Cruz downplays Trump raising concerns over Canadian birth

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to the crowd while speaking at a campaign stop in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015.

Trump first unleashed a verbal assault on Cruz in December at an event in Des Moines where he questioned Cruz’s evangelical faith.

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970 while his parents were working in the oil business there.

“She says OK, we’ve got to cut our greenhouse gas emissions because we don’t want to burn up the planet for our kids and grandkids, how in the wide work could you create more new businesses and more good jobs than by changing the way you produce and consume energy and other local resources?”

The return to so-called “birtherism” is nothing new for the real estate mogul, who’s now atop the polls for the Republican nomination.

It’s the closest Trump has come to opening a “birther”-style attack on Cruz, who was born in Canada with dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship”.

While all GOP presidential hopefuls have been touting their conservative credentials, Trump also seemed to have the edge among “very conservative” voters, 35 percent of whom said they back the former “Apprentice” star, The Hill noted.

In The Post’s exhaustive look at the exhausting first year of the 2016 cycle, an unexpected person comes to Donald Trump’s defense. He says particular kinds of things. “First the Supreme Court rewrote federal law, ignored the text of Obamacare, in order to rewrite that statute and force that failed policy, that failed law, on millions of Americans”. McCain was born in the then U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone.

The refrain has become a staple on the stump and gives Clinton the opportunity to herald President Barack Obama’s plan to push executive actions on guns Tuesday. And some questioned George Romney’s eligibility to run in 1968, because he was born in Mexico. She cited 90 people being killed daily on average by guns in the U.S.

Trump has long flirted with “birtherism”, questioning Obama’s love of country and legal claim to the presidency. I have great respect for him…. certainly it’s a stumbling block and he’s going to have to have it solved before he goes too far, ‘ Trump said, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Cruz’s ascent in Iowa in the last two months, eclipsing Trump, punctured the billionaire developer’s aura of invincibility. “If you know and when we all studied our history lessons, you are supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. It’s an additional hurdle that he has”, Trump said.

Trump insisted that he wasn’t attacking Cruz, merely pointing out an issue Cruz needs to address.