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.
Precedent Obama has seemingly lowered the bar to simply being born a citizen, even if only on one’s mother’s side, so that any anchor baby and Winston Churchill is now eligible.
8 USC....is a law for Aliens.
If Trump thinks Cruz is eligible then why is he questioning his eligibility?
If you think those two statements mean the same thing, we can stop trying to come to an agreement.
They are. Sorry we can't come to an agreement but I seldom can agree with Trumpers where they guy is concerned.
Wusses out because he knows this absrub birther nonsense will never make it that far in the legal process. FAIL. Buck buck ba-gawk? Ba-gawk?
I just found this thread and have over 300 posts ahead of me to read and to enjoy just a bit too much. lol
I have to admit, Donald Trump is a great American!
No one has had the whatevers big enough to do what Trump has just done, nor done in the short time since his announcing his candidacy.
So, Who pray tell has Standing? it sounds like a joke. You know who has standing? So we can’t find out, cause no one has Standing? Does congress have standing? Can they ask for clarification? I’m serious who has standing?
The legal definition of standing isn't a secret. To have standing to sue a plaintiff needs to show that he suffered some form of injury that the court can redress and that the injury was caused by the plaintiff. So who would that be?
Any voter?
How so?
But JUST DAMN! I see way too many FReepers who can’t even agree that Ted’s a legal citizen.
No wonder there’s such immature arguing here. Ignorance seems overwhelming here sometimes.
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I don’t think anyone is saying he is not a citizen. But being a citizen does not make him automatically eligible for President. There is the additional requirement of being a natural-born / native-born citizen. This additional requirement is only for President.
All the churn is over what exactly what this additional requirement means...
We are all mistaken about a lot of things.
Speak for yourself.
“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.â€
Can you show us a link for that?”
I want to get some pictures first and look at some other items in the same place before risking it getting “disappeared”.
Unfortunately, the RNC sets the rules.
Whats wrong tRUMP? Scared?
Wow. That recent?
Where’s it from?
A voter who is voting for someone who is actually ineligible for office is harmed by losing their vote is my thoughts on that. They should have some kind of standing.
Hard to understand you people sucking up to Trump. He is a big liberal who is cashing in on the anger at Washington. Pushing all the right buttons.
Unless most of the Republicans are thrown out of the Senate and replaced with hardcore conservative, it won’t matter who is president.
You obviously have me confused with a else.
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