Rand Paul: Ted Cruz ‘natural-born Canadian’

However, the issue of whether that counts as being a “natural born citizen” has come to the forefront since Trump – Cruz’s chief 2016 rival – began questioning it on the campaign trail.

GOP nomination hopeful Ted Cruz-a man only mildly less scary that Donald Trump-doesn’t deny that he was born in Calgary.

“Is he a natural-born citizen?” he asked several thousand people gathered in a ballroom.

Trump has said that Cruz should go to court and seek a judgment on whether he can be president, an assertion he stated again on Monday. “Maybe, but I think the courts will have to decide it, because it’s never really been decided”. The Supreme Court has never taken up the issue of whether American citizens born overseas are eligible to be president.

Rand Paul says the Supreme Court might have to weigh in on Ted Cruz’s presidential eligibility. By law, Cruz was a US citizen at birth, because his mother is American.

It has led others to question Cruz’s eligibility, including Sen.

Paul was echoing attacks started by GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who has attacked the Texas senator over his citizenship status as Cruz has drawn closer to the billionaire businessman in the polls and overtaken him in Iowa. “Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was territory when he ran in 1964”, said McCain in a Phoenix radio interview on the Chris Merrill Show last Wednesday.

“Cruz is a natural-born Canadian”, Paul said.

In September, Public Policy Polling found that only 28 percent of Cruz supporters believed that Obama was born in the US, while 62 percent of them claimed Cruz was American-born.

Back in 2008 when McCain was running for president, McCaskill introduced legislation to declare citizens like McCain who were born to citizens serving in the USA military overseas “natural born citizens”, which is a constitutional requirement to be president.

“That’s different than being born on foreign soil”, he said. Cruz brushed off Trump’s initial comments. She was an American citizen by birth.