Donald Trump, who famously questioned whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, is now raising questions about the Canadian birth of Republican presidential campaign rival Ted Cruz. “That’d be a big problem…” Trump said. “You have to get rid of them first, I like one thing at a time”. Though his Cuban father was not a United States citizen at the time of Cruz’s birth, his mother was.
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Trump has gone back and forth on the issue of Cruz’s citizenship, suggesting in December 2014 that Cruz’s Canadian birthplace could be problematic.
Trump added, “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”.
Trump’s attack on the Texas Senator was not a wayward shot.
Corey Lewandowski said he doesn’t believe Cruz was honest when he said Monday that he’d not only, like Trump, boot undocumented immigrants out of the United States – he’d also prevent them from re-entering the country legally.
Washington (CNN)Marco Rubio is making an overt play for evangelical voters in a new ad featuring the Republican presidential candidate discussing his Christian faith. “I am going to stick with Fonzie jumping the shark”, he said. This is in accordance with USA law, which states that any person born to an American citizen is automatically granted citizenship regardless of the place of birth. Especially given the fact that regardless of where he was born, his mother was a USA citizen. However, when asked whether Trump should view him as a threat, Cruz not only refused to engage, but called on Trump to stay silent as well.
Trump, who was one of the most vocal “birthers” pushing the false claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya – which incidentally would still have made him a natural born citizen – has questioned Cruz’s citizenship in the past.
More than four in ten Republican voters in California (43%) say they would be dissatisfied or upset were Trump to become their party’s nominee, while only about half as many say this about Cruz (21%) or Rubio (24%).
The consensus among legal elites makes court intervention even less likely, he said.
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The record: While Cruz has never gone on the record in support of a pathway to citizenship – “amnesty” in immigration hardliners’ parlance – he did propose amendments to the 2013 immigration reform bill that would have allowed for the legalization of undocumented immigrants, but foreclosed the possibility of citizenship. In his typical stemwinder style, Trump boasted of his advantage in self-selected polls, touted his intelligence and Ivy League education, bashed the press and took aim mostly at Democrat Hillary Clinton.
