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.
I LOVE Ted Cruz.
Who couldn’t love a politician who’s rejected his birth country?
(Btw I wanna be president of Iceland.)
What a case of phallocephally with rectocranial inversion and santorumedema. Trump made a coherent case that Cruz was likely a natural born Canadian.
His momma was eligible to vote as a Canadian citizen and become a Canadian citizen so that her baby-daddy could become a naturalized Canadian citizen.
I cannot believe this intolerant fascist brute supposedly went to Harvard Law and did not learn that you cannot be a Canadian citizen until 18 months before running for the Presidency of the United States.
Turns out that this is false. The Constitution did not make children born abroad citizens – that’s why the Congress had to specify that in a law in the first place – and the law they passed did not make all children born abroad to an American citizens. That law provided that If a child was born abroad to an American Woman and a man who had never resided in the U.S., that that child was NOT a citizen. This result would have been impossible, if the Constitution – by its terms-- intended that any child born abroad to an American citizen was a natural born citizen.
Why would the result of such a law be impossible? Because it would obviously be unConstitutional to exclude a child who was natural born under the Constitution’s definition from the benefits of such a law Since a child born in the United States to a woman citizen and a foreigner who was simply a traveler passing through but never resided her would be natural born and the law barred a child born abroad to a woman American citizen and a foreigner who never resided in her, it is clear that the Congress understood that being born abroad meant you were not natural born.
Cruz having to respond to this undermines his ability to talk about the issues he’d like to talk about, i.e. he’s playing on Trump’s turf and not his.
Also, just being forced to talk about the open question of his citizenship has to hurt him with his base.
Any way I see it, Trump wins this round against Cruz.