I would think that someone here could give us the official version of how it was that Senator Cruz suddenly realized he ought to renounce his Canadian citizenship. It might have been a revelation that came about after media outlets found documents that seemed to show that both his parents were supposedly eligible to vote in Canadian elections. This is something that is normally reserved for legal citizens.
Most people I have known do not like to give it up dual citizenship because there can be both perceived and real benefits. I registered for the draft while I was attending Western Washington University in Bellingham WA... about 15 miles from the border. One of my buddies told me his mother was originally from Canada so if he got drafted he was just going to go to Canada since he was a dual citizen. It seemed a little chicken s**t to me at the time.
Thanks for your additional input. I can imagine advantages to being a dual citizen. Winning a US presidential election wouldn’t be one of them.
I did a search and read the official version online. As the story goes, the Dallas Morning News looked into it, and published a story in August, 2013, in which it was stated that Cruz had Canadian citizenship. Why that led to a renunciation in ‘14 wasn’t stated. (You’d think he’d have cleared it up immediately.) But fwiw, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it.