Posted on 01/28/2016 2:26:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on Thursday that his candidate would be "happy" to debate Ted Cruz once the Texas senator gets a federal judge to rule him eligible to run for president.
"Once you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want, because that's the way the system works," Lewandowski said. "But, as it stands right now, we don't even know if Ted Cruz is legally eligible to run for president of the United States."
Trump and his supporters have argued that Cruz, who was born in Canada to a U.S. citizen, is not natural born and therefore ineligible to run for president under the Constitution.
Cruz challenged Trump to debate him one-on-one after Trump announced that he would not be attending the Fox News Republican presidential debate Thursday night because of objections to the presence of anchor Megyn Kelly and a statement Fox issued in response to his complaints. "What this is, is a publicity stunt by Senator Cruz who is continuing to fall in the polls in the state of Iowa," Lewandowski told Boston radio host Jeff Kuhner, before unleashing a slew of attacks at Cruz, arguing that he had used "dark money donors" through his super PAC to offer a donation to charity if Trump agreed to the debate.
"If Ted Cruz were able to disclose the loans that he's taken out from Goldman Sachs and Citi, then maybe he would use his own money for this, but instead he's using super PAC money which I don't even know if he can do legally," Lewandowski said, referring to loans Cruz took out during his 2012 run for Senate that he did not disclose in campaign filings. "And the bottom line is, you know what we've said to Ted Cruz, go into court, seek a declaratory judgment to find out if you're even legally eligible to run for president of the United States." In the interview, Lewandowski addressed his remark that Megyn Kelly had a "rough couple of days after that last debate" and "would hate to have her go through that again," which some at Fox News interpreted as a threat.
"That's not a threat. It's a factual statement," Lewandowski said. "And the bottom line, was, she did have a rough couple days after the debate because what she did during that first presidential debate was she made sure the debate was about her and not about the candidates who were actually on the stage."
Toward the end of the interview, Lewandowski took another shot at Cruz, this time over Cruz's criticism of Trump's support for eminent domain. Lewandowski said that eminent domain would be required to build the Keystone Pipeline, which Cruz supports. "The Keystone Pipeline, as you know, starts where Ted Cruz was born, in the country of Canada, and runs right down to where he lives now, in the state of Texas, and eminent domain is an issue that you know what unfortunately, sometimes you need to use it to get projects like that done," Lewandowski said.
Wow! Trump sure knows how to win!
He’s treating Cruz like he’s 2nd rate and irrelevant. And he is sticking Cruz with the same question everyone had with Obama, can this guy legally be president?
It’s a brilliant strategy.
Fox News is looking more and more like a bunch of punks. Fox is whining that Trump can’t choose the moderators. Well, maybe not, but he can choose whether he attends your show or not. And when he’s seen ignoring you, then he’s bigger than you. It makes him look larger than life.
The question MK asked Trump in that debate was a stupid low ball question to begin with. It wasn’t at the level of a presidential debate. And Trump is showing MK that she’s not as important as she thinks she is..
I can only imagine the hell he has in store for BS or HRC. If he can spank FNC he’s going to tear the dems a new and I can wait to see it!
"Once you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want, because that's the way the system works," Lewandowski said.LOL! Another lesson learned by the know it all "brilliant conservative constitutionalist".
"But, as it stands right now, we don't even know if Ted Cruz is legally eligible to run for president of the United States".Exactly what I've been saying since the Canadian anchor baby made the debate challenge.
Sorry, I donate to Cruz and he needs to rally and move on this. He can’t win with conservatives alone, he needs the other part of the Republican Party as well. Right now, a lot of them are saying its a problem.
The biggest issue I am worried about is the entire game is rigged against him right now. The senate, which took up a resolution to state that creepy freakazoid McCain is eligible refused to do so for Cruz. How many courts are ready to deny him this as well?
Senate scumbags refuse to stand by Ted Cruz:
RE: the department of justice less than 30 years ago was publishing that if you wanted to be president, “you must be born in the United States.”
Can you show us a link for that?
The Canal Zone was a US Territory at the time too.
3 current lawsuits
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When are the decisions going to be made? You know the old adage .... “justice delayed ...
Yeah, and Cruz paid that loan off with other peoples mooney.
Campaign funds. He is not out of the water on all of that yet.
All Cruz has to do is win the presidency, seal his record’s, flip the bird to any judges or lawsuit’s, and print a fake berf certificate! No brainer!
Needs repeating.
I agree with you! What are these Cruz-bots going to do if Cruz does win the nomination because nobody on our side challenges this, and then Hillary takes the presidency from him if wins. I suppose then the Cruz-bots would blame Trump for not going after Cruz about this!
Or would the Cruz-bots just rather have Cruz win the nomination, and maybe even win the election, and then have Hillary challenge it in court and have Cruz removed, or have this thrown into the house where the RINOs will elect Bush.
This is good, Trump is doing and saying the right things again, when no one else is! This needs to be resolved now!
RE: Trump knows full well that there is no mechanism for Cruz to obtain a ruling from a Federal Judge that he is eligible to run
Trump has the STANDING to file a lawsuit and he can d it.
STANDING -— the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party’s participation in the case.
Perhaps Trump is taking a wait and see attitude to see if Cruz is going anywhere. If he is, then he can file a lawsuit since he can demonstrate “sufficient connection to harm” in his campaign.
See Posts 58 and 95 in this thread of yours.
Senate scumbag McConnell was bought and paid for by Trump in his last re-election campaign. $50k IIRC, i.e. roughly 5 years worth of Trump Foundation donations to Veteran’s organizations.
Why would it be prudent to debate Ted Cruz?
Cruz is correct.
If that’s the case anyone can say they’re an American and not have to prove it.
That makes no sense.
Trump got smacked by a girl and ran away from those mean bullies at Fox. If he’s afraid for his own words to come back to him, he should go back to his biggest celebrity loser show.
Tuaua FAQ - We the People Project
I start there just because the legal stuff is dense.
And on the subject in general (not relevant under US law, but interesting from an international perspective, which is what happens when citizens of country have babies in another country) ...
Displaced in the D.R., by Rachel Nolan | Harper's Magazine | May 2015
How the Dominican Republic reversed "anchor baby" in their country.
Oh, I don’t think Mr. Trump is afraid to debate Senator Cruz. Trump and Cruz are not every far apart on positions and policies; the debate would have to center on who is the more able executive, and I think Mr. Trump is pretty darn strong on that issue!
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