[conservativejoy]

UPDATE: In response to this question, a number of Twitter followers have claimed that Cruz is not a natural born U.S. citizen because his mother “renounced” her U.S. citizenship while living in Canada when Cruz was born. This rumor was apparently started by Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, who told the press that Cruz’s mother “may have elected to give up her U.S. citizenship.”

The Cruz campaign says that is categorically false. “She did not renounce her U.S. citizenship,” says Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler. “She was born an American citizen in Delaware. She never had Canadian citizenship. Just like Ted, she has never breathed a single breath on this earth when she was not an American citizen.”

[Sacajaweau]

I’m not sure he knows his mothers situation back then....he didn’t even know his own situation.

[sitetest]

As usual, lies from the left. And repeated by liars on FR.

[AustinBill]

That is good news. The only potential wrinkle would have been if that "report" were true. With an American mother who was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth Cruz is on the exact same legal footing as John McCain. Since McCain was eligible I don't see how any court would not rule the same for Cruz.

This does raise an interesting question of why Obama fought so hard against releasing his own Hawaiian "birth certificate". By this same reason as long as his mother was an American citizen at the time of his birth it would not matter if her were in fact born in Kenya, as many have believed.