Cruz on White House Eligibility: It’s Settled Law

He declined direct comment on Tuesday, responding to Trump with a dash of dismissive web humour: a Twitter link to a video clip of Fonzie from Happy Days jumping the shark. The image, as the Post says, has become a symbol of something that’s been overdone.

There have been recent signs of tension.

“That’s bad. I’m admonishing you for the press, get him the hell out of there!” “Just remember that… just remember”.

Earnest – who is President Barack Obama’s top spokesman – said that it’d be amusing for Republican voters to back the Canadian-born senator after some conservative conspiracy theorists questioned Obama’s own birthplace. He repeatedly said he is hearing chatter on the topic among voices on the right. Early previous year, Trump said in an interview that the issue could be a “serious hurdle” for Cruz.

Broward Republicans are using Jeb Bush and Palm Beach County Republicans are using Donald Trump to help raise money for their 2016 campaign efforts. The Supreme Court, though, has not issued a definitive ruling.

But the latest reversal comes as Cruz is seriously threatening Trump’s lead in Iowa and elsewhere – especially with evangelical voters critical to winning the Hawkeye State’s caucuses on Feburary 1st.

“He’s a friend of mine”.

“Then the other day I head for the first time, a nice guy, so I’m not going to mention it, but one of the candidates said, ‘And we’ll build a wall, ‘” said Trump.

Too bad the Constitutional framers didn’t precisely define “natural-born citizen” which is different from simply a USA citizen. Those born to US citizens are granted citizenship under USA law, regardless of where they were actually born.

The senator has contended that he is an American citizen based on that criteria – and he has released his birth certificate and renounced his Canadian citizenship since being elected to Capitol Hill in 2012. Most legal scholars argue that a natural-born citizen is one who does not have to be naturalized to obtain citizenship, but rather, one who is a citizen by birth.

“It’s a problem for him, and it’s a problem obviously for the Republicans”, Trump said during a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

The question circulates because Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on December 22, 1970, to his Delaware-born mother Eleanor Darragh and Cuban-born father.