As Tyler listed the differences between Iowa and New York, Matthews jumped in to ask, “How long did it take you to come up with this, Rick? How many hours of desperate struggle and spin led to, ‘We’re not knocking this guy for having New York values?'”
Later in the interview, Matthews declared that Tyler was “in retreat.”
“Everybody watching knows that you’re hiding,” the MSNBC host said.
“No, c’mon,” Tyler responded.
“I’ve had to do spin in my time too. That’s what you’re doing,” Matthews said.
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