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The Calgarian Candidate

by Josh Marshall
08.19.13 | 4:39 am

As I’ve written, Ted Cruz is definitely a ‘natural born’ American citizen and eligible to serve as president. That said, even though he’s now released his birth certificate, you have to wonder what kind of influences he was exposed to growing up in a primitive, post-colonial setting like Canada during the radical Trudeau regime.

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