Trump agrees with Heidi Cruz: Ted is an immigrant … from Canada

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump agreed with Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi on Sunday that the Texas senator is an immigrant. But, Trump explained, that was due to Cruz’s Canadian birth, not his parents’ escape from Cuba before he was born.

“She said ‘my husband’s an immigrant’ and that’s what I’ve been been saying except a lot of people — I think she was trying to … put a Latino turn on it,” Trump told the crowd in Fort Wayne, Ind. “He was born in Canada, folks.”

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