Cruz sucks ZERO delegates

Cruz's New York value: Zero delegates

By Nick Gass

After weeks of racking up victory after victory in the delegate fight, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was left completely out in the cold Tuesday night in New York.

As Donald Trump scored what is likely to be a near-sweep of his home-state's New York delegates with more than 60 percent of the popular vote with 98.5 percent of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, Cruz received less than 15 percent overall, and only cracked 20 percent in two congressional districts.

According to The Associated Press' allocation, Trump has received 89 of the 95 delegates, while John Kasich, who finished a distant second with 25 percent, picked up three delegates. (Three more are not yet allocated.) The governor of Ohio still trails Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the overall delegate count, despite Rubio having dropped out of the race more than a month ago.

The Texas senator, who tried to explain his "New York values" remark this week as repeating Trump's own words from a 1999 "Meet the Press" interview, failed to resonate in a state where he had hoped to at least pick off a few delegates here and there.

Cruz preemptively shrugged off his New York defeat on Tuesday night, kicking off his campaign for Pennsylvania with a speech in Philadelphia in which he declared, in an homage to a line from "Rocky," that "America has always been best when she’s lying down with her back on the mat and the crowd’s given the final count."