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    United States Senator from Texas since 2013

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  1. Mar 24, 2015 · FULL ANSWER. Sen. Ted Cruz announced on March 23 that he will seek the Republican nomination to be president of the United States in 2016. But, as some readers were quick to point out, Cruz...

    • What Does 'Natural Born Citizen' Mean?
    • Presidential Candidacies That Have Been Questioned
    • Can Ted Cruz Run For President?

    As one of the requirements to serve as president, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution states only that the president must be a “natural born Citizen” of the United States. Unfortunately, the Constitution fails to expand on the exact definition of “natural born Citizen.” Some people and politicians, usually members of the opposing political pa...

    When Sen. John McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, the Canal Zone was still a U.S. territory and both of his parents were U.S. citizens, thus legitimizing his 2008 presidential run. In 1964, the candidacy of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater was questioned. While he was born in Arizona ...

    Should Ted Cruz be nominated, the “natural born citizen” issue will certainly be debated again with great gusto. Some lawsuits may even be filed in attempts to block him from running. However, given the historical failure of past “natural born citizen” challenges, and the growing consensus among constitutional scholars that a person born abroad, bu...

    • Robert Longley
  2. Mar 26, 2015 · Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada, eligible to run for president? (Updated) National. By Steve Contorno March 26, 2015. For most of his presidential campaign and much of his presidency,...

  3. The 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, the junior United States senator from Texas, was announced on March 23, 2015. He was a candidate for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination and won the second-most state contests and delegates. Cruz themed his campaign around being an outsider and a strict conservative.

  4. Jan 8, 2016 · Texas Sen. Rafael Edward “TedCruz was born in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 22, 1970, the son of Eleanor Darragh, from Wilmington, Del., and Rafael Cruz, a native of Cuba. If he’s elected...

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  5. May 17, 2024 · Ted Cruz, American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and began his first term representing Texas in 2013. He sought the Republican Party nomination for president in 2016. Before entering politics, Cruz worked as a lawyer.

  6. Mar 31, 2016 · – Excerpt from a legal brief filed in a federal trial court in Houston by lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, challenging the courts’ power to bar him from the presidential election ballot because he was born in Canada; his mother was a private U.S. citizen.

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