Cruz, the Texas senator battling Trump for the “outsider” vote among registered Republicans, was born in Calgary in 1970 while his parents were working in the oil business.
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Cruz dismissed the comments on Tuesday with a lighthearted tweet implying Trump’s remarks were far-fetched. He first reacted on Twitter, posting a link to a video from the 1970s television show “Happy Days” showing the character Fonzie water skiing over a shark.
“What the American people are interested in is not bickering and back and forth”, Cruz told reporters before a town hall in Sioux Center that drew hundreds of people.
Rubio’s super PAC is set to hit the New Hampshire airwaves Tuesday with two new spots targeting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – who stands in the way of Rubio’s effort to consolidate support from establishment Republicans, particularly in the Granite State.
The Constitution requires presidents to be a “natural-born citizen”. He was a dual citizen at birth, receiving his USA citizenship through his mother.
The Texas senator, who was born in Alberta, Canada, also renounced his dual citizenship on May 14, 2014, and released his birth certificate.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (left) and fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. “It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”.
In a wide-ranging address that took voters through Hillary Clinton’s work as a young lawyer in Arkansas, ways to combat heroin addiction, the political achievements of President Barack Obama and the failings of America’s 14th president, Franklin Pierce, Bill Clinton argued that the Democratic front-runner offers the best plan to restore “broadly shared prosperity”.
In the interview, Trump alluded to an ongoing lawsuit in Vermont where a man is trying to keep three Republican presidential candidates, including Cruz, off the ballot.
Trump told the Post he was not attacking Cruz, simply repeating chatter he had heard about Cruz’s birthplace. The attack attempts to paint Cruz as two-faced about his conservative values, using audio of Cruz at a New York City fundraiser saying that fighting gay marriage would not be a top priority of his administration. Trump has questioned how Cruz’s evangelical Christian faith fits with his Cuban heritage and criticized his opposition to ethanol subsidies.
That might explain why Ted Cruz – now in the midst of a six-day bus tour that will help him touch down in all 99 counties in the state by February 1 – surged to a lead over Trump in Iowa in December.
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“I wasn’t aware of the question as stated, know little about the ad or campaign strategy, but after connecting with the Trump Campaign, I understand it was done that way to demonstrate that the United States has become a dumping ground for other countries who are continually taking advantage of us”, Cohen said in a statement.
