“Well, I’ve been married to him for 15 years and I know pretty well who he is, so it doesn’t bother me at all”. But to get there, they’ll first have to make it through IN, where things aren’t looking so good for Ted Cruz.
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Heidi Cruz was campaigning for her husband in IN when she said, “Ted is an immigrant”.
Ted Cruz’s campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier quickly came out and said it was a mistake.
On Fox & Friends Weekend yesterday, Trump said that it sounded like Heidi Cruz was trying to say he was–as Geraldo Rivera put it–from the “Hispanic world”.
‘Heidi Cruz, nice woman, said my husband – you heard about this, right?
Cruz told Yahoo “it’s amazing” that people play up the Internet meme, blaming its popularity on the media. That is a story she shares repeatedly on the campaign trail.
There’s already a lot of controversy surrounding whether the Constitution says it’s legal for Ted to be president because he was born in Canada to his Canadian mother and his Cuban-American father.
Trump in March retweeted an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz, which compared her appearance unfavorably to his wife, former model Melania Trump.
For months Donald Trump has insisted that meant Cruz was not a natural-born citizen eligible to become president.
‘Do you know that Ted has been winning the millennial vote in state after state?’ she continued.
‘Ted is an immigrant.
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Trump would counter this claim, as he has throughout the campaign cycle, by suggesting that Cruz isn’t American at all.
