Donald Trump Targets Ted Cruz [and it's helping Cruz]

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 10, 2016 | Heather Haddon and Janet Hook

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Donald Trump is taking aim at Republican presidential rival Sen. Ted Cruz, a tactical shift that could be risky on two fronts: It may have come too late, and the Texas senator might actually be benefiting from the attacks......

For Mr. Cruz, being under attack by other Republicans is a badge of honor, another backer said. "It's a quasi-endorsement of Cruz to the grass roots," said Saul Anuzis, former Michigan GOP chairman.

Polls show a growing number of Trump backers see Mr. Cruz as their second choice. Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler said that when the campaign began, polls showed that only 4% of Trump backers saw his boss as their second choice. A new poll by NBC/SurveyMonkey finds that number has risen to 39%.

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 66% of Trump voters said they would consider supporting Mr. Cruz -- far more than other major candidates....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Indeed. Water Boy, the Dauphin, Sweater Vest, Krispy, Huckleberry, Ron Paul, Jr. and Doc need to bow out gracefully.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Armor of God will do that for you.

[House Atreides]

Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, said it was important for Mr. Cruz’s citizenship issue to be fully aired now before it could potentially become an issue in the general election.

“We’re trying to help,” said Mr. Lewandowski, about their campaigns push to get a judge to weigh in on the citizenship question. “We’re recommending a court make a quick decision to get a declaratory judgment on this.”
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Sure Mr. Lewandowski, the nobility and purity of your intentions are stunning and shine out with goodness & decency. Yes, we believe you. /sarc

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If you can’t see the entire WSJ piece do this:

Copy the title, then paste and google it.

Then click on the WSJ link - it should give you a full view.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Trump, himself, says he’s doing this to help Cruz.

5:54 mark - but you should watch the entire 4 minute exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cXVxCrqPc

[zencycler]

Trump’s past attacks of other candidates were done in response to him being attached by them. Trump’s attacks on Cruz, however, are because Cruz is polling ahead of him in Iowa and gaining strength in other states.

That’s the difference, and why Trump’s attacks benefited him previously, but will not, against Cruz.

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

[Cowboy Bob]

Out of curiosity, who has the power to declare whether Cruz is eligible to run, or not? Is it Congress, the Supreme Court...or who?

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

[Yosemitest]

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain, August 22nd, 2015

... More, Trump has publicly defended the confiscation of private property for eminent domain, even when the use for which the property is confiscated is purely private in nature:

Trump consistently defended the use of eminent domain.
Interviewed by John Stossel on ABC News, he said:
"Cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city.
Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good."
Challenged by Stossel, he said
that eminent domain was necessary to build schools and roads.
But of course he just wanted to build a limousine parking lot.

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Wishful thinking from the GOP and their last best hope, Canuckistinian Ted Cruz.

[House Atreides]

Trump, himself, says he’s doing this to help Cruz.

5:54 mark - but you should watch the entire 4 minute exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cXVxCrqPc
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The NOBILITY and the SELFLESSNESS of this great man is awe-inspiring. He is to be worshipped and held in reverence. No man is his equal...in any aspect. /sarc

[exnavy]

By his own description trump is part of the problem. He has proudly stated that he bought politicians from both sides of the aisle in order to be profitable. We need a trump and soros free america.

[Yosemitest]

Our Founding Fathers did, back in 1790.



1st United States Congress, 21-26 Senators and 59-65 Representatives

As Hans von Spakovsky wrote in his Commentary "An Un-Naturally Born Non-Controversy":

... The Constitution, federal law, and the historical understanding of the Framers, as well as prior British legal traditions and law, all support this view.
In a recent article in the Harvard Law Review, two former U.S. Solicitor Generals, Paul Clement (who served under President George W. Bush) and Neal Katyal (who served under President Barack Obama) stated:

All the sources routinely used to interpret the Constitution confirm that the phrase “natural born Citizen” has a specific meaning:
namely, someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth
with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time.
And Congress has made equally clear from the time of the framing of the Constitution to the current day that,
subject to certain residency requirements on the parents,
someone born to a U.S. citizen parent generally becomes a U.S. citizen without regard to whether the birth takes place in Canada, the Canal Zone, or the continental United States.

Thus, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would not be eligible to run for president
because the Austrian native had to go through the naturalization process to become a U.S. citizen.

Certainly the Framers of the Constitution held this view of “natural born” citizen.
They had a deep understanding of British common law and applied its precepts, particularly as explained in Blackstone’s Commentaries, throughout the Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Alabama (1888) recognized that
“the interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is necessarily influenced by the fact that
its provisions are framed in the language of the English common law,
and are to be read in the light of its history.”

Senator Cruz meets all three qualifications in the Constitution to be the president of the United States
if the American people make that choice.

One of those precepts of British law was
that children born to British citizens anywhere in the world,
even outside the dominions of the British Empire,
were “natural born” citizens of the Empire
who owed their allegiance to the Crown.
This historical understanding is explained in great detail by the Supreme Court in a well-known 1898 case, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.

The First Congress, which included many of the Framers of the Constitution, codified this view of a natural born citizen.
A mere three years after the Constitution was drafted, they passed the Naturalization Act of 1790,
which specified that the children of U.S. citizens born
“out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens.”
The modern version of this Act is found at 8 U.S.C. §1401.
It contains a list of all individuals who are considered “nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.”
Paragraph (g) includes:

A person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien,
and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions
for a period or periods totaling not less than five years,
at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years. 

Ted Cruz was born in Canada in 1970;
his mother, who was a U.S. citizen by birth from Delaware, was in her 30s at the time.
She met Cruz’s father, who was born in Cuba, as a student at Rice University.
These facts show that
Cruz’s family background clearly meets the standard set out in the federal statute for being a natural born citizen who did not have to go through any naturalization process to become a citizen.;
That was also the case for Senator Barry Goldwater, who was born in Arizona before it became a state,
and Governor George Romney, who was born in Mexico.

The bottom line is that Senator Cruz meets all three qualifications in the Constitution to be the president of the United States if the American people make that choice.
The same is true of my wife, who was born in Manila.
Her father, whose family had been in America since shortly after the Pilgrims got to Massachusetts,
was temporarily working abroad for an American company—just like Ted Cruz’s father.

My wife is not likely to run for president,
but there is no question that she—like Ted Cruz, Barry Goldwater, George Romney, and John McCain—is eligible to be president
and to swear an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”


Hans A. von Spakovsky is a a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department lawyer. 
He is the coauthor of “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk”(Encounter 2012)
and  “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department” (HarperCollins/Broadside 2014).


The Naturalization Act of 1790, let's read it , too ( even though it DOES NOT APPLY) !
United States Congress, "An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" (March 26, 1790).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That any Alien being a free white person,
who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,
may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any common law Court of record in any one of the States
wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least,
and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court  that
he is a person of good character,
and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law
to support the Constitution of the United States,
which Oath or Affirmation such Court shall administer,
and the Clerk of such Court shall record such Application, and the proceedings thereon;
and thereupon such person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. 


And the children of such person so naturalized,
dwelling within the United States,
being under the age of twenty one years at the time of such naturalization,
shall also be considered as citizens of the United States. 

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States,
shall be considered as natural born Citizens: 
Provided, that
the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: 
Provided also, that
no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid,
except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m glad to hear that none of you Cruz supporters use anything that was built or created using eminent domain.

I think that is a great moral stand and I respect it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Duly noted by the slavish flashing neon” Trump advertisements posted above (duplicated on so many threads).

[DoughtyOne]