Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are now running neck and neck among Republican voters in California, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio still within striking distance in third place.
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“I don’t know if he does, but I sure do”, Earnest said to laughter. When Goldwater was born, Arizona wasn’t yet a state.
Cruz’s unequivocal answer comes as he is neck-and-neck with Trump in Iowa just weeks before that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
He wouldn’t want Hillary Clinton to be able to discredit or the Democrats to disqualify him with it. He encourages Cruz to go to court and get a ruling from the federal courts: “You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”.
“It was a very wise move that Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship 18 months ago”. Trump said in an interview that aired on “The Situation Room”. “And I said, ‘I’m not a member, ‘ and they said, ‘Yeah, you are – you have a member number.’ Apparently he’d made me a member of one of his golf clubs, and I didn’t even know it!” His mother, Eleanor, is from DE, while his father, Rafael, is a Cuban who became a US citizen in 2005.
He also claimed that it was The Washington Post – not him – that raised the issue.
When asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer if he believed Cruz was a natural born citizen, Trump couldn’t give a straight answer.
He also offered Cruz his “free legal advice”.
But Trump has been ratcheting up his attacks on Cruz in recent weeks.
The goal of the ad, according to a press release from the Cruz campaign, is to “highlight the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs”.
“What you see is that beyond just the horse race, where (Cruz) is in a statistical tie with Trump, he seems to be much better positioned to be the beneficiary of the declining fortunes of other candidates”, Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Tuesday that Cruz’s Canadian birthplace and his holding a double passport was a “very precarious” issue that “a lot of people are talking about”.
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Cruz himself cites Barry Goldwater, George Romney, and John McCain as precedents.
