Given that Cruz’s family moved to Texas when he was a pre-schooler, it would seem the chances of him seeking to rise to presidency to do Canada’s bidding are remote.
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The Kentucky Republican hit his colleague and fellow presidential candidate on Fox News on Monday for being born in Canada and perhaps not fitting the constitutional requirement that a President be a natural-born citizen.
The Supreme Court has never taken up the issue of whether American citizens born overseas are eligible to be president.
“Wyoming law requires that a nominee be qualified to hold the office to which they are seeking if they are to appear on the ballot”, Hunt added. By law, Cruz was a US citizen at birth, because his mother is American.
Ted Cruz officially renounced his dual Canadian citizenship in the summer of 2014 which some fellow GOP candidates have deemed unusual. It has led others to question Cruz’s eligibility, including Sen. But a bigger question here is has the Trump campaign “jumped the shark”?
In his defense, Cruz has cited commentary from two legal authorities, Neal Katyal and Paul Clement, in a March 2015 Harvard Law Review article that said “there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a “natural born Citizen” within the meaning of the Constitution”. “You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”. “Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was territory when he ran in 1964”, said McCain in a Phoenix radio interview on the Chris Merrill Show last Wednesday.
Tribe also notes that a “living constitutionalist” judge who Cruz would dislike may find Cruz to “ironically be eligible because it no longer makes sense to be bound by so narrow and strict a definition”.
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In September, Public Policy Polling found that only 28 percent of Cruz supporters believed that Obama was born in the US, while 62 percent of them claimed Cruz was American-born. “She never registered to vote and never applied for Canadian citizenship”.
