“If the Republican establishment really wants to stop Donald Trump in New Hampshire it might require some more people dropping out of the race”, said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling.
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The fact that Trump holds a double-digit lead over his nearest competitor in the New Hampshire polls raises the question of whether his ascendancy results from an unusual political dynamic this cycle or whether New Hampshire is subtly changing its own outlook.
“I will expand the map”, Trump said, singling out Pennsylvania and NY as states where he can put his theory to the test. He said, “What the American people are interested in is not bickering and back and forth”.
Cruz’s comments came as he tries to close the deal with Iowans on his most ambitious trip yet in the Hawkeye State. “We need to focus on what matters”. So the only question is whether Cruz, who was born in Canada and whose father was a Cuban refugee and whose mother was an American citizen, was a US citizen or national at birth.
Trump and Cruz share cordial relations bordering on friendship.
“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”, he said, according to The Washington Post.
The yes-he-is argument goes like this: Cruz’s mother was a US citizen when she gave birth to her son, and even though the future senator from Texas experienced his first moments north of the USA border with Canada – until age 3, actually – he didn’t have to petition for citizenship.
No longer officially tied to Carson, Bennett confessed on Wednesday that he could hardly imagine a situation in which Donald Trump did not end up with the Republican nomination. As the New York Times writes, the Constitution restricts the presidency to a “natural born citizen.” “Listen, the Constitution and the laws of the United States are straightforward”.
The possibility that Cruz may not be eligible for the White House is something that Trump himself even dismissed last fall.
On Thursday, Donald Trump is going into enemy territory, holding a rally in Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont, where he may have sold more than 10 times too many tickets for the venue.
Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014, amid speculation he was preparing for a presidential run, less than a year after he his birth certificate. But during his 2016 campaign, Trump has done his best to avoid discussing the issue.
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Cruz responded to Trump on Twitter with a link to the iconic TV character Fonzie jumping over a shark in the TV show “Happy Days”.
