Cruz dismissed Trump’s line of thinking out of hand.
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Another Republican candidate, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, said on CBS” “Face the Nation’ it was unclear if Cruz qualified as a natural born citizen and that Democrats will likely challenge that.
Cruz renounced Canada after his dual citizenship was revealed by the Dallas Morning News in 2013.
“As a legal matter, the Constitution and federal law are clear that the child of US citizens born overseas is a natural-born citizen”, he told CNN’s “State of the Union”.
“I mean, you’ve got to get a declaratory judgment, you have to have the courts come up with a ruling or you have a candidate who just can not run because the other side will immediately bring suit and you’ve got that cloud on your head”.
Harris’ mother, Betty Cambra, 78, of Lincoln, California, said Cruz parrots Trump at every turn. There was never any question about his mother’s American citizenship.
As Cruz took the lead in Iowa before its February 1 caucuses, Trump’s glare followed.
“The only way to end it is to repeal that statute… we will repeal Obamacare, but unlike Obama, I don’t intend as president to be – to use his word – an emperor”, Cruz said.
“Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are deadlocked in both Iowa and New Hampshire three weeks before voting begins in the 2016 presidential race, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll finds”. “Support Donald Trump. I paid for this through the super PAC”, before saying the number to call, and adding, “This call is not authorized by Donald Trump”. Ted Cruz needs to resolve questions about his eligibility to be president ahead of a possible showdown with Democrats. Trump’s 32%, meanwhile, is the strongest support any candidate has seen in any Monmouth New Hampshire poll so far this entire campaign cycle. Every time he gets to tell his fans that it’s McCain or McConnell who’s behind the attacks on eligibility rather than Trump, it makes it easier for populist voters to dismiss them out of hand.
“I’m Jared Taylor with American Renaissance”, Taylor says. The feud escalated Saturday as Trump lashed out at Cruz on multiple fronts before a packed auditorium in Iowa.
“You can’t have a nominee who is going to be subject to being thrown out as the nominee”, Trump said.
As I noted several times recently, I see very little reason not now to see Donald Trump as the favorite to win the GOP nomination.
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Carolyn Church, 69, who runs her own house cleaning business in Lexington, S.C., said the other candidates are trying to show they are more “solid” choices than the allegedly “flaky” Trump. John McCain, R-Ariz., the GOP nominee, was born in the Panama Canal Zone to parents who were American citizens.
