That is exactly what has bothered me about the whole situation. He is a well educated, brilliant law student. That he would say this means he is out for political gain and his personal ambition is more important to him than the Constitution which means he is not the constitutional conservative he is represented to be.
After Rubio and all the other RINOs I’ve seen in Florida and nationally, I was watching to see how Cruz would handle this specific situation to determine if he was in fact the real deal or something else. From his action here, it appears he is not real.
Cruz's view is the view of pretty much everybody in the entire legal world, including all significant conservative Constitutional foundations (Heritage Foundation, National Review, etc.) It is nothing novel.
The novel idea is that it takes birth on US soil plus two citizen parents to be a natural born citizen.
That doctrine almost never appeared between 1787 and 2008. On the few occasions when it did, it was slapped down by people who knew better.