Of course not, they were both doing official duty for the United States. The problem is El Señor Cruz was not.
Answer me this: if he is ineligible, why is his name being certified by the secretary of states of all the states his name is appearing on? Don’t you think THEY would do a little bit of vetting on the issue...?
I am not aware that he has been up to this point and I am also not aware that any official challenge has been files or decided in every state.
I am not making this up out of whole cloth. Follow this link:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president
This short excerpt explains your mistake about the the naturalization act of 1790.
Third, Katyal and Clement put much weight on the first U.S. naturalization statute, enacted in 1790. Because it contains the phrase "natural born," they infer that such citizens must include children born abroad to American parents. The first Congress, however, had no such intent. The debates on the matter reveal that the congressmen were aware that such children were not citizens and had to be naturalized; hence, Congress enacted a statute to provide for them. Moreover, that statute did not say the children were natural born, only that they should "be considered as" such. Finally, as soon as Madison, then a member of Congress, was assigned to redraft the statute in 1795, he deleted the phrase "natural born," and it has never reappeared in a naturalization statute.
Hope this helps. I only point this out because you can have no hope of personally attempting to convince every American citizen of your argument. My passion all my life was US Presidents. I even know arcane facts, like Grover Cleveland's wife who he married in the White House was named Frances Folsom. You have zero hope of convincing me and I am not the only one.
I heard a news analysis last night that a high voter turnout would favor Trump in Iowa, but a low turnout would favor Cruz. Perhaps the calculation is that this would so turn off voters that they would stay home on Monday. Cruz fanatics would go anyway.