Donald Trump: Ted Cruz’s citizenship could ‘be a big problem’

Once the president did release the long-form version of his birth certificate, Trump boasted that he was “proud of myself because I’ve accomplished something nobody has been able to accomplish”.

But Trump has been ratcheting up his attacks on Cruz in recent weeks. Trump said. “You have to get rid of them first, I like one thing at a time”.

Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post that Republican voters should think twice before voting for Cruz, who could face challenges to his eligibility to serve as president given that he was born in Canada, and not the United States. And Cruz, as even casual followers of the race know at this point, was born in Canada.

That conclusion about what the drafters meant is based partly on a law passed in 1790 by the first Congress, providing that the children of USA citizens born outside the country “shall be considered as natural born citizens”.

Trump is clearly toying with a dead-horse issue. Yet Obama has been harassed with rumors and heckled with accusations for years, while Cruz’s admitted birthplace in a Non-Exceptional Nation has never been an issue… until now. He said, “What the American people are interested in is not bickering and back and forth”.

Cruz dismissed the comments on Tuesday with a lighthearted tweet implying Trump’s remarks were far-fetched. And it was just the latest barb he’s leveled against the Texas senator, telling a crowd last week that, “In all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, okay?” “But Congress eliminated that differential treatment of citizen mothers and fathers before any of the potential candidates in the current presidential election were born”. But he backed off quickly, especially when the right-wing commentators took Cruz’s side.

More than four in ten Republican voters in California (43%) say they would be dissatisfied or upset were Trump to become their party’s nominee, while only about half as many say this about Cruz (21%) or Rubio (24%).

Cruz responded to Trump on Twitter with a link to the iconic TV character Fonzie jumping over a shark in the TV show “Happy Days”.

In an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post, Trump said Cruz’s Canadian birthplace and previously holding a double passport was “very precarious”.

“I actually think he was honest”, Trump said on Fox. “John Sidney McCain, III, is a “natural born Citizen” under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States”, it read. When asked about the anti-Muslim rhetoric of her opponents, Clinton said she found remarks from Republican presidential candidates “deeply distressing”.