Ted Cruz is taking his evangelical message to Upstate New York. Read below from The Buffalo News.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz used an upstate Christian school as a setting to begin reaching out to upstate voters, especially evangelical voters he has successfully wooed in other states.
"I will not compromise away your religious liberties, and I will not compromise away your Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms," Cruz said Thursday morning.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, made his remarks to about 1,300 people at the Mekeel Christian Academy in Scotia, an Albany suburb, in the first of his upstate stops where his campaign hopes to gain traction with evangelical Christians.
Cruz lags behind Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, in most polls ahead of the state’s April 19 primary.
That message will play far better tin Western New York than in NYC. Cruz’s goal: keep Trump under 50 percent statewide and win at least 20 percent of the vote in certain congressional districts.
By doing that, he’ll be able to prevent Trump from sweeping all 95 delegates. Every single delegate counts now.