Trump would not have even raised this issue if Cruz hadn’t started rising in the polls.
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It is irrational to even spend time talking about a candidate who is foreign born, until they rise in the polls.
After all, As of January 13, 2016, a total of 1,491 candidates had filed a Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission.
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2016
Nice try. But Trump publicly stated that he believed Cruz was qualified to run for president and that he came to that conclusion after consulting his “best in the world” lawyers.