Cruz, born geographically in Canada to an American mother, has been a U.S. citizen since birth under United States law and recently produced his mother’s birth certificate proving she was born an American citizen.
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“The Constitution says natural born citizenship”, added Graglia, who specializes in constitutional law.
“I think there is a question”, McCain said.
But Lars Johnson, a retired chiropractor who lives near Decorah, Iowa, said he wasn’t concerned that Trump was sticking to massive rallies. “In a way, that may be better for Trump – there would be no definitive court ruling and he could continue to raise doubts”.
They were either taught in school, or picked it up elsewhere, that in order to run for president, a candidate had to be born on American soil, or on property deemed to be a part of the republic.
“There is an Iowa way of campaigning and deciding caucuses”, Cruz told supporters packed into a basement of a pizza restaurant in Decorah. “A lawsuit by a member of the public or a member of Congress would nearly certainly be dismissed for lack of standing”.
And then during the general election campaign, during a stop in his original native state of Michigan, Romney himself got in on the act of making a birther joke against the president. But led by Donald Trump – who claims he’s making these noises for Cruz’s “own good” (of course you are, Don) – various figures in the Republican/conservative universe have begun questioning and disputing this fact. That’s more than four times as many as say the same thing about Cruz at seven percent. When asked about the issue, Cruz has said it’s “quite straightforward and settled law that the child of a US citizen born overseas is a natural born citizen”.
Trump on Thursday suggested Cruz sue first, seeking a court ruling that he’s eligible to be president even though he was born north of the border. I’m telling you, we’re going to win.
Among independents, 41 percent say Clinton, 34 percent say Trump and another 20 percent think there’s no difference. The polls, so far, support that.
“There is an Iowa way of campaigning and deciding caucuses”, Cruz told supporters packed into a basement of a pizza restaurant in Decorah.
He helped get George W. Bush elected president in 2000 – before the Bush White House enraged conservative activists by running up federal deficits. As he did earlier this week, Trump offered Cruz some free legal advice.
The truce between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz has been tested in recent days, but it seems to remain intact – at least for now. It was not an obstacle to John McCain, born in the Canal Zone. Ah well. Anyway, Coulter isn’t the only Trump spokesperson who’s engaged in dutiful hedging and backtracking in order to lend credence to Trump’s unsubtle conspiracy amplification: Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, Pierson blamed Cruz for the questions about his birthplace. Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a USA citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal process of “naturalization” to become a United States citizen.
The Texas senator’s rebuttal comes hours after McCain said during a Phoenix radio interview that Cruz’s birth overseas and his eligibility to become president is “worth looking into”.
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Graham did not provide a timetable on endorsing another GOP presidential candidate, but he would not back the top two national front-runners, Trump or U.S. Sen.
