“Cruz was an American citizen from birth. I never said otherwise.
He was never naturalized. He didn’t need to be naturalized. Only a non-citizen can be naturalized.”
So are you saying that even if Cruz had lived in Canada all his life, and never set food in the U.S. then he would still be a “natural born citizen” and eligible to run for U.S. president under the constitution, even though he had Canadian citizenship and his father was a Cuban citizen at the time of Cruz’s birth?
Does this mean that you think Obama is a natural born citizen, regardless of whether or not he has a birth certificate showing he was born in the USA?
The Constitution includes a 14-year residency requirement. So, yes, he'd be natural born, but, no, he wouldn't be eligible to run for president, at least until fourteen years had elapsed.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
If Cruz never set foot in the U.S., he would not be eligible to be President. Read the Constitution.