Most legal experts believe Cruz’s American mother is enough to qualify him for the presidency, as Cruz was a United States citizen at birth.
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Trump also cited Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, a Florida Senate candidate who has threatened to hit Cruz with a lawsuit challenging his eligibility to serve as president.
Cruz has shrugged off Trump’s attacks beyond tweeting a video of Fonzie from Happy Days jumping the shark and blaming the media for making it into an issue.
Trump reiterated on “Fox News Sunday” that the Supreme Court never has defined what “natural born citizen” means in the constitutional provision outlining the requirements to serve as president. At a morning rally here, Trump again raised questions about whether the Texas senator is eligible to become president because he was born in Canada. Likewise, George Romney, Mitt’s dad, who ran for president in ’68, was born in Mexico.
The Urban Polling Division document of the “preliminary list of electors” for Calgary as compiled by officials, called enumerators, who went door to door to compile voter lists, includes Raphael Cruz, self-employed, and Mrs. Eleanor Cruz at a southwestern Calgary address.
Cruz said the attacks against him are telling. And my mother – look, the Internet has all sorts of fevered swamp theories, but the facts are simple.
“[Cruz] was born in Canada”, Trump said at the Surf Ballroom here, his second of two stops today in Iowa. This birth certificate not only confirms Darragh’s citizenship by birth, but the citizenship of Cruz, her son, as well. “She’s never been a citizen of any other place”.
“He has a question mark”, Trump said about Cruz’s citizenship status.
What Barack Obama says is he doesn’t care what federal law says, he will not enforce it.
“I don’t want to win this way”, he said.
“Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are deadlocked in both Iowa and New Hampshire three weeks before voting begins in the 2016 presidential race, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll finds”.
Not all of the Republican crossfire involved Trump and Cruz.
“Let me tell you: From Ted’s standpoint and from the party’s standpoint, he has to solve this problem”. Trump is best on illegal immigration, 46 percent of GOP Caucus-goers say, with 22 percent for Cruz and 15 percent for Rubio. Ted Cruz needs to resolve questions about his eligibility to be president ahead of a possible showdown with Democrats. “And according to one of the great lawyers of the country at Harvard, with strong opinions on this, the whole thing has not been-as he said, this matter has not been determined”.
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Not only does the GOP establishment want to keep Cruz and Trump out of the White House, but they also don’t think either candidate could be elected.
