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Spokesman: ‘Senator Ted Cruz is a U.S. citizen by birth’
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/11/2013 | Byron York

Posted on 03/11/2013 9:54:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In the past few days, there has been renewed buzz on the Internet about the presidential eligibility of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz has only been in the Senate for about 60 days and does not appear to be behind any of the talk. But he has certainly been in the news in recent days, and in response to a request for comment, his spokesman, Sean Rushton, sent me this note:

Sen. Cruz is a U.S. citizen by birth, having been born in Calgary to an American-born mother. He is focused entirely on his new role in the Senate, and on working every day to represent Texas and defend conservative principles in the Senate.

Any talk about Cruz follows years of discussion about birthplace and presidential eligibility involving President Obama, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Marco Rubio. The bottom line in the case of Cruz, who was born in Canada in 1970, is that his father was an immigrant from Cuba and not a U.S. citizen at the time of young Cruz’s birth, but his mother was born and raised in the United States. The law in effect then, and now, made Ted Cruz a U.S. citizen at birth. Although the drafters of the Constitution did not define what they meant when they required an American president to be a “natural born citizen,” it is generally thought that “citizen by birth” is the best modern-day equivalent. On that basis, Cruz appears entirely eligible — if he ever chooses to pursue the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 113th; birthers; citizenship; cruz; naturalborncitizen; tedcruz
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1 posted on 03/11/2013 9:54:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s a great senator but its way too early to even think about the presidency anyway. I’ll cross the eligibility bridge when I get to it.


2 posted on 03/11/2013 9:57:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just stop!

Senator Ted Cruz is headed to be the Republican Leader of the US Senate for about 30 years.

Should he lower himself to be POTUS, he would be there for 4 or 8 years.

Do the math!

Let the man do the job at hand!


3 posted on 03/11/2013 9:59:33 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: SeekAndFind

If Obama was eligible to be POTUS with a US citizen mother and foreign national father and having Indonesian citizenship Cruz is eligible.


4 posted on 03/11/2013 10:01:33 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: SeekAndFind
Several threads on this topic if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:

Fox News Declares Ted Cruz Ineligible To Be POTUS Due To Birth In Canada [American Mother over 1050 posts on this one

Video: Sean Hannity Declares Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Eligible To Be President; Cruz Dodges

Ted Cruz draws presidential buzz, but is he eligible?

Vanity - Sen Ted Cruz is natural Born Citizen!!!

Is Ted Cruz eligible to be president?


5 posted on 03/11/2013 10:02:58 AM PDT by deport
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To: cripplecreek

HE’s not the one bringing it up all the time....others are....I am sure he’s trying to END the chatter about it with this announcement.


6 posted on 03/11/2013 10:03:57 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, then there is thousands of US citizens around the world who were ‘created’ by tourist and servicemen. Absurd.


7 posted on 03/11/2013 10:05:08 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: cripplecreek

The Senate has tried several times to cancel the Constitutionally defined requirement for President, and failed to do it since it violates the Constitutionally defined way to change the Constitution. Ted was not born in the US of A. He is a citizen by his mother’s citizenship (provided she had reached the age of and with so and so many years a citizen herself), but he is not an natural born citizen. McCain was not and of course little barry bastard boy is not either.


8 posted on 03/11/2013 10:09:08 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Graewoulf

Wisdom! So refreshing on these boirther threads ... and yes, I’m a birther too.


9 posted on 03/11/2013 10:09:59 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Ping

***This says Cruz’s father had not yet become a citizen when he was born in Canada. I had read that he had become one. But this case, from Cruz’s spokesman, is based on the mother being a natural born American citizen - and I believe, at least 18 years of age. All this is saying is that “natural born citizen” means a citizen at birth, as opposed to a citizen by naturalization. It also implies that the problem comes if your birth mother isn’t a citizen, the problem doesn’t come from being born on a soil other than American, and also implies that the father’s citizenship at time of your birth is not controlling...***

(But of course there are those who will dispute this view.)


10 posted on 03/11/2013 10:10:06 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes. But he is a “white” hispanic. Not qualified.


11 posted on 03/11/2013 10:10:15 AM PDT by BO Stinkss ( I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees)
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To: MHGinTN

Yes John McCain is a natural born Citizen, so are Cruz, Rubio, and Obama (if he was born in HI).


12 posted on 03/11/2013 10:11:28 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: Graewoulf
Just stop!

Senator Ted Cruz is headed to be the Republican Leader of the US Senate for about 30 years.

Should he lower himself to be POTUS, he would be there for 4 or 8 years.

Do the math!

Let the man do the job at hand!

You're wasting your breath.

I made the same point about Rand Paul....we need conservative Senators to stay around in order to enact change.

But folks around here need to push their flavor-of-the-month for president. It's evidence of how desperate conservatives are for a legitimate candidate to back.

Hopefully, it will work itself out by the mid-terms.

13 posted on 03/11/2013 10:14:59 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: txrangerette

So Winston Churchill could have been our President?


14 posted on 03/11/2013 10:16:02 AM PDT by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: SeekAndFind
it is generally thought that “citizen by birth” is the best modern-day equivalent.

Only by those that wish to subvert the Constitution, and those that can't seem to read plain English.

15 posted on 03/11/2013 10:16:21 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: MHGinTN

Yes he is a natural born citizen, IF, by that is meant “a citizen at birth as opposed to becoming a citizen later” and IF being born to an American citizen mother makes you a citizen, and IF being born on another soil is not the controlling factor but the citizenship of your mother is the controlling factor.

The only way he isn’t a natural born citizen is if everything Byron York writes here about what makes a natural born citizen, and what the words “natural born citizen” mean, is wrong.

If York is right, you are wrong.

I’m WAITING to find out. That was the point of his article, to lay claim to that. And Ted Cruz through his spokesman laid claim to it.

And your bombastic conclusions can’t stop me from WAITING, before JUMPING...


16 posted on 03/11/2013 10:17:47 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: Perdogg

Well, if Cruz is a natural born citizen then even if Obama was born in Kenya he would be eligible to be POTUS because his mother was born in the US.


17 posted on 03/11/2013 10:19:05 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe he was born an American citizen but hes not a NBC and hes not eligible to be POTUS

Cruz has nearly the same status that Obama has...

Obama(if he WAS born in Hawaii) has more...

If not they are the same...

American citizen Mom, non-American Dad, born in another country...

What are we trying to do here ???

Validate Obama ???

Way to go e-GOP...

The Democrats will win in 2014 over this junk...


18 posted on 03/11/2013 10:19:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: The Great RJ
If Obama was eligible to be POTUS

But he isn't and neither is Cruz.

In the end it won't matter we will get what they want us to have because the Constitution is now just @$$ wipe to these clowns.

19 posted on 03/11/2013 10:20:24 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

“So Winston Churchill could have been our President?”

Yes, his mother was born in the US.

Many people from popular tourist destinations like Cancun and Bangkok are also eligible.


20 posted on 03/11/2013 10:22:10 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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