Donald Trump goads Canadian-born Cruz on his eligibility to run

In 2008, the Senate passed a resolution declaring Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, a natural born citizen.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump brought the subject to the forefront this week, after he insinuated in a Washington Post interview that Cruz’s birth in Canada would be a “precarious” legal issue for Republicans if they nominated him. Grayson would try to argue that both parents of Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, had to be American citizens for Cruz to be considered a “natural born” citizen under the Constitution. He renounced his dual Canadian citizenship in 2014.

Wang’s argument is that based on recent electoral history and where Trump stands in polling now, the real estate billionaire actually has a very good chance at being the Republican nominee. Only Canadian citizens are eligible to vote in that country. The document includes that spelling of Rafael Cruz’s first name.

But when Luntz asked the focus group whether they think Trump is going to win the Iowa caucuses, only two participants raised their hands.

Mr. Trump has started 2016 with his first advertisement campaign that trumped up his promise of stopping the entry of Muslims to the U.S, which the polls suggested resonated well even with the Democratic voters. “The internet has all sorts of fevered swamp theories”. His mother was and remains an American citizen. “I told my sister, who lives in NY, and she said we’d better go when the doors opened”.

It’s much the same for Trump, who is showing no signs of slowing down after leading most national preference polls since the summer.

Back in 2013, Trump said that Cruz was “perhaps not” eligible to run for president.

“Despite Sen[ator] Cruz’s repeated statements that the legal/constitutional issues around whether he’s a natural-born citizen are clear and settled”, he told the Guardian by email, “the truth is that they’re murky and unsettled”. I’m reminded of something Machiavelli didn’t say but should have: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Now he says he’s against it. He used to be for a 200 percent increases in green cards, doubling them; now he says he wants none.

In their public remarks, Trump and Cruz have been circling each other for weeks.

Donald Trump continued his tirade against the Clintons Sunday, recalling old scandals and referring to former President Bill Clinton as “an abuser”.

You’d think McCain might be sympathetic to Cruz’s situation, but did I mention that what goes around comes around?

The victor will face the Democrats’ nominee in the November general election.

“We can’t have somebody who will be immediately sued by the Democrats”, said Trump.

That feeling is echoed by party officials across the country, who acknowledged they have few tools to stop Cruz or Trump. Cruz and Marco Rubio are fighting for the favor of numerous same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the most attentive Republicans say they can’t make up their minds less than four weeks before voting begins.

Trump added that “I don’t want to win this way, I want to win fair and square” but that Cruz should nonetheless seek a declaratory statement from a judge to clarify his eligibility.

“I like what Trump is doing”, she said. “He’s got to have this thing worked out”.

Despite that infighting, there is little evidence of widespread alarm from establishment Republican leaders and their well-funded supporters about Trump and Cruz. You know what? I think I’m going to win. The Constitution does not define what “natural born” means, but the expert consensus is that a person only has to be a U.S. citizen at birth to meet that threshold.