“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem”, Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Tuesday.
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Trump said in a Wednesday interview on Fox News he wants Cruz to “get some kind of an order” from a court to block any potential lawsuit challenging his citizenship.
He added: “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way”. “But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport”.
This is not a new theme for Trump, who famously called into question whether President Obama was born in the United States, and a year ago posed the same question of Cruz.
Hold on. Legal scholars concur that the Canadian-born but mostly Texas-reared Cruz, battling Trump and others for the Republican presidential nomination, likely fulfills the constitutional imperative that the president be a “natural-born citizen”. Under U.S. law, anyone born to a U.S. citizen is granted citizenship no matter where the birth takes place.
The question circulates because Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on December 22, 1970, to his Delaware-born mother Eleanor Darragh and Cuban-born father.
Cruz, for his part, has made a point on the campaign trail to avoid attacking his Republican opponents directly, hoping to cast his candidacy in a positive light and project confidence in his standing in the polls.
After the Trump-fueled controversy over Obama’s birthplace, the question over Cruz’s was a natural one that’s already come up. But last September, Trump said, “I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape”.
Donald Trump feigned outrage Tuesday after an attendee at one of his rallies shouted that President Barack Obama is “a Muslim”.
Cruz responded to Trump on Twitter Tuesday night by linking to an infamous “Happy Days” episode where “Fonzie” jumps over a shark on waterskis. Pointing to Cruz’s father’s birth in Cuba during a campaign rally in Iowa – where Cruz is hoping to win over the powerful evangelical voter bloc – Trump implied he’s not sure about Cruz’s religious faith. He also was a Canadian citizen until he renounced that in 2014.
Trump has revived the issue at a key moment in the Republican primary, with the Iowa caucuses less than one month away and when Cruz has cemented his status as a threat to Trump.
The former senator from Pennsylvania also criticized Cruz for saying he would “carpet bomb” ISIS.
“If Hillary Clinton is elected president, the Supreme Court will rule that no individual American has any individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever”.
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“Then the other day I head for the first time, a nice guy, so I’m not going to mention it, but one of the candidates said, ‘And we’ll build a wall, ‘” said Trump. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Once the president did release the long-form version of his birth certificate, Trump boasted that he was “proud of myself because I’ve accomplished something nobody has been able to accomplish”. It was speculation that Obama was born outside the country, even though his mother was American, that fueled the so-called birther movement.
