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Rafael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to Eleanor Elizabeth (née Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Cruz. Cruz's mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
May 17, 2024 · Ted’s mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, was a native of Delaware. When he was born in 1970, the family was living in Alberta, Canada, where his parents worked in the oil industry. Because he was born to an American mother in Canada, Cruz became a dual U.S.–Canadian citizen.
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 Is Ted Cruz’s background?
- So Is He Eligible to Run For President?
- How Are Politicians reacting?
- How Might The Conversation Affect His Bid?
Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1970 to Rafael Bienvenido Cruz and Eleanor Darragh. His father was born in Cuba and was not a US citizen at the time of Cruz’s birth. But his mother, Eleanor, was an American, born in Delaware, who never gave up her US citizenship. According to Cruz’s campaign, she lived in Canada under a work permit and at no p...
Among the qualifications to run for president of the United States is the requirement that a candidate must be a “natural born Citizen”. Most legal experts have interpreted that to be anyone who is a citizen at birth and who did not need to undergo a naturalization process to obtain citizenship – a definition under which Cruz would qualify. In a Ha...
At least some of Cruz’s Republican opponents, such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Florida senator Marco Rubio, have dismissed the notion that he is ineligible. But not everyone has been as willing to come to Cruz’s defense. Iowa’s Republican governor, Terry Branstad, sparked a new round of headlines on Monday by deeming the eligibility que...
Polling continues to show Cruz running neck-and-neck with Trump in Iowa, and there is little indication the birthplace chatter will affect his standing. Reporters who followed the senator on a six-day, 28-county swing through the state last week said voters did not seem concerned with Cruz’s eligibility. But if Trump continues to amplify the subjec...
- Sabrina Siddiqui
Mar 26, 2015 · Cruz — full name: Rafael Edward Cruz — was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1970. His family was living there because his father was working for the oil industry at the time. They moved when he was...
Mar 24, 2015 · Those three little words -- "natural born citizen" -- do present what Cruz’s detractors see as his problem: if he was born in Canada, they ask, then how could he be a “natural born”...
Jan 8, 2016 · Texas Sen. Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz 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...
