Posted on 01/15/2016 5:14:48 AM PST by GonzoII
A quarter of Republicans think White House hopeful Ted Cruz is disqualified to serve as U.S. president because he was born in Canada to an American mother, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.Republican voters nearly mirror independents and the broader electorate in their belief that Cruz cannot hold the White House, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified.
Cruz, a U.S. Senator from Texas who was born to a U.S. citizen mother and Cuban father in Calgary, Alberta, has brushed aside the attacks about his eligibility as pure politics. But the questions could hamper his ability to rally the broad Republican support he would need to win the party's nomination to run for the presidency in November's election.
Only 47 percent of all voters surveyed responded that they thought Cruz is qualified to be president with regard to his citizenship, with 26 percent saying they were not sure.
The poll was taken from Jan. 7 to Jan. 14, before questions about Cruz's eligibility became one of the most heated moments of Thursday night's Republican primary debate.
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-Picking Supreme Court nominees? Are you kidding?-
Let me first come clean.
I think Trump is a carnival barker, but I love that he is pushing the Republicans right.
I think that Cruz is Constitutional ineligible. I will still vote Cruz. I believe in the Constitution, but we are attempting to fight according to the Marquess of Queensberry rules while the democrats are full MMA.
Let me reiterate: Why has this question not been in every debate questionnaire? Why is this subject not brought up in every Freeper thread? Who would I trust to remain conservative after the Presidential election?
Trump didn't use the deport word for the non criminals until the last week in July. Before that he was talking about an in-place amnesty with maybe a citizenship amnesty. After that he mentions deportations for everybody but in the next breath he says that he wants to "expedite" them back, which would be a touch back amnesty.
Given his track record, President Trump will probably go liberal after he is inaugurated, embracing and then expanding the Obama agenda but using conservative rhetoric to sell it--the way Richard Nixon embraced and expanded the Great Society after he took office in 1969. However, I hope I'm wrong.
Reuters. Yawn.
How so? If the court took both cases simultaneously (it wouldn't, but let's pretend), Obama comes in with a BC from a US state (plus a citizen mother), and Cruz walks in with a BC from Canada, and a citizen mother.
It's trivial (and probably correct) to come out with different answers for the two of them, just on the basis of not citizen of a state at birth (Cruz) vs. citizen of a state at birth (Obama).
I'm not saying Obama was in fact born in a state, just that this is how the court can come to opposite conclusions.
It’s Reuters guys.
The only person with standing is an opponent in the election contest.
What was the poll numbers for 0, given the question of his mom being American, his dad being British/Kenyan, and 0 being born in Kenya?
Who was it that got McCain his Congressional resolution re: his citizenship?
Well, that daily news rag —is— published in noo yawk....
Without rigorous testing of this proposition, I think there is a consensus, and it runs in Cruz's favor. I have read about 10 pieces by credible legal scholars that say Cruz is NBC, and zero that say he is not - unless you take Tribe's comment that SCOTUS will use originalism as saying that Cruz is not NBC.
Oh, there is one piece that is a little softer in support of Cruz's position. Make it 9 out of 10 are dead-sure Cruz is NBC. Citizen at birth = NBC, simple as that.
Full disclosure, I find the consensus to be in error, but I'm not viewed as a competent legal scholar.
Damn, you’re right. That’s just the distinction they’d make.
Well, there’s still four of them who would find a way to rule anybody is an NBC, to show their Party’s love for immigrants...
I just checked and it was the Democrats including Obama who sponsored the resolution for McCain. I don’t who would do the same for Cruz.
So let's elect a Northeastern liberal crony capitalist who hates Constitutional conservatives and Constitutional conservatism.
The lack of common sense among Trumpies used to surprise me. Now I think it's a requirement.
Cruz's mother was born in Delaware, making Cruz a citizen at birth. That should not be too hard for people to understand.
But if the media declines to report on simple qualifying facts and instead makes smoke, a lot of people will be confused. That's the game. Right now the liberals are arguing that if Maria from Mexico sneaks across the border to drop her baby in a San Diego hospital, that kid is a natural born citizen. The left will go to the mats to defend this.
The left will also say Cruz's birth in Calgary is disqualifying, but will dodge the implication that every child born overseas to an American serviceman, a business expat on a five year assignment in Tokyo or Frankfurt, a State Department kid born in Outer Camelstan, of a missionary's kid born in Borneo are all disqualified. Which is all nonsense.
Cruz wins this issue if it is understood. He will lose if the media succeeds in muddying the water. The campaign should perhaps find half a dozen exemplary Americans born abroad to do adds stating their place of birth while their parents were working or serving abroad, and demanding to know why the liberals don't think they are real Americans.
Sponsored by McCaskill, cosponsored by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT], Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL], Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK], Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY], and Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA].
Passed the senate unanimously.
S.Res.511 - 110th Congress (2007-2008): A resolution recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.
A state SOS can make an actionable case by finding a candidate ineligible. Then the candidate could challenge that in court.
Cruz. But he will not get the nomination and if he did, could he get him/her through the Senate with all his "friends" there.
To balance any concerns I may have with Trump in this regard he has stated he likes Thomas and thinks he is "strong and consistent" as regards his statements about Scalia, admmitedly Trump was pandering to Blacks but he knows full well Scalia is a strong judge. Also Trump thinks Roberts is "disgraceful."
I KNOW what kind of judges Hillary will send to the courts and with what Trump has stated I have cause to hope he will do better.
Politicians change their stripes with public pressure, McConnell could, in theory, be pressured to reverse. But the condition now is fuggedaboudit.
Nice to see you are such an unbiased and dispassionate dispenser of the the truth, St. Tom.
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