Remember this thread?
I don’t remember this one specifically, but I participated in a lot of threads arguing on behalf of Cruz. For the most part, I fought hard for Cruz’s acceptability, and I did not distinguish, iirc, between NBC and citizen at birth.
I STILL argue for the legitimacy of Cruz’s run based on our current laws. They seem to equate ‘citizen at birth’ with ‘natural born citizen’ and most legal people say that a challenge to his status would fail...if it would even be heard.
However, that is different that saying that NBC cannot be challenged in court, particularly at the state level, and that a name could be left off of a state ballot by order of a state court. Since the election is state by state, that wouldn’t matter for Cruz in solid red states like Calif and NY. Just one purple state, especially Ohio or Florida, doing so would spell defeat. The Ohio Supreme Court is fairly republican. I don’t know about Florida. If Virginia is a ‘must-win’ purple state, then that could be crucial. The same with North Carolina.
But that is different