Schoolmate: Cruz checked on citizenship issue since childhood

And they only have themselves to blame. It could be interpreted to apply to all who are citizens at birth, rather than those required to go through a naturalization proceeding to attain citizenship.

The episode demonstrated a developing dynamic in the Republican race: Cruz doesn’t want a fight with Trump, but Trump is spoiling for one himself.

Perhaps most notable among these politicians was John McCain, who gave the issue of Cruz’s Canadian birth new life last night when he said that he wasn’t sure if the Texan senator is eligible to run for president. “It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision”. Ted Cruz’s sanctimonious position on NSA spying. Roger Stone, Trump’s former adviser and the founder of a pro-Trump super PAC, says that Trump is a homebody. Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy (a Cruz supporter who also cites non-Cruz supporters) delves deeper into the law at National Review:The Constitution’s invocation of “natural born citizen” incorporates this principle of citizenship derived from parentage. “A lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport”, Trump told the Washington Post.

That’s because, first, Obama was not (and say it with us now) born in Kenya. In New Hampshire he’s in second place, 13 points behind Trump, barely leading Cruz and Chris Christie. That added legitimacy to questions from Cruz rival Donald Trump, the most prominent “birther” to question Barack Obama’s heritage and eligibility.

As Katyal and Clement note, that evidence is “particularly persuasive because so numerous framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress. That is particularly true in this instance, as eight of the 11 members of the committee that proposed the natural-born eligibility requirement to the Convention served in the First Congress and none objected to a definition of “natural-born citizen” that included persons born overseas to citizen parents”.

In a 2013 NPR interview, Cruz said that once his student visa expired, he was granted political asylum in the US and obtained a green card. Cruz cited Barry Goldwater, George Romney and John McCain as examples of presidential candidates who were born outside the country.

“They’re going to hear it from people like me”, said King, who has endorsed Cruz in the early caucus state.

Ted Cruz is doing his best to avoid Donald Trump’s birther-style attacks, but it’s not easy when you’re on a bus tour with a pack of reporters questioning you about it every chance they get.

“I think there is a question”.

Though McCain has been in elected office for over 30 years and ran for the office of President, he told host Merrill, “I am not a Constitutional scholar on that, but I think it’s worth looking into”.

“I think his normal routine was to identify himself as an American”, he said. His mother, Eleanor, is from DE, while his father, Rafael, is a Cuban who became a US citizen in 2005.

This was a classic case of “too little too late”, it miserably failed to alleviate the concerns of millions of Americans that Obama was born in Africa, and ineligible to be president. But he then took the necessary steps to renounce his Canadian citizenship and officially ceased to be a Canadian citizen on May 14, 2014. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments — either by the same reader or different readers.