Trump on Cruz: ‘It’s not a settled matter’

Recently, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been raising the question of his rival Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president, implying that, because he was born in Canada, he is not a “natural-born citizen”.

Donald Trump is running scared right now. But Iowa has been tougher for him as recent polls have found Cruz ahead.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate wouldn’t wade into the debate over whether Texas Sen. Also, McConnell mentioned that the Senator Canadian’s birth and the fact that his father was born in Cuba aren’t actual issues that should make him ineligible. “If we win Iowa, I think we’re going to run the table”. “We’ll have a nominee, hopefully, by sometime in the spring”.

“Whether you like it or not, Ted has to figure it out because… you can’t have the person that gets the nomination be sued like Hillary might be sued”, Trump said during a campaign rally in Windham, N.H.

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

Cruz was responding to an implicit comparison to Donald Trump’s immigration policy that would end birthright citizenship, build a massive wall and deport more than 11 million people in a 18- to 24-month time period, costing between $100 and $200 billion, The Huffington Post reported. Laurence Tribe, a liberal professor who taught Cruz constitutional law at Harvard, is arguing that “the legal/constitutional issues around whether [Cruz’s] a natural-born citizen are… murky and unsettled”.

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Mary Brigid McManamon, professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School, said that Cruz “is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States.”

Trump stopped short Sunday of predicting victory in the Iowa caucuses, though he said if he wins in the state, he would “run the table” elsewhere in the Republican nominating contest.

“I really did not know that he was from Canada”. In that case, he’s not’.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he does not “intend” to deploy law enforcement officials who go door to door across the country to round up undocumented immigrants if he is elected president.

Trump also warned voters that legal challenges to Cruz’s eligibility – despite the views of most legal experts who say he is qualified to be commander in chief – could be tied up in court for years.

Regarding the motivation for Trump’s attacks, during his own swing through Iowa Cruz told reporters: “I understand that a lot of candidates in the field are dismayed”. “Three weeks ago, nearly every Republican candidate was attacking Donald Trump”.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at the Goldfield Old Schoolhouse in Goldfield, Iowa.