Cruz says McCain’s criticizing him because he backs Rubio

“I don’t know the answer to that”, said McCain on the Chris Merrill Show on KFYI550 on Wednesday of Cruz’s eligibility. “There’s a ton of voters who are a little uncomfortable with voting for someone outside of the country”, she said, “and the fact that Sen”. Cruz has gone out of his way to alienate many of his Senate colleagues, and McCain has called him and his allies “wacko birds”. McCain added he thinks Cruz should try to get ahead of these eligibility issues, though without access to a time machine, how he’d go about doing this is a bit of a mystery.

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.

The Constitution, Article II, Section I, states one must be a “natural born citizen” to become president. “I think of myself as a part of this community and you know, first day of presidency, you decide to deport, you know, people like myself, you know, it’s just very hard to process it”. Following a 2013 investigation by the Dallas Morning News examining Cruz’s citizenship, the Texas senator formally renounced his Canadian citizenship the following year.

MCCAIN: I do not know the answer to that [whether Cruz is qualified].

Unfazed, Cruz playfully responded to Trump with a tweet featuring a clip from the TV show “Happy Days” with iconic character Fonzie jumping a shark.

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. Ah well. Anyway, Coulter isn’t the only Trump spokesperson who’s engaged in dutiful hedging and backtracking in order to lend credence to Trump’s unsubtle conspiracy amplification: Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, Pierson blamed Cruz for the questions about his birthplace.

Immigration has become a hot-button issue not only in the campaign generally but particularly for the Republicans and for Ted Cruz, a Cuban-American senator from Texas. “Ted was certainly very confident that he was a natural-born citizen as determined in the U.S. Constitution”.

Trump is a “bum”, said Tim Bever, 65, who went on Wednesday to see Cruz at a town hall event in Spencer.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t say whether she thought Cruz was a “naturally-born” citizen when asked about it at her weekly press conference. For years, the Republican Party had nothing but patronizing nods and winks for the unhinged birthers – Trump included – who claimed, despite definitive proof to the contrary, that President Obama was born in some other country. It is, Cruz, a former Supreme Court clerk, argues, “settled law that the child of a US citizen born overseas is a natural born citizen”. Trump said a week ago at a campaign rally. Had Obama been born a year later, it wouldn’t have mattered whether that birth took place in Hawaii, Kenya, Indonesia, or anywhere else.

Cruz has defended himself by pointing to Arizona Sen.