Posted on 01/12/2016 7:36:29 PM PST by Isara
Ted Cruz on Tuesday suggested attacks from Republican presidential rival Donald Trump are being promoted by allies of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Trump has for two weeks repeated questions about Cruz's birthplace and whether he is eligible to be president.
Cruz responded by suggesting Democrats are "very eager" to support those questions in an effort to boost Trump toward winning the nomination.
"It's more than a little strange to see Donald relying on ... a liberal left-wing judicial activist Harvard law professor who is a huge Hillary supporter. It starts to make you think, gosh, why are Hillary's strongest supporters backing Donald Trump?" Cruz said in video broadcast by MSNBC.
"You know, the past couple of elections, we saw the Democrats thrilled that they got the nominee that they wanted to run against in the general election. And it seems that the Hillary folks are very eager to support Donald Trump and the attacks that are being tossed my direction," Cruz added.
Trump on Monday cited liberal law professor Laurence Tribe, who has called the issue of Cruz's White House eligibility "unsettled."
"Ted Cruz has a problem. Because the question is: Is he an actual born citizen?" Trump asked at a rally.
Cruz has mostly brushed off questions about his eligibility. He was born in Canada to an American mother, a scenario most legal experts have agreed meets the Constitution's requirement to be a "natural born citizen." But some say the question remains unsettled because the Supreme Court has never ruled on it.
On Tuesday, Cruz also cited a defense by Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who last week noted that his father, George, was born to American parents in Mexico yet ran for president.
"I understand why my opponents are throwing more and more attacks," Cruz told reporters, suggesting his rivals were targeting him because they are "dismayed" with his top-tier status in the race.
Cruz just did and Trump hasn’t ever !
Um Mr. Cruz your not supposed to ask that question. It might make some people mad.
The loons! The loons! - Katherine Hepburn, On Golden Pond
Yeah I bet he has a stash of Shania Twain CD’s too!
This post is a total lie.
Cruz's father did NOT become an American Citizen until 2005 !
The law states that BOTH parents MUST be American citizens at the time of the child's birth, for said child to be a NBC !
That's a very lawyerly construction of what might be no more complicated than a legitimate question.
Impugning those asking it simply can not take the place of a judicial decree.
Cruz isn’t eligible to run and neither is Jindal nor Rubio!
Completely FALSE prop and many months old. It is biased, utterly incorrect, and just nonsense.
Bigot Democrat Union Thugs want Trump’s Deportation force now!
Yes and also Dershowitz!
. Cruz & Kennedy celebrate legal third world immigrants. Trumps disparages them to lure the union thugs to his side.
You are foolish. Not because you support Cruz.
But because you seem to support Cruz getting a pass.
If Cruz is the nominee, the RATs will jump all over this Birther issue
more aggressive than you can imagine. A nightmare.
Yes, Cruz is now being tested. As he should be.
You and others fail to understand that this is Cruz’s opportunity
to develop a strategy to handle this Birther issue now.
So, if he is the nominee, he will have found the right response
to deal with it.
Those like you are so blinded by your hatred of Trump,
that you don’t even understand this fact.
No, but avoiding a decapitation attack by democrats AFTER nomination, is.
These are the same people who crucified GHWB for "read my lips" IMMEDIATELY after goading him into breaking that pledge.
It’s racial. Democrats cant believe their affirmative action Obama got picked on over a totally legitimate birth issue.
Now they want payback and Cruz is the best of the candidates to pick on.
Lol, Ted’s erecting the biggest straw man so far of this campaign season. And he’s really going to damage the good opinion many Trump supporters had of him initially.
Canadians call that dollar a “loonie”, because of the bird (Loon) on the back.
“Why would Trump be the easiest to beat when he has double the poll numbers of the closest competitor?”
Well, my very conservative wife and very conservative older daughter (former USMC) hate Trump. Two of the guys I talked to at church, also conservative, are uncertain they could vote for Trump in the general.
I’d vote Trump over Hillary in a heartbeat, but I wouldn’t expect much if he wins. And I can see how he might well lose a general election. There are a number of conservatives who find him almost as repulsive as Hillary, and who might sit out the election.
No polling numbers there, just talking with some folks I know who voted GWB, McCain and Romney...but who may pass on Trump.
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