Posted on 07/19/2021 6:59:15 AM PDT by conservative98
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused Sen. Ted Cruz of election fraud, described him as “very unstable,” accused his father of aiding in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his insulted his wife. For all his embarrassment, Cruz (and the rest of the GOP field) got crushed by Trump in the primary, and then he shamelessly groveled and worked to get the man who called his wife ugly elected to the presidency.
That, apparently, is Ted Cruz’s idea of “fun.”
Cruz was asked in a Thursday interview whether he was thinking about another run for president and laughed. “Well, sure. I’m certainly looking at it,” Cruz told Newsmax.
“I’ll tell you, 2016 was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life,” Cruz added. “We came incredibly close, we had an incredible grassroots army.”
Cruz did not, in fact, come “incredibly close.” Trump won nearly twice as many votes as Cruz did, and effectively wrapped up the race by mid-March, though Cruz continued to drag it into May and even, albeit briefly, into the convention. Ultimately, Cruz won fewer than a dozen Republican primaries; Trump won 41.
After Trump became president, Cruz went on a charm offensive to win back the support of his biggest presidential rival, and it worked: during one rally for Cruz’s re-election to Senate in 2018, Trump gave the senator formerly known as “Lyin’ Ted” a new moniker: “Beautiful Ted.” Cruz, in turn, was a main booster of the evidence-free effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome, and he ultimately voted to reject certification of the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania after a pro-Trump mob stormed the halls of Congress.
If Cruz wants to take another shot at becoming president, he may once again have to go up against Trump
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I like Ted Cruz, but no. I will take DeSantis or Trump over him every time.
Why would anyone want a Supreme Court Justice that thinks Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are natural born citizens eligible to be President?
If he is, they are.
To paraphrase Ordell Robbie, you can’t trust Ted Cruz, but you can always trust Ted Cruz to be Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz understands what Trump was doing with the insults. Trump induced Ted to illustrate why he would not be suited for the Presidency. Ted showed by his reaction that he would be unable to deal with the Democrats. That exchange which disgusted me when I heard DJT turned me from a Ted fan to Trump all the way when Ted fell apart.
YOU say he voted for Hillary and told people to vote for Hillary.
That was YOUR conclusion.
YOU disregard the other remark.
2024. Yep, I even went and looked it to be sure and then
typed the wrong date in. Thanks for the correction.
Ted belongs on the Supreme Court not in The White House.
“All children born abroad have a file describing how and when they got their citizenship, we need to see Ted’s.”
DOESN’T MATTER! He was BORN in Canada!
Last I checked, Canada, was a FOREIGN country.
It’s NOT about “citizenship”. It’s about the constitutional requirements for the office of president and vice president.
“Natural born citizen” a status at the moment of your birth.
Born in the country (USA) to TWO US citizen parentS.
That’s why Obama had those FAKE birth certificates from Hawaii, because he was really born in Kenya.
But, NOBODY CARES! To hell with the constitution, to hell with fair elections, to hell with different sexes (NOT GENDERS), to hell with faith and houses of worship, to hell with right and wrong.
Why bother, nobody cares.
Definitely want to see Cruz run again.
Ridiculous article. Cruz was definitely #2 in a field of sixteen.
Cruz is a wonderful Senator but will not run for President again. He has no support.. Texas went Red withTrump and is still withTrump.
He is loved by Texans and should retire enjoying life.
I supported him in the early rounds against Trump but will be a Trumper from the start this time around.
Obama could have been born in Hawaii and he is still not a natural born citizen because his foreign Kenyan British subject father made him a Kenyan/British subject at birth.
Natural born citizens are naturally citizens because they could not possibly be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Anyone born with more than one nationality is not naturally an American.
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I am just curious when Ted’s mom actually filed for Ted’s citizenship.
I don’t think it was until he was in high school and needed a passport for a school trip.
Not eligible, Cubans born in Canada are not natural born citizens.
Democrats may elect ineligible candidates, but Republicans will have to wait until all of us who know what it means to die before they can.
Ted Cruz was born in Canada. His mother was a U.S. citizen. His father, a Cuban, was not. Under U.S. law, the fact that Cruz was born to a U.S. citizen mother makes him a citizen from birth. In other words, he is a “natural born citizen” (as opposed to a naturalized citizen) and is constitutionally eligible.
Courts ruled on this allegation.
It is incorrect. He is eligible. The fact that his American parents were working in Canada at his birth does not make him ineligible.
His father did not become US citizen until 2005.
Ted Cruz was still a Canadian citizen until 2014.
Me too.
That and some other dead giveaways.
We have so many real enemies, why do some FReepers let the Left pick our fights for us?
Cruz has been a very solid Trump supporter. The Left is obviously trying to stir up divisions between Trump and his allies by picking at old wounds.
FReepers who pile on to this sort of agitation are just stupid.
It reminds me of the old three stooges line “Hey, let’s you and him fight!”
And corrects have ruled against your view that this disqualified him to run for President.
Courts have ruled. . .
Citizen at birth was Hamliton’s suggested language and was rejected as insufficient.
Natural born citizen was chosen as the strictest standard for excluding the admission of foreign influence on the office.
Only those who are naturally citizens because they could not be anything else are natural born citizens.
Anyone born with more than ONE nationality is NOT naturally an American.
I know people are still made because he was a bit slow to joining Team Trump, but Trump did, insanely, imply his father killed JFK, which was comical lunacy.
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