The fact of the matter is that he is constitutionally disqualified. It isn't the publicity or uncertainty that gets him (although it does erode his votes), it is the law that gets him for certain.
He emphatically stands on the principle that his MOTHER conferred his American citizenship to him. What he won’t address is the fact that his FATHER also conferred citizenship to him: CUBAN citizenship.
Canada also conferred citizenship to him at his birth in that country.
Cruz can’t possibly, by anyone’s definition, be a Natural Born Citizen of the USA.
And as a Constitutional authority . . he should have known that first-hand.
I am still waiting to see his paperwork on when his MOTHER officially filed his ‘supposed’ American citizenship with the Canadian authorities. Considering Cruz has been a Canadian citizen until just mere MONTHS ago . . I seriously doubt she filed that paperwork before he turned 18 years old. Maybe that’s why he won’t show it.
Maybe so. But as the article notes, there is not a consensus. (I’ve read all your posts; they are excellent, and you “might” be right...but the political reality is that there is not a consensus, and therefore, it is really impossible to say that the issue is settled at the moment). In my non-freerepublic life, I have spent much of this week trying to figure out how to respond to an administrative body which did something it had no authority to do under existing legislation. The law was seemingly settled...then...they became an aggressor, and now the law is suddenly unsettled....The point being: there is chaos around this issue of NBC. I think your arguments are better; but there is significant momentum on Cruz’s side as well. The issue isn’t settled. But politically, how this plays out is that Cruz is history.
And I don’t think that is a desirable outcome. In fact I think it’s like a Greek tragedy. But it is what it is.