TyroneSlothrop
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Questions about Cruz's eligibility have everything to do with interpretation of the law; the questions about Obama's eligibility had everything to do with a dispute over the underlying facts — more specifically, conspiracy theories about whether the president was actually born in the United States, as he claimed, and whether he somehow forged a birth certificate that said he was born in Hawaii.
In Cruz's case, nobody is disputing the underlying facts of the case — that Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and a mother who was a United States citizen. As we wrote back in March (2013), that makes him a U.S. citizen himself, but it's not 100 percent clear that that is the same thing as a "natural born citizen" — the requirement for becoming president.
Everything you need to know about the Ted Cruz birther movement - The Washington Post
In Cruz's case, nobody is disputing the underlying facts of the case — that Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and a mother who was a United States citizen. As we wrote back in March (2013), that makes him a U.S. citizen himself, but it's not 100 percent clear that that is the same thing as a "natural born citizen" — the requirement for becoming president.
Everything you need to know about the Ted Cruz birther movement - The Washington Post