He also said he would begin making multi-day trips to early primary states like Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada, where he can choose to stay at his own hotel, the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
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“If you could leave here today knowing in your heart who Ted is – what the personal and professional qualities are that caused me to fall in love with him – my hope is that you leave here today having fallen in love with Ted Cruz”, she said. Legal experts – including prominent liberals – overwhelmingly agree with Cruz. They have all kinds of money, all kinds of lobbyist.
But there were rumors that summer that the second son of England’s King George III was about to sail to America. “Canadians are allowed to take foreign citizenship while keeping their Canadian citizenship”. In addition to requiring thirty-five years of age and fourteen years of residency, the Constitution limits the presidency to “a natural born Citizen.”1×1”.
“The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens”, Vattel’s book reads. Though most constitutional scholars interpret this undefined clause in Cruz’s favor, uncertainty is all Trump needs to plow ahead in the court of public opinion. That’s what I always thought before, you have to be born on the land.
“Next couple of weeks, I’m going to be seeing you so much that you’re going to be so sick of me”, Trump said in Clear Lake. “She’s never been a citizen of any other place”.
The only possible resolution for this embarrassing inconsistency involves a stroll into some very tall weeds and reference to the Nationality Act of 1940, which outlines precisely which children become “nationals and citizens of the United States at birth”.
Johnson added: “Eleanor was never a citizen of Canada, and she could not have been under the facts or the law”.
Back in 2013, Trump said that Cruz was “perhaps not” eligible to run for president.
“Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Sen”.
“Why does someone born in Canada think that he may qualify as a “natural born citizen” of the United States?”
The latest arrests, Cruz said, showed the folly of the administration’s desire to welcome “tens of thousands of Syrian refugees”. Neither one makes a potential candidate any more or less qualified, any more or less patriotic.
The controversy over Obama is pure nonsense – he was born in Hawaii, not Kenya. Those suits were dismissed.
Unfortunately, for those who cherish this scenario, there’s an insurmountable obstacle – aside from the fear that any chief executive installing the ambitious Cruz as his VEEP might find it hard to secure a life insurance policy. “The courts won’t touch this”, said Temple University law professor Peter J. Spiro.
McCain was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone where his father was stationed.
Elsewhere, the trailing Republican candidates made efforts to bolster their popularity before the key votes in Iowa and New Hampshire. Sen.
So who is excluded by this qualification? The problem with the natural-born-citizen test is that it is both unnecessary and harmful – not just a relic but an insult to the almost 20 million Americans who are citizens by virtue of naturalization. Cruz has gone out of his way to alienate many of his Senate colleagues, and McCain has called him and his allies “wacko birds”.
“Trump is a man who likes to be on the couch with a good cheeseburger and likes to watch TV – he’s a homebody”, said his friend and former adviser Roger Stone, who recently founded a pro-Trump Super PAC, a political group that can raise unlimited funds to advocate for Trump as long as it does not coordinate with his campaign.
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Trump “is the only one of the candidates on either side that has answers to questions”, Smith said.
