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As Donald Trump once again raises questions about Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth and his eligibility to run for president, Cruz is keeping the gloves on. “But 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”.

Cruz was slightly less restrained on Twitter, responding with a “Happy Days” clip in which Fonzie jumped a shark during a waterskiing jaunt. Trump has ramped up his attacks on Cruz since the Texas senator sprinted ahead of the billionaire businessman in some opinion surveys in early-voting Iowa. He has renounced his Canadian citizenship. While 20% said they absolutely would vote for Trump for president, 77% said they would “definitely not” vote for him.

Legal scholars agree that Cruz meets the Constitution’s natural-born citizenship requirement, though it is untested in the courts.

The U.S. Constitution says presidential candidates have to be “natural-born citizens”. “It’s been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American citizen born overseas is a citizen by birth, a natural born citizen”.

Children of Americans born anywhere in the world are automatically American citizens – as opposed to naturalized citizens.

In the Post interview, Trump insisted that he was providing a candid assessment of his leading opponent rather than initiating a personal attack and reviving the so-called “birther” debate that he once led against President Obama.

The comments mark a reversal for Trump, who in September downplayed Cruz’s birthplace in an interview with ABC.

Business mogul Donald Trump, who bolstered birthers’ claims that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, suggested Monday that Cruz might not be eligible to be commander-in-chief.

“The politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were coming across the Rio Grande”, Cruz said.

“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. 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?”