A talk radio host asked Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife in an interview recently whether she is “sleeping with an immigrant.”
The tongue-in-cheek moment came in reference to GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s many recent questions about the natural-born status of the Texas senator.
“Would you please respond to the fact of whether you’re sleeping with a, uh, uh, uh, uh, an immigrant?” 1400 AM KVFD’s Mike Devine asked.
Heidi Cruz responded with a laugh, saying, “There was a funny post on the Internet with the Canadians saying, ‘Don’t worry he’s 100 percent American,’ so I think that can partly settle the question. But this is not hotly contested in the law. There a few liberal professors out there who are trying to stir this up, but there is a definition of a natural-born citizen, and Ted fits that definition. He was born to an American mother in a foreign country.”
“There have been a number of other people who have run for president that had the exact same circumstance,” she added. “Romney’s father ran for president, he was in Mexico on a ranch in Mexico. McCain was born in Panama and not on the base. Not on the American base in Panama. He was born in a hospital in Panama City. He ran for president.”
The radio interview took place last week, but only caught the attention of national media after BuzzFeed acquired a copy of the audio.
Cruz concluded by saying the issue about whether the senator is eligible to run for president is a non-starter.
“This will not be a hotly debated issue. There’s a definition. It’s stated in the Constitution you’re eligible if you’re a natural-born citizen,” she said. “There is a definition of a natural-born citizen. There is no case here.”
Trump has gone hard after Cruz over the fact he was born in Calgary, Canada, and the billionaire businessman has made the senator’s former dual-citizenship with America’s northern neighbor a big talking point on the campaign trail.
“It’s time for Ted Cruz to either settle his problem with the fact that he was born in Canada and was a citizen of Canada, or get out of race,” Trump said on social media Monday morning.
Earlier, in an interview on My Fox New York, Trump said of the issue, “It’s a hurdle. Somebody could certainly look at it very seriously.”
“He was born in Canada. If you know and when we all studied our history lessons, you are supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts will rule on this,” he added.
