Get ready for a long slog to the GOP nomination

Published January 18, 2016 2:56pm ET



When then Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed potential future president and key Revolutionary figure Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the careers of both men were over. Now another “big guy” New Yorker — as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush referred to Donald Trump on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — is taking aim at another would-be president who was born abroad, Ted Cruz. Unlike Cruz, who entered the world in Canada, Hamilton was born to a single mom on the island of Nevis.

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