Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) topped Donald Trump in Monday's Iowa caucuses, and he thinks it all goes back to his January attack on the real estate mogul's "New York values."
"As I travel the country here in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, everyone knows what New York values are," Cruz told ABC News after his win. "It's the values of the elite liberals that have done enormous damage to New York and they're a bunch of cops and firemen and hardworking men and women in the great state of New York who are fed up with the out-of-touch values of Manhattan."
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