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awake

(3,226 posts)
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 08:10 PM Jan 2016

"Trump says Cruz’s Canadian birth could be ‘very precarious’ for GOP"

"LOWELL, Mass. — Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issue that could make the senator from Texas vulnerable if he became the Republican presidential nominee.

“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem,” Trump said when asked about the topic. “It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.”

Trump added: “I’d hate to see something like that get in his way. But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-cruzs-canadian-birth-could-be-very-precarious-for-gop/2016/01/05/5ce69764-b3f8-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html

The Birther is back

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. These assholes screamed Birth Certificate for years, let them chew on this for a while
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 08:19 PM
Jan 2016

This guy actually was born outside the country.

I don't give a shit but I just want them to have their hypocrisy shoved in their faces for a bit.

Johonny

(20,796 posts)
11. I'm not sure the way you learn lessons is for the media to promote you
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 11:05 PM
Jan 2016

and your agenda. He lost nothing from being a birther so what lesson could he have learn?

GOP voters don't do lessons, they do trying the same thing over and over again and wondering why it never works out.

world wide wally

(21,733 posts)
4. So, cruz's mother was American. Obama's mother was American
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 08:31 PM
Jan 2016

Cruz's father was Cuban.
Obama's father was Kenyan.
Cruz was born in Canada.
Obama was born in Hawaii. But what would the difference be if he was born in Kenya?
If Cruz could be President, what problem would anyone have with Obama?
Couldn't be color because they all say they aren't racist.
I don't get it.

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