“We don’t have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America”, Cruz told Tapper.
Trump went on to say “nobody knows” if Cruz would be allowed to become president.
At his Saturday night rally in Clear Lake, Trump protested that he only wanted Cruz to legally confirm his right to run.
Back in 2008, a resolution passed by the Senate declared John Mc Cain a “natural born citizen”, even though he was born on a USA military base in the Panama Canal Zone, but to American parents.
Speaking to radio host Howie Carr, Cruz continued the attacks, subtlety raising questions about Trump’s values. “Canadians are allowed to take foreign citizenship while keeping their Canadian citizenship”. You can’t have a nominee who’s going to be subject to be thrown out as the nominee. The document includes that spelling of Rafael Cruz’s first name.
“The Internet has all sorts of fevered swamp theories”, he said. “My mom was born in Wilmington, Delaware”. His mother was and remains an American citizen.
It strikes us as more than a little hypocritical that the candidate most eager to deny birthplace citizenship to others enjoyed that same status his entire adult life. Trump was among those who questioned Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president because his father was from Kenya and has questioned whether the president actually was born in Hawaii.
“I would say Hillary would know well how to identify Democrats”.
“There are certain requirements to be president, and I don’t care who it is, they have to prove that they are eligible to become president”, another participant added. He also draws more support than other Republicans among liberal-leaning independents, and he’s maintained a stranglehold over the GOP nomination.
“So what happens is I was watching Laurence Tribe of Harvard yesterday, who’s a constitutional expert; one of the true experts”.
In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press“, he said: “From Ted’s standpoint and from the party’s standpoint, he has to solve this problem”.
Trump, though, said he doesn’t like the direction the league is going in. Because the Democrats will sue him if he’s the nominee. “There’s no like, ‘he did a great job, ‘” he said.
A new Fox News poll has him beating Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election, 47-44 percent.
Trump said he thinks Cruz should get the Supreme Court to rule on the matter. And I always say the wall, we’re going to build the wall. “They got to work it out….”
Both Mr. Trump and Cruz are anti-establishment Republicans. Is he a natural-born citizen?
The courts would probably side with Cruz, since historical records indicate that the phrase “natural born” was meant to apply to anyone who did not go through a naturalization process.