Ted Cruz may not like New York "values," but its cash is OK

Republican U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump (l.) and Ted Cruz at the Fox Business Network Republican presidential candidates debate in North Charleston, South Carolina on Jan. 14, 2016.

Ted Cruz does not agree with New York’s “New York values.” While he’s somewhat hard-pressed to define those values, he knows them when he sees them — as did the audience at Thursday night’s debate, he suggested, to chuckles. The upshot was that, “[n]ot a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan,” as he put it last night.

Happily for him, though, a lot of campaign money does.

We mapped all of the money Cruz had raised in the city through the end of September — a period during which he raised $15.2 million in individual contributions. Of that total, $1.40 out of every $100 came from the five boroughs of New York City.