Kelli Ward: McCain ‘More Critical of Cruz than Obama’

Republican front-runner Donald Trump said this week that rival candidate Ted Cruz may be ineligible to be president because he was born in Canada, a sentiment echoed by Sen.

“I don’t think it’s gotten any of them any mileage”, Carney said.

“It’s puzzling why Trump is not going after Cruz more directly, because Cruz is a bigger threat than Trump thinks he is”, said GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak.

“That’s different from being born on foreign soil”, he said on the radio. John McCain, who was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.

Now the wizard has pulled off this magic trick again, by running around asking “questions” about whether his closest Republican opponent, Ted Cruz, is really eligible to be president if he’s elected. And there was a precedent, he argued, since 1964 Republican candidate Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it, too, was a USA territory. He added, “I am not a Constitutional scholar on that, but I think it’s worth looking into”.

Cruz has dismissed the citizenship issue as as a “silly sideshow”.

Pastors in the Hawkeye State have previously expressed doubts about whether Rubio would adhere to socially conservative doctrine as president-particularly since Paul Singer, a NY billionaire who has funneled millions of dollars into promoting gay rights, announced he would back Rubio last fall.

Cruz made the connection Thursday afternoon when asked about the statement by another senator, John McCain, that he does not know if Cruz is eligible to become president.

Cruz has led Trump in the most recent batch of polling in Iowa. “People fall on both sides of the issue, I think it’s a legitimate question to raise”.

Lubetsky said he remembered one occasion at a border crossing where Cruz identified himself as a dual citizen, “because I pointed to him and said he was a dual citizen”.

“I think there is a question”, McCain explained in the interview.

He also offered Cruz his “free legal advice”. In other words, for the birth-certificate-centric Trump, anointing Ted might require the hiring of determined private detectives to uncover his mama’s missing natal documents.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally in Burlington, …

Trump is warning of a constitutional challenge by Democrats if Cruz is the Republican nominee. “Ted was certainly very confident that he was a natural-born citizen as determined in the U.S. Constitution”. But even if the more demanding 1790 law had remained in effect, Cruz would still be a natural born citizen…Under the law in effect when Cruz was born in 1970 (i.e., statutes applying to people born between 1952 and 1986), the requirement was that, at the time of birth, the American citizen parent had to have resided in the USA for ten years, including five years after the age of fourteen.

Grayson says “if his mother, who clearly worked in Canada for years and years, did so while becoming a Canadian citizen and taking an oath, which is how you do it in Canada, she lost her citizenship by US law, specifically Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act”.

In reality, as worded, Senator Cruz’s pithy tweet could have been interpreted as suggesting Trump’s campaign in general has “jumped the shark”, while implying nothing about birtherism aimed at Obama. John McCain’s birth in Panama, Mitt Romney’s father George Romney’s birth in Mexico and former Arizona Sen.