Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz
Donald Trump during a rally in Indiana doubled down on his view that Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s been giving him a run in the polls and delegate counts for the presidency, isn’t an American-born citizen and is therefore ineligible to sk the high White House office.
“He was born in Canada folks, he was born in Canada,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks came shortly after Heidi Cruz referred to her husband as an immigrant, forcing his campaign to come out and clarify she meant he was the son of an immigrant parent.
“Ted is an immigrant,” she said over the weekend. “He is Hispanic. We can unify this party.”
Trump seized on those remarks and pressed his case of Cruz’s ineligibility.
“His wife just said ‘my husband is an immigrant,’” Trump said. “And I said, when I heard it, ‘That’s what I’ve been saying.’”
Trump said that if Cruz were to win the nomination, his path to victory against the Democratic nominee would be halted with an immediate lawsuit contesting his citizenship.
“I’ve had the biggest, the best lawyers in the world tell me, [he] can’t run,” Trump said, the Hill reported. “Now, the Democrats are sitting back with one of the best lawyers in the world. If Cruz ever got lucky – and he can’t – but if he ever got lucky and got the nomination, he will be sued immediately, he won’t be allowed to run.”
Trump also said during the Indiana rally Cruz couldn’t win, mathematically speaking, because he’s too far behind in the delegate count.
“Number one, he can’t win, he’s got no path to win,” Trump said, the Hill reported. “And if he had a path to win, which he doesn’t he has very few votes and he has very few delegates. But, I’ve been saying, he wasn’t born in this country.”
In April, a lawsuit challenging Cruz’s natural born citizen status, was tossed from a New Jersey court.
The judge in that case, which was brought by several state residents and a Catholic University law professor, wrote in his ruling, Red State reported: “The more persuasive legal analysis is that such a child, born of a citizen-father, citizen-mother, or both, is indeed a ‘natural born citizen’ within the contemplation of the Constitution.”
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