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So it turns out that there may be a real argument that Ted Cruz isn’t ‘natural born’ and can’t be president. Not on some unknown document or hidden story, purely on the public facts that he was born in Canada. Here’s the story. To find out that a man who has repeatedly claimed to be at least 200 percent American may in fact fall short of the mark is a shattering revelation. It’s like having an investigator uncover evidence that Joe McCarthy held a secret membership in The Weavers Fan Club. Nothing is really as we thought.

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