Why experts say Ted Cruz is eligible for the presidency

“You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”. “We will build a wall that works and I’ll get Donald Trump to pay for it”, Cruz said in December.

Trump told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that Cruz’s Canadian birthplace and his holding a double passport was a “very precarious” issue that “a lot of people are talking about”. Although his father was born in Cuba, his mother was a U.S. citizen at the time, a fact legal scholars say meets the United States constitution’s requirement that presidents must be “natural-born citizens”.

Trump, however, has also flip-flopped on the issue, telling ABC News in September, “I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape”.

Trump’s crusade reached its zenith in 2011, when Obama felt obliged to publicly release his long-form birth certificate.

However, among those who find an optional Spanish menu upsetting, Trump is the most popular presidential candidate, with 36 percent of the anti-bilingual menus vote.

But those Republican presidential candidates are devoting significant time and resources to the state in a battle to beat expectations – and each other – in the GOP caucus. He renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014. Ted Cruz’s effort to run to the right of Trump on immigration.

Titled “Invasion”, the 60-second ad draws on remarks the USA senator from Texas made during the fourth GOP debate, when he discussed what he described as the overlooked impact of illegal immigration on American jobs.

Cruz responded to Trump on Twitter with a link to the iconic TV character Fonzie jumping over a shark in the TV show “Happy Days”. Donald Trump comes up often as well, as do retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. A new poll of New Hampshire voters sheds some light on both the passionate intensity of the billionaire’s support and its inability to rise to the level that would give him victory in a one-on-one contest with other leading candidates in the race. The most common explanation is that someone who is a US citizen at birth – with no need to go through the process of becoming a naturalized citizen – is a natural born citizen. “Cruz is not going to allow individuals to come back into the country legally”, said Lewandowski In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” Tuesday. John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone to US citizens. Since then, Trump has quieted his speculation about Obama’s birth, while still declining to accept Obama’s legitimacy.