All he’s allowing is that Cruz presumably considered his eligibility before he made a decision to run and felt confident he qualified as “natural-born”.
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Republican front-runner Donald Trump has recently raised questions about Cruz’s citizenship. Perhaps that’s why McCain, when asked by a Phoenix television station to comment on Cruz’s eligibility, responded: “I think there is a question”.
“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”, Trump told The Washington Post, saying that Cruz could get tied up in a lawsuit if elected. The term natural born citizen is not defined by the Constitution, but was created to protect the country from a negative foreign influence. McCain, who was the GOP presidential nominee in 2008, was born to American parents on a military base in Panama. A child of an American citizen mother born overseas is an America citizen, absent some very specific circumstances that even Trump isn’t challenging.
McCain noted that the Canal Zone was “a territory of the United States of America” when he was born. “I’m not an expert on the natural-born clause in the Constitution and people have various opinions”, Paul said on Wednesday, after “joking” that Cruz could be the “prime minister of Canada”.
Immigration has become a hot-button issue not only in the campaign generally but particularly for the Republicans and for Ted Cruz, a Cuban-American senator from Texas.
Cruz faced the reality of that policy Wednesday in Storm Lake, when he met a woman now protected from deportation by Obama administration executive actions. Questions like this by a senior senator regarding a top contender for the presidency from the same party are divisive and unnecessary.
“I think people are beginning to realize what Trump is like – I really do”. According to the Congressional Research Service: “The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would mean a person who is entitled to US citizenship “by birth” or “at birth”, either by being born “in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born overseas to USA citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for US citizenship “at birth”.
Cruz, who has lived in the USA since the age of four, officially stopped being a Canadian in June 2014.
But some strict constitutionalists argue that this definition is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.
Pastors in the Hawkeye State have previously expressed doubts about whether Rubio would adhere to socially conservative doctrine as president-particularly since Paul Singer, a NY billionaire who has funneled millions of dollars into promoting gay rights, announced he would back Rubio last fall. John McCain, Mitt Romney’s father George Romney and former Arizona Sen. It became am emblem of Cruz’s unpopularity among Republican colleagues as well as Democrats.
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In reality, as worded, Senator Cruz’s pithy tweet could have been interpreted as suggesting Trump’s campaign in general has “jumped the shark”, while implying nothing about birtherism aimed at Obama.
