Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada on Sunday (January 10), raised questions about Ted Cruz’s eligibility to run for president.
“Ted Cruz has a real cloud hanging over his head. The question is: Is Ted Cruz, is he a natural born citizen,” Trump told the campaign rally crowd.
“I think like 14, 15 months ago he revoked it, but he was citizen of the United States, I believe, and canada simultaneously, how do you? What’s going on here? So he’s got to straighten these things out, and they asked him why didn’t you revoke your citizenship a long time, you know he was a United States senator and he is a citizen of Canada. Why didn’t you do it sooner?” Trump said.
The Republican presidential candidate is locked in a tight race with the Texas Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa.
As Cruz pulled ahead of the Republican pack in the key early-voting state of Iowa, Trump, who leads Republicans nationally, has stepped up aggressively questioning whether Cruz is a natural-born citizen and calling the senator’s Canadian birth a potential problem for the party.
Cruz is a U.S. citizen by birth because his mother was American, although he was born in Alberta, Canada.
Presidents must be “natural-born citizens” under the U.S. Constitution. (Reuters)
