Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday rejected GOP rival Donald Trump’s attacks on his eligibility to run for President, suggesting that the real estate mogul was feeling a bit “rattled” over Cruz’s surge in the polls.
“It starts to suggest maybe he’s feeling a little rattled,” Cruz said in an interview with NH1, a New Hampshire TV station. “Four weeks ago, just about every Republican candidate in the race was attacking Donald Trump. Today, just about every Republican candidate in the race is attacking me. That starts to suggest that maybe something has changed in the race.”
Cruz has surpassed Trump in some recent polls, prompting the senator to declare that the 2016 contest has become a two way race “between me and Donald Trump.”
Trump renewed questions about Cruz’s eligibility to run for the presidency in recent days, given that he was born in Canada to an American mother. Cruz dismissed those doubts about his eligibility in the NH1 interview.
“Well listen as a legal matter, the question is quite straightforward — which is it has been clear under the constitution and federal law since the very first days of this nation that the child born abroad is a natural born citizen,” Cruz said.
Cruz tied Trump’s criticisms of Cruz’s eligibility to run for President to a Harvard law professor whom Cruz said was a Hillary Clinton supporter.
