“The Texas Republican on Tuesday morning released a new presidential campaign ad that showed a different side of border security, featuring actors wearing business suits and clutching laptops and briefcases fording rivers and running through the desert”.
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Republican front-runner Donald Trump reintroduced the issue of Cruz’s presidential eligibility Tuesday during an interview with the Washington Post. “That’d be a big problem…”
“How do you run against the Democrat, whoever it may be, and you have this hanging over your head if they bring a lawsuit?”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t say Thursday whether she thought Cruz was a “naturally-born” citizen when asked about it at her weekly press conference.
The U.S. Constitution says that only a “natural born citizen” can be president, a category long believed to include anyone who was born to a U.S. citizen, even if outside the country.
“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, Trump skirted attacking Cruz directly, instead arguing “a legal mind on the conservative side”, whom he declined to name, “has been saying that he has concern that Ted Cruz may not be qualified to be president of the United States”.
For his part, Cruz has responded via Twitter – by invoking the classic “Jump the Shark” scene from Happy Days.
Watch Martin and the NewsOne Now panel discuss Republican presidential candidates’ refusal to attack GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in the video clip above.
Trump, who a few years ago was actively involved in spreading conspiracy theories over President Barack Obama’s citizenship, has now suggested that voters should think twice about the possible ramifications of supporting Cruz who was born in Canada. The most common explanation is that someone who is a USA citizen at birth – with no need to go through the process of becoming a naturalized citizen – is a natural born citizen.
Mr Cruz was born in Calgary to an American mother and a Cuban father.
Governor Mitt Romney was born in Mexico, and Senator John McCain was born on a military base in the Panama Canal zone. But Trump said voters should be concerned.
“I think I’m going to let my response stick with that tweet”, he said.
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Paul finds himself in the low single digits in polls in both states, following behind a crowded pack of candidates-with Trump far and away in the lead. The idea of trying to delegitimate the first viable black candidate for president by effectively claiming he is a not a real American is just too Freudian for words.
