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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has spoken disparagingly about “New York Values,” been a supporter of strict immigration legislation, anti-LGBTQ legislation, and arcane abortion rules and still, for whatever reason, thought campaigning in New York City would be a good idea.

On a visit to the Bronx on Wednesday, Cruz was unsurprisingly not welcome. According to the New York Post, about a dozen people showed up to a rally the senator held alongside Ruben Diaz Sr.,who is a conservative Christian minister. Two of those dozen people turned out to be protestors.

When word reached Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy that Cruz would be visiting the school, students planned to stage a walk out saying, “The presence of Ted Cruz and the ideas he stands for are offensive, his views are against ours and are actively working to harm us, our community, and the people we love.”

It didn’t help that Cruz doubled down on his “New York Values” comments during his campaign stop in the city, saying “Let’s be clear. The people of New York know what those values are, the values of liberal Democratic politicians like Andrew Cuomo, like Anthony Weiner, like Eliot Spitzer, like Charlie Rangel, all of whom Donald Trump has supported, given tens of thousands of dollars to throughout the years.”

Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., whose father Cruz was in town to meet, said “Ted Cruz is a hypocrite. He not only offended New Yorkers, he offended Bronxites, and now he’s here today in New York and in the Bronx looking for money and votes.”

Tough town.